Whew, am I pooped! After I got back from Kickboxing last night, Jim and I had to pull up the nasty old carpet in our game room because we're getting new carpet put in today!!! I don't know why we haven't done this sooner because the old carpet was soooooo bad. In it's heyday, it was a plush burnt orange shag carpet but over the years, it had pretty much flattened to nothing. It was absolutely hideous. Plus, after the situation with our poor, sick little Richard Parker...nothing was going to bring that carpet back from it's yuckiness. I'll post before/after pics when they're done!

The worst part about pulling up the carpet was that because the carpet was so old the padding underneath had disintegrated to a fine dust. When we tried sweeping it, all that did was release it into the air and cause huge coughing fits. We went through 3 vacuum bags and still had to get on our hands and knees to sweep it up with a hand broom and picker-upper. Ugh, that nasty yellow dust was everywhere!

On a bit of a happier note: that free ipod site really does work! I got mine yesterday!