Things I Have Learned

Things I have learned this week:

• Spring Break is for going to Las Vegas or St. George or somewhere else warm.  That's it.  That is the only acceptable activity.  
• Never do major home remodeling over Spring Break.  If I had it to do over again, I would wait for summer of 2014.  
• If you think your kids will help you with major home remodeling, think again.  Because they will not.  
• I am a laid back person.  I am more much more productive if I have a schedule, but I usually love to just kick back and go with the flow.  Not when my house is torn apart.  I'm anxious and on-edge.  I can't just sit down and read a book or watch a movie or read the newspaper and write scathing letters to the editor in my head.  I can't get any other sort of project done, like go dig in the flower beds or organize the junk drawer, when I have down time.  I can't do anything when I have workers in my house.  Waiting for them to come this morning, I just couldn't do anything but wander around and wait for them to come.  
• I can do hard things, like pull up subfloor, but I don't want to anymore.  I have bruises and cuts all over my body.  I am hoping I regain all of the sensation in my pinky at some point. 
• Flooring guys have a great schedule.  At least mine do.  I called yesterday to ask when I could expect them to show up, and the receptionist said, "He starts his jobs between 9:30 and 12:00."   Why can't my job be like that?  "Mrs. Chamberlain usually teaches sophomore English between 9:30 and noon.  So, you can just be hanging around until she decides to show up."  
• Eating out is fun, unless you are eating out because your kitchen doesn't exist, and you need something quick so you can get back to the job you are doing, and you look like a dusty, filthy hobo so you don't want to go anywhere good. Then eating out is yuck.