{"id":690,"date":"2004-08-06T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-06T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/690"},"modified":"2004-08-06T08:25:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-06T12:25:00","slug":"and-the-winner-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/690","title":{"rendered":"And the winner is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So last night we made the final visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olympiatile.com\/toronto.htm\">Olympia Tile<\/a> and picked out the floor for the bathroom. The winner is (drum roll)&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ansiindia.com\/gifs\/indian-utumn-natural-b.jpg\">Indian<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ansiindia.com\/gifs\/indian-autumn-rustic-b.jpg\">Autumn<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ansiindia.com\/slate-stones.html\">slate<\/a>! There will be a chair rail, also. Man oh man, this bathroom better look damn pretty when we&#8217;re done with it.<\/p>\n<p>We also packed most of the rest of my stuff. There are a few outstanding bits and bobs left to throw in boxes, but I have faith that it will all get done in the end. I really do have a hideous number of books, though. There is going to be some monster garage sale\/charitable donation work happening in September at our house. It&#8217;s been years and years since I&#8217;ve set up for a garage sale. The last one was in high school, to raise money for the band to travel to Musicfest in Halifax. We did it at my friend Chris&#8217;s house, and all I really remember is listening to Metallica on his portable CD player and joking around with Alyssa about a hideously mottled brown and orange ceramic washcloth holder in the shape of an open mouthed frog. We named him Francois, and then couldn&#8217;t part with him.<\/p>\n<p>I found Francois yesterday while I was packing. He&#8217;s still ugly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So last night we made the final visit to Olympia Tile and picked out the floor for the bathroom. The winner is (drum roll)&#8230; Indian Autumn slate! There will be a chair rail, also. Man oh man, this bathroom better look damn pretty when we&#8217;re done with it. We also packed most of the rest <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/690\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}