monday
ANYway...
yoshi and me this morning
Thinking more and more about the big move coming soon and there is so much about "our new life" that I am excited about - the positive things:
Going to tear out the wall between the kitchen and the living room and make a large combination kitchen/dining/living room that will be L shaped. Add counter space in the kitchen (since we won't be using that space for a kitchen table anymore).
Tear up the carpet in the kitchen (it is just horrible, stained and nasty in so many places) and put down linoleum.
Going to tear up the threadbare 1960's avocado color carpet in the living room and get it back to the original hardwood floors (yay!).
Going to have a studio space upstairs this time around in a former bedroom (no more cold, dark basement studio in that house).
Dave has agreed that we can have chickens! Last year he wasn't in agreement but this year he is on board (another yay!) I love thinking about all the different colors and shapes of the future flock:
Brown egg layers: Barred Rock
Buff Rock
Silver Laced Wyandotte
Rhode Island Red
Black Star
Delaware
Partridge Rock
Blue and Green egg layers: Araucana
White egg layers: Buff Laced Polish
Golden Polish
White Crested Black Polish
White Polish
Mottled Houdan
Love those names. Back in 1980 and again 1983 I had flocks of mixed chickens and had many of those breeds I just named. The Polish birds have a puff of feathers on their heads like a ball - very cute to see them cocking their heads back and forth. We had one Black Star - the most friendly bird ever and named her Dorothy. We had her a long time and since she outlived all the other birds she ended up living in a dog house right outside the back door.
Dave is talking about getting another dog (a hunting dog this time - a setter or Brittany spaniel) - it is nearly one year since we had to put Tenzing to sleep. I haven't missed having a dog (though I do miss Tenzing) and am really enjoying the 2 cats right now. Tenzing didn't like cats and terrorized them so we didn't get the full effect of how personable they could be. I am enjoying getting to sleep with them and cuddle a lot more. I hope Dave's new puppy doesn't change that but I'm thinking that since it will be a puppy it should work out.
I am trying to concentrate on the positive things rather than the negative (which is the hard work of moving, remodeling, tearing up carpeting, sanding hardwood floors, painting and the emotional work of getting rid of more stuff). Last week I was trying to find the chart - the Holmes and Rahe SRRS (Social Readjustment Rating Scale) that shows how stress can negatively affect you. I suspected that I was under a lot of stress and why I am having these pains in my shoulder. After adding things up I see I am over the top with stress - 319. If you are over 300 you are majorly susceptible to illness and mental health problems. Death of a family member, moving, new job, change in finances, etc, even this mysterious pain in my shoulder causes stress not knowing for sure what it is.
Anyway - more animals coming into our lives while more old stuff goes out!
yoshi and me this morning
Thinking more and more about the big move coming soon and there is so much about "our new life" that I am excited about - the positive things:
Going to tear out the wall between the kitchen and the living room and make a large combination kitchen/dining/living room that will be L shaped. Add counter space in the kitchen (since we won't be using that space for a kitchen table anymore).
Tear up the carpet in the kitchen (it is just horrible, stained and nasty in so many places) and put down linoleum.
Going to tear up the threadbare 1960's avocado color carpet in the living room and get it back to the original hardwood floors (yay!).
Going to have a studio space upstairs this time around in a former bedroom (no more cold, dark basement studio in that house).
Dave has agreed that we can have chickens! Last year he wasn't in agreement but this year he is on board (another yay!) I love thinking about all the different colors and shapes of the future flock:
Brown egg layers: Barred Rock
Buff Rock
Silver Laced Wyandotte
Rhode Island Red
Black Star
Delaware
Partridge Rock
Blue and Green egg layers: Araucana
White egg layers: Buff Laced Polish
Golden Polish
White Crested Black Polish
White Polish
Mottled Houdan
Love those names. Back in 1980 and again 1983 I had flocks of mixed chickens and had many of those breeds I just named. The Polish birds have a puff of feathers on their heads like a ball - very cute to see them cocking their heads back and forth. We had one Black Star - the most friendly bird ever and named her Dorothy. We had her a long time and since she outlived all the other birds she ended up living in a dog house right outside the back door.
Dave is talking about getting another dog (a hunting dog this time - a setter or Brittany spaniel) - it is nearly one year since we had to put Tenzing to sleep. I haven't missed having a dog (though I do miss Tenzing) and am really enjoying the 2 cats right now. Tenzing didn't like cats and terrorized them so we didn't get the full effect of how personable they could be. I am enjoying getting to sleep with them and cuddle a lot more. I hope Dave's new puppy doesn't change that but I'm thinking that since it will be a puppy it should work out.
I am trying to concentrate on the positive things rather than the negative (which is the hard work of moving, remodeling, tearing up carpeting, sanding hardwood floors, painting and the emotional work of getting rid of more stuff). Last week I was trying to find the chart - the Holmes and Rahe SRRS (Social Readjustment Rating Scale) that shows how stress can negatively affect you. I suspected that I was under a lot of stress and why I am having these pains in my shoulder. After adding things up I see I am over the top with stress - 319. If you are over 300 you are majorly susceptible to illness and mental health problems. Death of a family member, moving, new job, change in finances, etc, even this mysterious pain in my shoulder causes stress not knowing for sure what it is.
Anyway - more animals coming into our lives while more old stuff goes out!