Maybe we'll just call it Spot*

Megan's link to the Seattle Environmental Home Centre, got me thinking about Marmoleum, the seemingly wonder floor covering that is hypoallergenic, not too destructive in how it is produced and comes in a wide array of colours. No really, it did. And here's the thing: I can not handle the name. Say it aloud and I bet you agree. Mar-mol-eum. Ugh.

So, who cares right? Well clearly: me. You see, there are two areas of our house that are slated for (near)future renos that go beyond the average glue gun and sewing machine crafts that fill our more everyday home projects. These are, respecitively, the bathroom and the kitchen. And both of these projects present opportunities for thinking and talking about flooring. (Isn't home ownership hot?) The bathroom is coming up first, and will infact likely end up with a well sealed wood floor, depending on what we find when we tear up the already peeling vinyl tiles. So no marmoleum there. The kitchen however, may just end up being covered up depending on the extent of the damage and just how successful we are with removing the same vinyl tiles during the bathroom project. Now I'm not saying that Marmoleum is a given, and in fact I've yet to raise it with Martin as an option, partly because lord-love-a-duck I hate saying Marmoleum. So very much. I don't know what it is. Is it the forced conjunction of two words: linoleum and marble (I assume it is supposed to be marble)? Is it the fact that one can talk about regular vinyl flooring and not sound like a total suburbanite, but that as soon as you start talking about something that has to have a TM after it, you've totally lost any street-cred you ever once had? I don't know. I do know that I can not bring myself to start a conversation that will centre around the word Marmoleum. Though apparently I can write an entire paragraph or two about it. And so it is that I am coming to you, my loyal handful of readers with a plea for an alternative. I figure we've easily got months before we start on the kitchen, so don't feel too rushed in coming up with a nickname that I can use in place of that bad word that makes me itchy. Thanks a million.

* Spot, for those who don't know is in fact the "formal" name of our house. While here I refer to it as the domicile, the structure was formally named Spot by Martin's daughter before we even occupied it. We took her for a drive past the house and a poke around the yard when we first were in the heady days of signing papers and meeting with bank folks, and to make things more interesting for her (and us really because mortgages... boring), we started talking about names. Because the house is on a corner, Martin and I were gunning for something like Cornelius, but she thought that was kinda dumb. We were expecting that she might continue the trend of noun+"y" that has been popular for most of her 9 years now, ie/ the VW van = vany, new teddy bear = beary, etc, but she surpised us with Spot. Which is kind of fun in an absurdist 9-year old humour kind of way. And so it is formally Spot The House.