Looping the Hen

Crap, I'm nesting again...

Every few months I go through a phase of tossing out old junk (or Ebaying it, if it is good old junk) I've been living with for sometimes 20 years. It's pretty amazing I even have any junk left, but it seems to breed when confined to dark closets or dingy storage rooms. But now I've decided it's condo improvement time; and for those who know me know that is something I dread with an inhuman horror of the Lovecraftian variety. Still, one gets to a point where they just can't take it anymore!

I continue to curse the painter who screwed up my floors (Not that I would have forced even my old floors upon some random Eqyption Pharoah lying dead in his 3000 year old tomb), wishing upon him boils and sores! Well, no, I don't really wish upon him boils and sores, but he still makes me mad! Thus, I am on the Great Hardwood Floor Hunt to replace my kitchen and dining room laminate. I remember the last time I checked into them they run anywhere from $12-$30/square foot. (Although I'm hoping more toward the $12/foot range) I'm lucky that I don't actually have a lot of square footage there, maybe 250-300 or so.

It was either that or all the cabinets and countertop, but I'm not sure what goes into all that (nor am I certain of my taste), so I'll stick with something I can probably manage without gouging my eyes out in some Oedipul rage. (I will also probably get another two or three bookshelves so I can put out the rest of my books and knick-knacks.)

I sense many epic battles ahead with the forces of Lowe's, Home Depot, and Floors N' More. More later!