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<\/a><\/p>\nI’ll be the first to admit to being super duper tired.\u00a0 This kid’s tail was dragging.\u00a0 My ultra training that had started last July was telling on me.\u00a0 I flat out didn’t have anything else to give.\u00a0 I’d never admit that out loud~that’s just between you and me, okay?<\/p>\n
Leading up to this week of rest, I was sleeping 12 hours every night.\u00a0 I’d lay my head on my pillow and BOOM!\u00a0 I was out.\u00a0 MFH (My Favorite Husband) was amazing.\u00a0 He’d get up during the night if the dog needed out so I could rest.\u00a0 He knew how tired I was.\u00a0 He’d empty the dishwasher because my brain would just shut down and I’d forget to do the easiest tasks around the house.<\/p>\n I. Was. Fried.<\/p>\n Last week, I slept and slept and slept.\u00a0 I was wonderful!!!<\/p>\n Then around Wednesday afternoon, my brain went, “Ka~Pow!”\u00a0 The fog lifted.\u00a0 I felt alive again!<\/p>\n How about that!<\/p>\n Then, the fidgets set in.<\/p>\n I needed something to do.\u00a0 Well, I needed something to do besides clean house.\u00a0 LOL!!!\u00a0 ANYTHING but clean the house.\u00a0 I think I might just hire a bulldozer to come in and shovel out the house.\u00a0 Too many months of high mileage have taken a toll on my humble abode but we’ll just leave that subject alone for right now.<\/p>\n MFH and I have been discussing the carpeting in our house for a few years.<\/p>\n We purchased our house, online, sight unseen back in 2009.\u00a0 It was a HUD home.\u00a0 We placed an offer on it and “they” accepted our offer!\u00a0 It’s not bad as far as houses go and little by little we’ve been fixing it up.\u00a0 It’s a great DIY project!<\/p>\n The thing we’ve kept putting off is the carpeting.<\/p>\n I’m not a carpeting fan.\u00a0 Our house in Colorado, we ripped up the carpeting and put in hardwood floors.\u00a0 I loved the flooring in that house!\u00a0 We did the work ourselves.\u00a0 I ripped up the carpeting and MFH put down the oak floorboards.\u00a0 It looked great!<\/p>\n We rented a weird hammer thingy *technical term* that would put the funny shaped nails in at the angle they needed.<\/p>\n By the time we finished the floor, MFH was a pro with that gizmo.\u00a0 I was hopeless with it but MFH did great!<\/p>\n Here, we have a concrete slab so the weird hammer thingy won’t work.\u00a0 You have to do some fancy gluing process that, quite frankly, is out of our DIY league.\u00a0 The hardwood flooring became cost prohibitive so we searched for different options.<\/p>\n We settled on stained concrete.\u00a0 Stained concrete can be very pretty!!!\u00a0 I like the results better than painted concrete.\u00a0 It’s also tons cooler in our hot\/humid Mississippi weather.<\/p>\n Why am I telling you all about the flooring in our house?<\/p>\n Well, remember I mentioned I got the fidgets?\u00a0 Thursday morning, I decided the time had come.\u00a0 I knew a new training program was starting up today and that last week would probably be the only time I’d have the energy to rip up our nasty carpeting sooooooo….<\/p>\n I did exactly that!<\/p>\n Thursday and Friday I spent those two days ripping up carpeting and carpet padding.\u00a0 I’d rip up medium-ish pieces.\u00a0 If I got too big of a section of carpet, it was too heavy for me to carry out to the road.<\/p>\n I’d cut up carpet sections and haul it outdoors then I’d rip up the padding and take it out, too.\u00a0 I’d have to grab the broom and sweep up an incredible amount of dirt.\u00a0 Carpeting is a huge dirt trap!!!<\/p>\n I found loose change in the middle of my living room underneath the carpet padding along with McDonald’s napkins! I guess they were in too big a hurry to pick up their stuff before they laid the carpet? Yuck!<\/p>\n Of course I had lots of help from my #PetitePooch, Tess.\u00a0 Can’t beat quality help like that!<\/p>\n Now, we’re down to bare concrete floors.\u00a0 Yes, there’s some cracks and paint splotches but even with all of that it looks tons better (IMO) than that nasty, stained and loose carpet.<\/p>\n YAY for no more carpet!<\/p>\n Also, YAY for training starting up again today!!!\u00a0 It felt awesome to get out on our sunny Monday morning for a few miles!<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Wink-gif.gif\")
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