•  Date Night.  Time to spare.  Visit Salvation Army store.  Found (4) MARS ATTACKS figurines at $3.00 each.  Buy all 4.  Look them up on EBay–they go for $30 each still in the package.  Awesome!  Set aside to post up over the weekend.  Son wakes up, comes downstairs.  “Dad, are those for me??”  Of course they are!  So much for Dad’s retirement.
• Work all day.  Tired.  Wife falls asleep putting the boy to bed.  Time to get daughter to bed.  Turn on TV.  “Dad!  It’s AMERICAN IDOL?  Can we watch it?  Will you watch it with me???”  Another hour of bonding, another hour closer to death.

If this isn’t love, I don’t know what is!

From Atrium Floor Project

Wife said it was time to rip out the old ugly ceramic tile in the entryway and expose the pretty wood floor underneath.  After all, what else are we doing with our time?  Only took 8 or so hours over three days, and very few injuries, mostly to me.  Next up:  Refinishing.  God help us all.