Home ownership... my style

Well, over the last month and a bit, i have grown up. Well, okay, so i spent last night playing with Legos in my basement, that doesn't mean i'm not grown up, it simply means i can appreciate the engineering potential locked into each little building block - see, that makes playing with Lego sound almost necessary and deeply philosophical. Hmm, maybe i should abandon nursing and go with making up baloney. Seems to be a fitting little job for me. But, like i was saying, i have grown up in the last while - learning how to manage a household (i'm not quite there yet believe me!), learning how to balance out living in a house with continuing to live your life and not let the house live your life for you, and other various and sundry accomplishments.

Currently, as i hunt and peck away, the house smells warm and homey - yes, my dear friends, C.P. and L.V.B. (you know who you are!!!), the house was almost up to 18 degrees tonight - heehee, but it quickly got turned down when i was busy like a bee in my little kitchen which i am learning is more and more unhandy for working in - no order or efficiency there at all!! Any carpenters out there with free time and good ideas? You are more than welcome to have a crack at things - there are times when i'd just like to take the hammer to things myself but that would of course not be very wise.

Creepily enough, my curtains keep wanting to open up on their own - a sign of the full moon approaching (not that i hold much credence with that idea!). My curtains, a gift of infinite value from the previous owners of my little abode, are quite the lovely things - they are brown vinyly flowered things in my "office" and blue vinyly flowered things in my bedroom - with four sections so that each night before retiring, i have to carefully pull all four sections together so that there are no ominous black slits in my windows through which the dark can creep in! What a chore! I long for the day when there are full and lovely updated curtains installed - hopefully tomorrow's shopping excursion would bring some remedies to my dilemmas.

Dilemmas, aah yes, seems my life has had it's share of insignificant to the world but significant to me dilemmas. Was i going to get the roof done on time? Do i need my chimney liner replaced? How do i prepare roses for the winter? How does one kill grubs in a lawn when they've been having a free-for-all all summer??!!! I have oil paint all throughout my little home - what a pain in the neck! When you are already signed up for an automatic withdrawal system for a bill - it's best not to pay it again yourself - it's much too much work getting money back from companies once they have it in their iron fists.

And the list goes on and on... little things can depending on the day become things that can itch and pain you until you are driven a little crazy. Fortunately, i have a great crew of people to whom i can vent and mooch ideas off of. I am so thankful for you all! But as i said earlier, learning not to let the house take over is a good thing. So taking time to call someone, bake something or write a card are just as important as picking out paint colours, ripping up carpet and pondering life in the bathroom of pinkness.