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As a foodie I must say I don't like truffle oil. Shaved truffles are alright in moderation, but I it's on the level of a stinky cheese to me. It's an acquired taste, and I won't be acquiring it at the cost.

Stinky cheese on the other hand...
 
I like Parmesan cheese but there are some stinky cheeses I don't like. I don't like bleu cheese. I like a lot of cheeses though. Sharp cheddar is good.

I'm trying to get motivated and I found that Amazon.com has a discount on the Toto Drake II toilet and has free shipping.. My mother indicated that if I get the floor done in my bathroom, she might buy that toilet for me. I have a Drake I that can go in, but the Drake II has a better bowl wash. My proposition was to actually put the Drake II in her bathroom bc its the most used one and put the old Drake I in the guest bathroom (after I rip out the old shower). I've realized that I don't think it will be too tough to move the toilet to anywhere in that back area because the vent pipe can always go up inside a wall and connect up in the attic. And the sewer pipes are under the house-- which is up on cinderblocks and it doesn't have to go through any joists or anything like that. Other than the obnoxious task of crawling under the house, the job would not be so bad.

Only other problem is if there were snakes. I saw a copperhead in my driveway tonight and tried to run it over but it got out of the way in time. I'll have to carry a machete when I go outside later because those things are dangerous and the local hospitals don't have antivenom.

Anyhoo, I need to scrape my floor clean, temporarily block holes for toilet flange and water supply, pour self-leveling flooring, cut and install the linoleum, and then install the toilet. I really need to get a move on it but I think I need to take my storm window off so I can open a window to get some air in there. My 30+ year old vent/light/heat thingy doesn't work anymore. I need to replace that.

I have some awful ceiling tiles with holes in them. I don't know why I hate them so much, but I do. I want to take some self-adhering vinyl floor tiles (thin ones) and stick them to the ceiling. I may get some 3M spray adhesive to make it stickier. Do you think that would work?
I will probably have to fill in the holes on the ceiling tiles before I do that so it won't leave pits on the vinyl things.
 
Never would have thought to use flooring on the ceiling? Glad you are getting some work done on the bathroom.
 
I love blue cheese. My daughter tried it for the first time the other day and likes it too, so I'm going to start making blue cheese burgers again. My wife hates the stuff, so I can only do it to our burgers, but I'm looking forward to it.
 
Blue Cheese is good stuff. My daughter tries just about everything I cook and has not turned anything away yet. I am lucky.
 
It's good that your daughter likes what you cook. I was always a very picky eater. My mother said I was a fussy baby, although she later admitted that part of the reason was bc I was very ill. I had scarlet fever, jaundice, ear infection, and a staph infection and such. My dad had to rig the engine of something (not sure what) to my crib to make it shake so I would sleep at night- otherwise he would have to walk around the house 1,000 times carrying me and rocking me to sleep (although he did do that, but he had work in the mornings so he needed a solution).

This is what the ceiling tile looks like
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I didn't get a picture of it, but some of the tiles are cracked. I think the reason I don't like the tiles is bc one year we had a bug infestation and I woke up and they were crawling all over the ceiling and all over me. I was a kid so I thought that the bugs had come through the holes in the tiles and even though I know that wasn't the case, I still associate those tiles with that bug invasion. I have no idea what they were and I don't remember how we got rid of them. It just sort of reminded me of a scene from the movie Creep Show. LOL.

My bathroom has a sort of blue and white theme going so I was thinking of using these tiles (I got them on sale for like $7 for a pack of 30).
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I need to figure out just how far I need to go on the self-leveling flooring and if there's anything I should put down under it first to make it stick better. I don't want it cracking and coming up and such.
 
I'm afraid those self stick floor tiles on your ceiling might get unstuck from the heat, and end up on the floor after awhile.
 
havasu said:
I'm afraid those self stick floor tiles on your ceiling might get unstuck from the heat, and end up on the floor after awhile.
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Yeah, that was my main concern about putting them up. I wonder if using 3m spray adhesive would help or not.

My non-adhesive tiles in the kitchen, laundry room etc are falling so having things fall would not be new to this home. LOL.

My power went out around 4am this morning and was out until around 8:30am. There was no running water, no air conditioning, my mother couldn't use her CPAP, I couldn't take anything out of the fridge.... My power company really gets on my nerves. They made the automated message longer and more annoying. I'm guessing they have an option to speak to a live person if you actually know where a line is down, but from my experience they never have anyone answering. Last time the power was out for 12 hours and there was a downed tree on the power lines blocking my road and stranding my family out here. I called for several hours and kept trying to get to someone. They let the phone ring 100 times in a row without picking up before I finally gave up and called the local police station and asked them to please get in touch with someone bc we couldn't leave and had no running water. They had an alternative number to get through and told the power company about it.

power outages make me cranky. lol.
 
I received a suspicious phone call from a lady who asked if I was applying for another credit card (from the same company which I already have a card) and when I told her no, she recommended I contact the three credit firms and have them flag my credit. Easier said than done. No live persons to talk to, press one if you are English, press two for this, press three for that...

Two hours later and I'm still confused whether it worked or not!

Now what? Wait and watch to see my credit being destroyed? [...SMH in disgust]
 
That sucks! I love how impossible it is to protect yourself from things like this.
 
Ugh. I hope they know to not let this other person try to open up lines of credit in your name.

On a sad note, I learned the reason for the power outage was because a 42 yr old man lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a utility pole and died. :-(

Burger night was awesome. I brought my laptop to my friend's house and had a double cheeseburger with 4 slices of american cheese, a slice of fresh tomato, crispy bacon and some mushroom garlic sauce my brother made. It was delicious. Then I showed my friend's wife how to put custom content into her Sims 3 game.
 
I need to go back to sleep. My caller kept calling last night which woke the baby up quite a bit.

I'm going to have to change numbers.
 
I'm dog sitting the G/F's family's dog this week. Seems the dog is confused between day and night and likes to play at 3 AM. Damn dog, I'm exhausted!
 
I'm taking the wife to another Doc, then driving us to the poor house where we will continue living.

Docs are expensive.
 
I wish that was the case. They had to remove something yesterday and she's all laid up. This sucks.
 
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