Somehow weekends are just never long enough lately. Perhaps we’ve been spoiled by too many long weekends in the last few months or perhaps we’re just working too hard during the weekend (or perhaps a bit of both), but when Monday morning rolls around again, we’re not feeling refreshed, regardless of when we went to bed the night before. Of course, I think both of us would prefer to be able to work from home and just do projects around the house as well as the other things that make us money…but unfortunately that isn’t possible at the moment. So instead hubby has to go off to work while I work from home and try to keep everything else around here balanced. 😉
Speaking of him, this morning he’s trying a new commuting option. One of his co-workers lives relatively close to us and they’ve decided they’ll trying meeting up in the morning and driving in together. I’m not really certain how it’s going to work out. His hours can be really crazy sometimes so that could be an issue – but she also works long hours and they might enjoy the company of having someone to talk to during the 30 minute or so commute so we’ll see.
This morning I wanted to get a few more boxes moved out of prominent areas so things are a bit more organized. We had several boxes and a few extra computers sitting in our entry way for the past few days and I wanted to take them upstairs to the extra room earlier but other things just seemed more important. So I’ve moved them already this morning as well as a few other boxes which were in the kitchen. I’d made a box for random tools and such that needed to go into the workshop in the barn and also one for random stuff that needed to go into one of the storage rooms. Since we freed up a little space in storage room b this weekend, I figured now is a decent time to start filling it up again lol.
So this morning I’m working again to try to get our computers networked together. We changed out the wireless card from one of the computers we won’t be using for the time being and put it in our primary PC…but for some reason it’s not letting us input the correct network key so I guess I’ll be playing with it for a while until I can trick it or something. Eventually I know we’re just going to have to reformat almost all of our computers but now isn’t the time…and the DVD burner on that PC is on the fritz so we technically will need to get a new one and install that if we intend to keep all the data on that PC which will absolutely need to do.
And I figured I would post some photos of our “progress” although at times I don’t really see it all that much myself from room to room lol.
Here’s the kitchen. As we mentioned the other day, we’ve hung up a few pictures in the room.
We’re not completely sure we’ll be leaving this one at the moment but the Texas flad washboard will definitely stay above the dog bowls. We love this painting here. It’s called WTC Guernica and we learned after we bought that it’s two images laid over one another. Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso, inspired by Picasso’s horror at the Nazi German bombing of Gernika, Spain on April 26, 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. The air raid destroyed the city, killing a number of people variously estimated between 250 and 1,600, and injuring many more…and after 9-11 an artist laid the New York skyline with the burning towers to the piece. It’s an extremely powerful piece when you look at it carefully since there are faces and demons and all sorts of things in the background. Perhaps not something to have in the kitchen or dining room but we’re not really sure of a better place for it right now…
Ayla was helping me do a bit of dusting this morning as well…you can see what she collected on her head.
And we also have “Eyes Left” which goes rather well with the coloring of the room and the furniture. Eventually we’d like to put up a flat screen here but that investment will have to wait for a while.
Here’s the current status of the living room. If we manage to start building the DVD shelves next weekend as planned, things will begin to look very different in here then. But the fish will stay and the shelves will be at about the same height as the speakers are currently.
Here’s some photos from our bedroom. It’s a mess so sorry for not at least making the bed but it just doesn’t seem all that important will all the other stuff going. There’s even a kitty in this photo who wasn’t hiding under the bed for a change. We’re hoping to be able to put up the baby gate at the top of the stairs today so we can let the cats roam free a bit and inspect everything. They’ve been cooped up in the same bedroom for a few weeks now and we’re thinking they’re not too thrilled about it. But with workers coming and going, our options have been limited.
And this is one of the cabinets for the new bathroom that we put together yesterday. We’re thinking the color is going to look great in there with the tiles and needless to say we’re very much looking forward to this room being done.
And here
was our second grilling & cooking experience here in the house since we’ve moved in just in case people still think we’re depending on delivery. Both of us are very relieved to have “real” food back on our table for dinner because the take out stuff was just getting a bit boring. And since there’s only about 3 places we can order from around here, that really limits our options.
I won’t dare show any pictures of the extra room. It’s looking terrible in there still and will probably continue to look pretty bad for the next few months. We just don’t have places for a lot of the stuff in there right now so it’s going to be a while before we get it all sorted out.
