Once upon a week or two

Sorry for the delay.... I may have no minions, but hey, at least I have fans...err friends. :o)
The last two weeks have been something else altogether. I'm quitting smoking - I'm not entirely happy about the quitting, but the patch keeps me from ripping the heads off others - which is a very good thing.

Renovations are still very much happening, but they are on hold for the time being. The master bedroom is complete (super thanks be to all of my wonderful friends that pitched in to keep the renovation Nazi from killing me – or vice versa), and I get to have a real closet that can hold all of my thousands of pounds of clothes in one place. Hooray for big closets, and a boyfriend with a small wardrobe.

The master bedroom - Well I got to say it looks marvelous. I have a super huge cherry oak bedroom suite, which just fits as long as you put the tall boy in another room. But using the dapper tan as a wall colour brought out the cherry and kept the room light enough that you don't feel that the room is closing in on you. The headboard on the bed is massive, and I'm running into a serious sway problem when the bed is in recreation mode. Still trying to figure out how to stabilize it. I may need a whole other room/bed for recreation. (Insert quizzical Spock-lookin smiley here)

The altar room is painted (the same dapper tan) and floored, but all of the baseboards and trim need to be painted yet, and the door hung before it’s ready.
The kid’s room, well let me just say I’m glad for the kids sake’s that they aren’t here. It looks like a small bomb went off in there and finding anything proves to be more than a chore. It’ll take a week just to find the floor.

The upstairs bathroom could be my greatest triumph but at the moment is proving to be quite a let down. I haven’t gotten around to cleaning up any of the work-related mess in there. Add to that it needs to be used daily, so put all the regular mess in as well. And it too needs a door to be hung. I’ll get to that – just as soon as I find the screws!

The rest of the house I took the time to clean, but the upstairs…. Erg!
ON TO THE GOOD NEWS.

It’s been 9 months but I finally went back to work. After mom died last year, I just didn’t want to do it. Ick, not that many people actually want the daily grind. I suppose I probably could have. I just really didn’t want to. I didn’t want to tell anyone that I was still struggling. Anyhow, after many months of renovations, and spending sprees, and all things that make your bank account groan, I’m back on the job. Can’t you just hear the sigh of relief coming from the bank account? LOL Anyhow I have a nice desk job that keeps me busy, most of the time. The people here are great and when I actually get hired on (I went through a temp agency) the union that these guys have will see that I’m making anywhere from 18 – 25 bucks an hour. I don’t care what anyone says, money is important, and that kind of money makes for a nicer standard of living.

So once again, the universe that likes to give me the occasional spin put me right back where I never expected that I’d be, and somehow I’m happier than I thought possible.

I have a boyfriend that loves me more than just about anything else in his world – and I love him back equally as much.
I have good friends – some of the best actually.
I have family that would fight for me, or with me – whichever I need.
I have a great house – Mortgaged up to my ass of course, but it’s mine.
I have a car – and it actually gets me from point A to point B without me having to worry.
Now I have a good job to help pay for all the extra goodies in life.
I don’t know exactly how I got here, but it’s a great place to be.