Kelly Gibbons, artist and writer, about me

Tuesday, April 27, 2004

I have been so busy that I haven't made time to post. I wish I could say I was busy writing or painting and so busy with assignments, stories or projects that blogging is the last thing I think of. That's not the case.

I am working on one art project and I do have that class, but I seem to find every excuse in the world not to write or paint. Yesterday my excuse was ripping up the carpet.

Yes, we are re-doing the living room, and yes, at some point I'm sure it needed to be done, but now I have created more work for myself and in the process something else to keep me away from creating. In my defense, I have become great at creating messes!

Ripping up the carpet sounded like a great idea because there are hardwood floors under it. Now that I've ripped it up I remember why we got carpet in the first place. The hardwood floors are probably sixty years old. They are thin pine floors and the years of neglect have turned the stain I a golden orange color and they are marred with stains, nicks and chips. At some point I'm sure either us or the previous owners decided that it didn't matter what was done to them because the assumption was they would remain covered. It looks like we told the carpet guys this too because there is a cut line that runs the entire width of the living room. I definitely have my work cut out for me.

I did purchase an area rug before I ripped up the carpet and thought that would be sufficient to cover the bad spots. It doesn't even come close because the bad spots are so spread apart. I need a much larger one and that means a much larger price tag. I repeat again: there was a reason we bought wall to wall carpet.

My only solutions at the moment are to refinish the floor or convince one of the million or so home improvement shows to come on over and give my floors a makeover. (I would offer to let them do the whole room, but I already painted and my husband built a beautiful widow seat and bookcases so it's only the floor that needs to be done. If that's a problem, they can pick many other full rooms to re-do and throw in the living room floors as a bonus). You would think with the amount of these shows they would be canvassing neighborhoods looking for situations like mine.

Since my chances of this happening rank right up there with winning the lottery and being struck by lightening it looks like the only paper I'll be using for a few days (wishful thinking there of course)* is sand paper.

*if there were a scale for home improvement projects one hour=one week at least in my house!

posted by Kelly @ 4/27/2004 06:56:00 AM

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