Spend, Spend, Spend

Jaclyn hates it when I say "spend, spend, spend" so I do it as much as I can (of course).

This past weekend I did some spending, spending, spending on new carpet. This hideous gray-blue-dirt colored carpet will be no more in a couple of weeks. It will be replaced with lucious, soft, Stainmaster extra-life carpet. Carpet shopping has to be one of the most overwhelming and tiring shopping experience there is. The vast array of styles and color can be more than the mind can bear in one afternoon. Luckily, we have done this before and knew the basic color and style we wanted before we made the trek to Carpet Emporium. Of the 4 samples we tried at home, the one we thought would not work turned out to look great in all my rooms. Trying to find a single carpet that will match contempory style and color can be quite challenging. I am thrilled there was one that I actually liked and did not feel that I was settling for. Hopefully, I will be singing this same happy tune after it is installed. Nothing can look worse than what is already in here though.

In other purchasing news, I acquired a portable MP3 player. It's about the size of a small pager with 512MB of flash memory. I have already loaded about 5 cd's worth of music onto it. It should prove to be quite handy for the looooong flight to Memphis this Thursday.

Congratulations to my friends John and Judy Green on the birth of their first son. They are "trying out" the name Connor to see how it works. From the pictures that I have seen, he appears to be a cute little baby.. nice and smooth with no worry wrinkles.