A new year’s hi
I almost forget how to do this already. That’s a very scary thought. I feel like I’m slowly falling off the face of the internet…so I thought I’d pop up for a quick hello and a what’s happenin’!
I’m upto my eyebrows in drywall dust and paint, literally (I’m thinking of going white, what do you all think?). This was after I finished sweeping off all the walls in the house before I could start priming.
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I’m currently 2 rooms away from being finished the primer. That is about 16 hours of painting under my belt already and I still have 2 coats left…oh, yeah. Good thing I LOVE painting. Very good thing. That new mp3 player has been coming in very handy to ward off the lonliness…and every so often someone will pop in to visit for a few minutes, usually well timed.
Doesn’t that primer look nice…one step closer to being livable.
Here’s the view out our living room and dining room that was absolutely brilliant the day I was painting in there. At times the glare was almost blinding off the very slick snow and ice.
We’ve only had one minor (which could have been major) mishap. On Wednesday night last week we had a wicked wind storm and it blew about 3 bundles worth of shingles off our roof. Thank goodness that’s all. So today my brothers came and fixed it and we’re okay.
My girlies were both sick this weekend. They are slowly recovering. So I spent most of the weekend at home with them. But yesterday I did go to the house for a couple of hours to help Jer with prepping our basement…shovelling gravel. Me…shovelling gravel. That almost deserves a “LOL,” but I have discovered I’m quite handy and that as girly as I can be, I know how to bust my butt when needed (I also learned how to put poly up on a wall over the insulation).
(Here’s my girlies having fun at the Children’s Museum last weekend.)
A HUGE highlight for me last week was when I went to the mail when I was taking a break from painting and there was a package for me. Now I LOVE packages. Especially when they sent from my Val!!! It was my Christmas/”thank you for visiting me” gift. It was the most thoughtful gift ever. I sat on the floor of our house in the middle of all my painting supplies opening it. With every item I pulled out of the box and every thoughtful little note written by her I got more and more teary eyed until I was finally just all out crying. I could tell that every thing that went into the box was put there with love and sweet thoughts and it made me feel so incredibly special. She even put a cd in with all my pictures from the photo shoot she did with me. There are so many lovely shots in there. I’ve been adding pictures to the link on the sidebar of my blog as I get them emailed from her, but here are a couple that I just got and I LOVE!!!
Hope everyone has had a good start to the new year! I CAN’T WAIT to catch up on all my blog reading. I feel so out of the loop and it’s rather lonely. I miss you all terribly and I look forward to reconnecting.
