At first the rest of the passengers and I who were waiting to get off the plane just stood there in stunned silence. We all started glancing at each other. A woman near me started snickering. I looked at her and said, "It sounds like a dying cat!"
The people around us started laughing. Finally the doors opened and we were able to escape the moaning and screeching. As I walked past a flight attendant I commented, "This is the worst song ever."
She wrinkled her nose and flatly replied, "Welcome to our world."
I grabbed my bag off the carousel and wheeled it out to the curb where Tina was waiting for me. I tossed my bags in the backseat, and went home where Tina surprised me with this:
Tina pulled up the carpeting in the master bedroom and started laying hardwood floors while I was gone. We had been talking about doing this for quite a while because no matter how much we vacuum, the carpets hold onto the cat dander, wreaking havoc on my allergies. I was dreading removing the carpets because I was afraid of how sick I would get by all the dust that would get kicked up.
Tina said the dust in the carpets was, in fact, pretty bad. So I was extremely grateful to her.
Saturday and Sunday we put down the rest of the flooring...
...and here is the finished product:
The next step is to put in new baseboards and thresholds. But I love it! I can already breathe so much better in there and it just looks so much nicer. I have the best girlfriend! I would never have put down flooring myself. I would have suffered with the carpeting until years later when I had enough money to pay someone to do it for me.
In other news, I'm not a fan of the snow. I spent yesterday's lunch time shoveling. And poor Mia begged me to take her outside, but I had too much work to do. Finally she resigned herself to the back of the couch and wouldn't look at me. I just had to take a picture of Her Majesty's aloof self:
As bratty as she can be, she's still adorable!
And she got over herself enough to share the basket with her sister for naptime:
So sweet!
So that's that! Back to work...
