Okay we have a plan B.
The steam cleaning is happening tomorrow. So I’ve moved all the furniture out of my living room. Sofa, big screen TV, bookshelf. Everything except two speakers that are wired into the wall, but can be moved around easily. That was a project! He better come tomorrow, or else I’m stuck with extra furniture in every room. And a man can’t live like this.
The plan B in question is to acknowledge that the carpet isn’t going to reach, so instead we will place tiles around the fireplace. Should look nice. The problem is that they should match the tiles in my kitchen, on the other side of the carpet from the fireplace. They don’t have to be exact, but they need to be close. So I left work early to go to Rona and get some tile samples. They don’t have any books of tiles and instead recommend you buy the ones you think are close and then return them the next day.
I picked up five different tiles (heavy buggers) and brought them home. None of them are an exact match, but there is one that looks nearly right if it was darker. Anyway, I’ve taken pictures of the entire affair, and I’ll go back to Rona tomorrow and see if I can get a better match. Then I should be able to give Doug the go.
Hopefully I can get this done by Friday. Because on Saturday the key fob that he is using will be disabled with the big key fob reset going on in the building.
And I still need to prepare a D&D game for Friday.
In other news, I got a 30% off coupon for the Running Room today because I keep leading a group on Wednesdays. Too bad I just bought shoes, but it is good for the entire year. I’m sure I’ll need new shoes before then.
Today all the Running Room managers from across Canada and the US were in Edmonton. So I got to lead a bunch of them around downtown Edmonton. Nice bunch.