Tile success, weekend of work, stuff

The tile part II got off to a dubious start. Sometimes my thought process amazes me. On Friday after work, I decided to go pick up a manual floor scraping tool to remove the old vinyl flooring from the utility room in preparation for laying ceramic tile in there. I figured it is a much smaller area so surely I don’t need to rent the power stripper to get the job done. HA. After about a half hour of sweaty , back busting work I may have gotten about 3 square feet clear. Screw that. I was at Home Depot at 7:30 am Saturday morning plunking down the rental fee on the power stripper again. Got it home, an hour later I had the entire room done. Lesson learned, when a power tool is an option, always take that option. Luckily, Home Depot took back the manual scraper.

The tiling went very well in comparison to the first go round. Our experience showed as we knocked out the room on Saturday and grouted it on Sunday with very little fireworks. The room was a simple rectangle, much smaller and a smoother subfloor, all of which contributed to the ease of installation. All we have to do is wet cure it for 3 days, seal the grout and we are done. The 2 bathrooms are left to do but there is no pressure to get those done anytime soon. The utility room is directly connected to the kitchen so it looked dumb to have the cermamic in the kitchen and vinyl in the other. Pics to follow. Since the utility room is normally the home to the washer, dryer and cat litter we have some displacement issues currently. The cat litter lives in my mom’s bathroom right now, I’m sure she is less than thrilled with that.

In between all the tile work, I helped my buddy load his moving truck Sunday afternoon. He and his wife are moving to Colorado today. What a change from Florida. They are very excited. I’m sad to see them go. They were one of the very few couples that we have done anything socially with down here. We have not made many friends in the 3 years since we have moved to Florida. We are far from social butterflies and my volleyball playing has been scaled way back which is how I made a lot of friends up north. Hopefully it will change.

Speaking of social butterflies, we DID go out Saturday night to a downtown hip place called Yabba’s with some people from Alison’s work. Things were ok but eventually the night turned into one of Alison’s coworker friends giving me shit about various things, none of which made sense. She was drinking which exagerrated her normally loud and obtrusive personality. Eventually I started to return the smart comments and by the end of the evening she was calling me a jackass. Annoying woman.