Bring On the Power Tools!

As I sit here in queue for 2008 Red Sox tickets, I thought I would bang out a blog post (all the while praying that my having another Firefox tab open will not somehow disturb my computer's mojo and send me careening towards no ticket doom), I was thinking about my upcoming Christmas shutdown break. At my company, we are shutdown from Christmas Eve through New Year's Day and believe me when I write that I am looking forward to it pretty heavily. In years past, I would spend the time deflating from the hard work of the year, collect myself a bit, hit the gym a ton and look forward to the clean sheet of paper that would be the upcoming year.

I'm doing something a little different this year during my break. In the vein of seeking to try new things and then detail those efforts here, I'm taking a big step (for me at least) of tackling some kind of project(s) here at the Chez Kuzia condo. In order for this to feel like a true challenge, it's gotta be something more than, say, painting a room (although I may do that as well). There's gotta be dust and mayhem and shenanigans and likely lots of cursing. One idea I have is to rip up the linoleum I have in my upstairs bathroom and throw down tile since I have some nice tiles leftover by the previous owner. Me and my handy Home Depot book will be attempting to make some sweet property value increasing magic, described in glorious detail right here with some photos and likely video. God help me.

The logical part of my brain tells me this is something regular people like me do all the time and are able to accomplish and get better at with some practice... but this is an area where I've long felt is some kind of real leap for me. Funny huh? For some people it would be going bungee jumping or wrestling an anaconda, but for me, it's replacing a sink or putting down some new floors.

And if anyone has any ideas on little things to do around this place to snazz it up (which I know is tough without actually seeing my place, unless I get some photos up here for everyone), feel free to let me know. One other option (which does not involve a ton on my part except for the almighty dollar) is to get some new appliances since the ones I have are not all that great. The dishwasher is getting some funk built up on the inside seals and that seems inherently problematic for a device meant to get things clean. I'm just sayin'.