Lucky Duck

So our house is old. Really old. This means we’ve spent the entire time we’ve lived there fixing it up.  Really there isn't anything we haven't updated or have on our list to update. It's a long list.

One of the things on our list, and I use the term "our" loosely since I don't do any of the work, is the mudroom at the back of the house. It's a mess. Well, this weekend the husband put in a new floor and then began to lay some ceramic tile. It's off the kitchen so when "we" tiled the kitchen we bought enough so that the tile in both rooms would match.

Except when he started tiling it was apparent that we did not have enough tile to finish.

Which wouldn't have been a huge deal except the kitchen floor was done about....oh, five years ago.

So I immediately get online and of course, Lowes no longer carries it. And while searching for it I found a couple of other people looking for it too. This could be bad because now the mudroom is about 80% done but we have no way to finish the job. Which means ripping it out and putting down something else. Which would be both frustrating and ridiculous looking.

But I decide I’m going to run to the Lowe’s close to my office. Just to see. I was thinking I could probably find a close match, if nothing else.  And guess what? At the very end of the tile aisle, I found it – the actual tile! They had a one box and a few singles left. That was it. Talk about lucky!

And I do seem to have extremely good luck. It seems like I’m always winning raffles or prizes or getting freebies. Which really rocks, by the way.  Maybe that’s life’s way of making up for the fact that I have a square body. Hey, if I’ve got to be stuck with a short, squatty body then at the very least I can win a few things here and there…