I'm usually the kind of person who will not allow upgrades until I absolutely have to because all too often it comes with changes that I don't like, I tend to not appreciate change. So, with this upgrade that was supposed to be a change back to what I'm used to, I decided I'd go for it. My computer ran the upgrade, all was well and good until I realized that it got rid of the scroll-ability (yeah, not really a word, but I don't know what else to call it) on my touchpad! Do you know how annoying it is to try to use the interwebz without scrolling capabilities?! Awfulness. I should have just stuck with my non-upgrading habits.
So I spent 2 days suffering, unable to scroll, until some googling, and random clicking (my husband LOVES when I do things with the computer beyond general browsing) I somehow fixed it! FIXED IT! Myself! Wheee! That was my win for last week and it was definitely noteworthy enough to share.
In other news, Molly and I hit up a consignment sale and she was the only 2-year-old there actively shopping. I'm talking, browsing through the racks the whole time and picking out her own clothes and approving/disapproving my picks. This girl is trouble when it comes to clothes!
She's already very particular about what she wears from her hair, to her outfit, to her shoes and other accessories. I am not used to dealing with this as Jack still barely cares what he wears. Most days he throws on whatever, only rarely does he have a request and I can easily talk him out of it if necessary. His only real request is that as many of his shirts have vehicles on them as possible.
We finally accomplished some more progress on the floor! We're *so close* to being done. We just have to finish up installing the quarter round, right now we probably have like 20% of it done? Maybe less. And we still have to deal with the bathroom. Laying the flooring will be easy peasy, how much work it is overall is going to depend a lot on how tearing out the old flooring goes. ::fingers crossed:: But for now, I have a whole floor down and that's enough to leave me feeling pretty happy after dealing with having only a partial floor for the last few weeks.
I busted out the Old English Scratch Cover, which is magic in a bottle, to fix up our existing baseboards. I first discovered this bottle of awesome when we were getting our old house ready to sell. It's some sort of wood oil/polish stuff that you rub on with a cloth and then buff off and I'm telling you it is magical!
I think I spent like $7-$8 on the bottle at Lowe's and you only use a little bit at a time and it makes wood with shallow scratches look like new. Well, maybe not BRAND new, but very much improved. It hides some scratches completely and well camouflages others. We laid down this nice floor and it only highlighted the fact that the baseboards were all dinged up. Well, Scratch Cover to the rescue! They look so much better.
I thought for half a second about putting new baseboards down, but then I watched Jack slam a truck into the old, scratched up baseboards and was reminded that spending time/money/effort on new ones would only make me sad when they got beat up by little kids and their toys. I'm happy with how they look now. As you can see, we still have quarter round to install in this area, that's why there's a seam along the edge. Sooooon!
Menu for the week:
Sunday: Grilled Burgers with Baked Sweet Potato Fries
Monday: Chicken Apple Cranberry Salad with Honey-Balsamic Vinaigrette
Tuesday: Sweet Potato Enchiladas with Guacamole
Wednesday: Roasted Chicken with Mashed Potatoes and Carrots
Thursday: Leftovers
Friday & Saturday: Out
I'm linked at Menu Plan Monday hosted by OrgJunkie.com
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