The floor installation was finished last evening. I’ve spent more than 24 hours vacuuming up all the dust. Man, they created a lot of dust. I had to change the AC filter. It was clogged with dust. I got almost all the furniture put back on my own and my wonderful boyfriend came over to help me with the heavy pieces and then we had lunch. So the house is back to normal for a few weeks. Once the boyfriend leaves for his vacation, I’ll be painting the living room, dining room, and hallway. Here’s what the living room looks like now with the new floors and the new carpet.

Right now as I type this my laminate floors are being installed in my living room, dining room, and hallway. So far they look really good. The process is moving along a little faster than I thought it would. Of course this could slow down once they get to the hall way and they have to make a lot of cuts. Here's a picture.

Next week I’m getting laminate floors installed in my living room, dining room and down the hallway to the bedrooms. Since I’m in a high rise condo, I have to have 70% of my floors covered with sound deadening material. Because of this, I ordered some carpets from Pottery Barn. They arrived today. I told Homer about this and he says I have to post pictures of the carpets I selected. I might have spent too much on them. Oh well, you only live once. Here are pictures of the carpets I selected. Of course I stole them from the Pottery Barn website. The one on the left will be in the dining room and the one on the right will be in the living room. Once the floors are done and the carpets are down I’ll take a picture.

I can not tell you how sick I am of hearing about Paris Hilton and her being in and out of jail. Why do people focus so much on topics like this? What about how congress has let us down with the war issues? What about how Bush is killing this country? It is time for people to change their focus and concentrate on what is really important in this country. Are people even aware of what’s going on? Or are they just lemmings?

This morning I went to Whole Foods to pick up some items for a picnic with the boyfriend and his family, who are in town for a few days. When I drove into the parking lot in my Honda Civic Hybrid, the odometer changed over to 10,000 miles. My car will be a year old later this month. I was pleased to see that in a year's time I drove less than the national average for miles per year, which is 12,000.

After noticing my odometer changing, I noticed there were a lot of small cars and hybrids in the Whole Foods parking lot. Is it safe to say that people who shop at Whole Foods are more environmentally conscience? Not only were the shoppers driving fuel efficient cars, they were also carrying their own shopping bags. These people bring their own bags in the store and carry their groceries out in their own bags to help save on plastic in the environment and from cutting down more trees to make paper bags.

I don't know why I noticed these things but I thought it was interesting to see people who are environmentally conscience all shopping at the same place. I'm sure there are the same type of people shopping at Trader Joe's too. I just happened to notice it at Whole Foods.