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October 31, 2004
dooce, carpet in the kitchen, Halloween
A quick entry before I leave to run 15 miles. Yes. I think I may die, but I have to make up for those days I missed this week. UPDATE: We only made it 13 miles. My feet felt like they were going to fall off. Actually, it felt as though my feet HAD fallen off and I was running on bloody stumps.
First, I'd like to give a shout out to dooce, a site that will have its place on my blogroll once I do the next update. This chick is a riot, a mom, and talks of constipation with reckless abandon (after my own heart, there).
For those of you who read this blog from the beginning (which was probably none of you), you'll know that its original title was "Carpet in the Kitchen." Indeed, my house *had* carpet in the kitchen, and I felt as though my life followed that idea quite literally: highly impractical, a bad idea all around, completely impossible to clean or maintain, and a HUGE pain the ass in general.
Well, for all of my bitching here (and elsewhere) about the worthless men that share this house with me (husband, brother), they both redeemed themselves fabulously yesterday as they proceeded to yank out that damned carpet.
It was no small task, as the crap has been in there for 50 years. It was this nasty carpet-and-pad-in-one shit that, since it had been in a F*@%ing kitchen, was exposed to various liquids over the years (I can attest to the liquids from this past year only: water, milk, apple cider, Juicy Juice, pickled beet juice, cat piss, bleach, vinegar, etc). Such liquids of course do not DRY or EVAPORATE, but instead soak into the carpet padding junk, making the padding ahere all the more stubbornly to the underfloor.
So, Brian, peeling the crap up, Tucker using a flat shovel (sharpened with a grinder) to scrape the extra padding up off the underfloor, and some kids watching with interest:
Posted by mryonker at October 31, 2004 07:53 AM
Comments
Ok, wow, I am impressed. Carpet in the kitchen?!?!? Genius. Removing it does look sorta fun, though, in a pain-in-the-ass kinda way.
Posted by: bitchphd at October 31, 2004 11:00 AM
I have done that before--ugh. Our entire house back in Arkansas had 50 year old carpet on it. We had to scrape the padding off--it was red and most of it distintegrated the minute you touched it. It was liberating in a way though.
Posted by: Laura at October 31, 2004 02:29 PM