Our house is finally finished enough to be considered Completely Finished. Ahhhhh! (We still have to  switch out the overhead lamp in the kitchen, because the first one we got was WAY too bright! But a new one should be on its way and yeah, the rest is done, so we're finished, yes ( Read more... )

Our kitchen STILL isn't done. With a little luck, we're hoping to be finished around the 3 month mark. That is. A long time. To live in your utility room. Yes, we were lucky that we had the space and the amenities, but it got old. And I'd packed for a month and a half, tops, so we've been missing things, running out of things that I didn't feel ( Read more... )

I've found the house I want.

Take a look.Too bad we're not really in the market to buy a house right at the moment... But if we were, Sven would have to work hard to talk me out of this one. The only minor things I have are ( Read more... )

Good news:

We got an extra closet! Yay!

Bad news:

I hurt my back carrying it into the house.

In between:

Sven has now learned that there is only one appropriate response to my getting hurt, namely any variation of "poor baby, I'm so sorry for you." "You'd have been fine if you'd just turned more" is not an accepted response.

Bad news:

My lower back ( Read more... )

I dreamt I was getting married. It wasn't for love, more for reasons of practicality, I think, or perhaps proforma. In fact, the groom kept changing, so that was certainly not what this story was about.

It was about the wedding. Apparently, we had decided to have a little ceremony all the same, with a small gathering. (And by 'we,' I am obviously ( Read more... )