Only When On A Mission

So this weekend was busy as are most weekends. We wanted to finish tiling the kitchen floor. So on Friday we started tiling. It didn't go too horribly. We ran out of thinset and stopped. So another trip to Home Depot on Saturday morning to pick up another bag of thinset and another box of tiles.

Saturday morning we get back from our trip, prepare the area and get ready to work. I start to lay tiles down and all seems okay. I get to the third rows of tiles and the tiles are off. Not quite lining up right. We try to adjust the tiles to compensate for the mistake. It isn't working. All of the rest of the tiles are off. I was pretty upset. Sat down threw a fit and cried. This is our third time tiling so we should be good at this by now. My mistake was laying the last two tiles on Friday and not "holding" them in place. I ended up finishing the tiles in an open area and not at an end of the row so there was no full support around the entire tile to keep it in place. The two last tiles I placed Friday night shifted a little which caused the problem. I know we tried adjusting but since we were just using 1/8 inch tile spacers there wasn't much room for adjustment.

Sunday I am still pretty upset but am ready to grout. It took a couple of hours to do this. It was a little longer than we expected. But when I finished the mess up from Friday night/Saturday wasn't as bad as it seemed. Or maybe I should say having the grout down didn't seem to enhance the appearance of the mistake.

Monday night on a mission after Nathan gets out of school to go purchase the last of the moulding so that I could stain and polyurethane. The goal by the end of the week is to reconnect all the appliances before Nathan leaves next week. When I went to measure the necessary width for the base moulding we needed something bigger than we had used in the rest of the house. The reason for this is do the numerous layers of linoleum flooring that we removed from the kitchen floor. All of that requires a little bit of an adjustment in the width of the moulding. So we go to Home Depot to look but we couldn't find anything bigger. We were also on a mission to try to finish the kitchen island. We need more granite. We try to look for this too. It took us almost an hour to try to find an available associate to help us try to locate the granite we had found before. Long story short they don't carry it in stock anymore so we would probably need to special order. Drive to Salinas to go to Home Depot in hopes they may have these things. Nope! They at least had the granite in stock just not the color we wanted. So our trip was completely unsuccessful and will probably also throw the rest of this week's plan out the window.

Got to love not being able to get things accomplished! My cure to that problem, stop off at Marie Calendar's and get a whole pie to go.