New plan for the kitchen...we're doing it all at once. We were going to order just the island and then do the rest later in the summer, but we can only get the discounted price on the counter top if we order at least 25 sq. feet. So, we had to finalize all the measurements this week and then we'll order everything on Saturday.

On Saturday Steve and I are doing a 4 mile run in hyde park (Hyde Park Blast). I don't know why it's 4 miles instead of the standard charity 5K, but at least it won't be too hot. It's at 8 in the morning.

I'm subbing for MyTien's TKD classes for the next month while she's out of town. That will keep my late afternoons and evenings busy. It also means a little extra summer money. And I'll get to see some students that I usually don't teach. In July I'll start going through lesson plans and PowerPoint's to make revisions.

Kitchen Work

The process of redoing the kitchen has started. We got the floor done today. We tore it up yesterday and finished putting the vinyl tiles down today. The tiles are pretty easy to work with. You just take the paper off the back and stick them to the floor. We used some called "EuroStone". It's suppose to look like slate. Although they in no way look like actual tiles, I think they look a lot better than what was down before, which wasn't held down by much more than gravity and the appliances and was sort of uneven and coming up in a few places. Of course, because of that it was very easy to remove, which was convenient. The top layer was on top of another layer of laminate and under that was tile (ugly tile). There was also evidence of another layer of laminate (very ugly) that had been torn up previously.

The main part of the floor was really easy and went fast. The problem was when we had to start cutting the tiles. The problem is that none of the walls in our house seem to be straight. We also had some issues with the various parts of the floor not being level. That's what you get with an old house, though. We seem to have it worked out though. Steve did most of the hard measuring stuff because when I tried to help it turned out I wasn't very good and it would have taken even longer if I had been more involved.

Step 2 in the kitchen is now to take care of the island and figure out the timeline on replacing the existing cabinets and counter tops.

OK, so again, it's been a while since an update. The test went well, other than the concrete break. I only broke two of the three. I'll get another chance at the OMAC test in July, though. I did get through my 4 board side kick without any trouble, which I was very happy about.

Today we started out big kitchen project. Part one is the floor. Then, an island and replacing the other counter tops and cabinets. We were going to do this in a couple different stages, but we might be able to get a counter top that we like on sale if we do it all before the end of the summer. We haven't decided what to do yet.

Today I ran a 5K with Steve, my dad, and Max. It ended up on the warning track inside the baseball stadium, so that was cool. The humidity was uncool. I was very sweaty.

It is likely that I will update more than once a month since track is now over and school is out.