What's happened? There are so many blogs out there, I think continuing with this is almost completely pointless; I think it's only for my own amusement.
If anyone cares, I've been really busy lately. Work has been zoo-like and not at all enjoyable, and I'm in the middle of a nearly-over-my-head renovation project that takes up all of my spare time. I'm re-doing my back office, which was in terrible shape for the first four years we spent in our house. Now finally, at the four-year mark, I've gutted the room and fixed it up. All the furniture and the mess is piled into the middle of the room, there are wires everywhere, I ripped off the barnboard siding and exposed a wall the surface of which looks like one of those giant termite mounds in Africa. I've plastered, sanded, peeled wallpaper, caulked, painted, painted, painted and painted, re-did all the plugs and outlets in the room (they were dark brown), changed a light fixture, now I'm building built-in bookshelves over one entire wall out of painted pine and MDF. It's a ton of fun. Despite the fact that I think I'm allergic to the dust of MDF (an all-body rash clued me into this fact), it's going pretty well, and I'm almost finished half of the 30 shelves.
When this room is done, it will kick off a massive shift in the way we inhabit our house. When we moved in, we put things in rooms instinctively instead of really thinking about how we might use the space down the road. It's been really willy-nilly. That room was the 'office' or project room, or spare room, or husband's room (he kind of took it over) or computer room or whatever, but it's really large, too large to justify dedicating it to that kind of secondary undefined purpose. When we moved in, we used it as the box depository - we put all the boxes in there and settled into the house from that point outwards.
Aside from all of that, we've been reconfiguring the basement a bit, I've been knitting a sweater, trying to stay warm, skiing, and putting off starting my seeds for this spring. I think it's time to get at it, though, because it's the middle of March already and I don't want to end up with a bunch of green tomatoes in September. We're also trying to plan for a trip to Europe late next fall, all things permitting. We'll see. Things are busy, but not busy enough to justify blogging about.
I think my blogging days might be limited. (sigh).
