Pink carpet no more!!!

My house is over one hundred years old and constantly has to be fixed or changed. Over the summer we got a new roof on it and painted it ourselves. This summer is all about the inside. I'm not saying my house is a complete wreck that is about to fall apart but my parents are complete opposites (my dad being a red neck and my mom a classy lady) who both want their stuff in the house. My parents have NO idea how to do décor and always come to me since I have a passion for interior designing and was considering that for a job forever ago. Recently my dad discovered a wooden television cabinet (everything is wooden in my house; perfect for a fire) and we went to go get it. Well when we got in our house we all agreed we liked it and my mom asked me what I now thought of our living room. Being completely honest I told her I hated the carpet (which had faded to a pink and matched nothing at all) and wanted it gone. Somehow I convinced my parents we should take it out and we so moved all our furniture to one side of the room to begin. Now pulling up the carpet is not had at all! The only problem is all the staples in the floor and spiky boarders. The first problem we had with them was my cats wanted to explore this new floor and I didn't want them to get hurt and my dad said he could careless about "The dumb cats" which caused me to start bawling my eyes out because my cats are my babies. Once my mom finally got my dad to get all the cats out of the room and apologize to me we had to get that stuff off the floor. It took us a good three hours to get all the staples out with pliers and the spikes with a crowbar and hammer in the living room. I think that was the hardest part not only because there were at least one hundred staples just in the living room but also because I had to bend down to get them and my back hurt so badly. The next day we moved onto the dining room which took only an hour or so. I did not do the stairs but my parents did and if I had to do them I'd think they were the worst. In the end we spent three days removing carpet and my spine had turned to mush. Even though I never want to do that again I would defiantly say that pulling out hundreds of staples with pliers one at a time was worth it because my house looks amazing. Now to paint...

Curiosity killed the cat.

(Please excuse the fact the font is messed up at the end. I have not idea why it is doing that! I copy and pasted it from Word and once I noticed that the font was crazy at the end I tried retyping it on here. There is no winning.)

            Throughout the ages mankind has constantly had a fondness for exploring the unknown. Even to this day we want to discover greater unknown mysteries. From Adam exploring the Garden of Eden to NASA putting range rovers on Mars, we human beings are curious.

            One of the most recognized and remembered explorations are Christopher Columbus’ discovery of America.  He sailed his ship across the Atlantic Ocean to locate a direct water route west from Europe to Asia but ended up in the Bahamas. Columbus wanted to discover a faster way to travel to Asia via boat and Columbus wanted fame and fortune. To make this voyage that is so important, Columbus had to sacrifice the fact he might get lost, crash, starve, and even catch scurvy and such diseases. And this is only one discovery of the unknown!

            Anther important voyage into the unknown is Lewis and Clark exploration into the regions west of the Mississippi River. They explored for they had held interest in further exploring this largely still unknown region of the continent.  They traveled on foot, horse, canoe, and any other means that they had to. Lewis and Clark risked starvation during the harsh winters and/or become hopelessly lost in the Rocky Mountains. All these risk for curiosity

            We humans are willing to risk our lives to know the unknown. We travel to solve curiosity, to gain fame, and even just to make our lives simpler. Humans will never stop exploring the endless unknown.