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return of the prodigal...
Dec. 13th, 2006 05:19 pmseveral months later, she reappears...
The last few months have been busy, and when it hasn't been busy I've been letting myself be a lazy bum.
To recap, we bought a house this summer, and moved in mid August. We're still unpacking- things are mostly in the right rooms now, at least! We love our house. (It's still odd and exciting to be able to say that!)
Of course, as with any place you live for a while, you start noticing little things that you'll change "one of these days"... like the "country" wallpaper in the upstairs bathroom...
The cats seem to like the new place. Kitty loves all the sun we get from the big south windows. (She'll be 19 in January!) Loki likes having all the space, though he's often grumpy about not being allowed outside unless he's wearing a harness & line.
We got a foot of heavy, wet snow the Friday two weeks before Thanksgiving, which was our inaugural shoveling event. (No joke - 12".) Since then absolutely nothing. At this rate, we'll be lucky if we get a hard frost for Christmas.
Work has taken up a lot of time, too. Major deadlines for both of us in November.
We had P's family here for Thanksgiving, and my family joined in later in the afternoon. As the old newspapers say, "A Good Time was had by All."
We were both sick with some kind of cold/flu thing the week after Thanksgiving, which was "fun". (Not what we meant by "bring something to share"... though a coworker pointed out that viruses can be considered "organic" and "free range".) I was out the first half of the week, and Peter was out the rest of it. Mine turned into a sinus infection (lucky me) which meant antibiotics for the next week.
Sure didn't help with getting anything done!
Right now, we're trying to get things ready for the winter holidays. Sunday we finally got some lights up on the front of the house, and last night the (now sadly old and scraggly) tree came out of the box and had lights draped over it. At this rate, we might have decorations up by New Year's...
( adventures in older houses )
So, that's my exciting life the past few months. I've been trying to catch up on all the people on my friend's list, but this is going to take a while...
The last few months have been busy, and when it hasn't been busy I've been letting myself be a lazy bum.
To recap, we bought a house this summer, and moved in mid August. We're still unpacking- things are mostly in the right rooms now, at least! We love our house. (It's still odd and exciting to be able to say that!)
Of course, as with any place you live for a while, you start noticing little things that you'll change "one of these days"... like the "country" wallpaper in the upstairs bathroom...
The cats seem to like the new place. Kitty loves all the sun we get from the big south windows. (She'll be 19 in January!) Loki likes having all the space, though he's often grumpy about not being allowed outside unless he's wearing a harness & line.
We got a foot of heavy, wet snow the Friday two weeks before Thanksgiving, which was our inaugural shoveling event. (No joke - 12".) Since then absolutely nothing. At this rate, we'll be lucky if we get a hard frost for Christmas.
Work has taken up a lot of time, too. Major deadlines for both of us in November.
We had P's family here for Thanksgiving, and my family joined in later in the afternoon. As the old newspapers say, "A Good Time was had by All."
We were both sick with some kind of cold/flu thing the week after Thanksgiving, which was "fun". (Not what we meant by "bring something to share"... though a coworker pointed out that viruses can be considered "organic" and "free range".) I was out the first half of the week, and Peter was out the rest of it. Mine turned into a sinus infection (lucky me) which meant antibiotics for the next week.
Sure didn't help with getting anything done!
Right now, we're trying to get things ready for the winter holidays. Sunday we finally got some lights up on the front of the house, and last night the (now sadly old and scraggly) tree came out of the box and had lights draped over it. At this rate, we might have decorations up by New Year's...
( adventures in older houses )
So, that's my exciting life the past few months. I've been trying to catch up on all the people on my friend's list, but this is going to take a while...
