Lots of things marked off my list this week.
Good Stuff:
- Vicky's room has been converted to a guest room. The paint has been touched up, furniture rearranged, new curtains hung. I did think about moving my office in there, but it's a fairly large room with only one vent, so the temperature is harder to regulate. I spend a lot of time in my office; best to leave it in a more comfortable room.
- I have about 50 pictures to use as writing prompts for NaNo. A collection of short stories isn't exactly a novel, so I'm stretching the parameters, but it's not like the NaNo Police are going to arrest me.
- Got more cleaning done than I expected to. Still a long way to go, though. The Boys will be here in 3 weeks.
- Made check-up appointments and ordered new contacts. Doesn't look like much on paper, but I procrastinate phone calls. My years of spending hours of my work days on the phone over-rode the pleasurable hours I spent on the phone as a teenager.
- Encased the garden in plastic so I can see how long my tomatoes will keep producing, and to increase the possibility of a Brussels sprout harvest.
- Kicked around the possibility of a kitchen remodel. It's something Eric does periodically. Went so far as to go to Lowes to scope out new cabinets and flooring. After taking measurements, we estimated the flooring (porcelain tile) alone would be close to $3,000 with installation and tabled it again. Phew! I am going to encourage him to take the measurements back to Lowes, though, to get an estimate for the rest of the kitchen. Maybe the sticker shock will last a little longer. Yes, I would like a more functional kitchen. The builder cut a lot of corners, and a few changes would increase work space and storage, but kitchens are so daggone expensive!
Not So Good Stuff:
- The 'green house' design is leaving a lot to be desired thanks to the wind. Why does it have to be so darned windy? I'll need to do some research over the winter, I think, for a better design.
- I lost connectivity with the wireless printer, and the laser printer in my office has been on the fritz for months. Eric found a great deal online for a new printer, but now I have to clean my office and move the old laser out. I should maybe just donate it right away, but where would I donate a printer that doesn't work?
- The warrior queens are still elusive, but I think I'm close to being able to write Grace O'Malley (Irish pirate in the late 1500's). I have some fun ideas for her.
This Week:
- Clean my office.
- Finish getting guest rooms ready for Thanksgiving. I think it's maybe not even too early to make the beds.
- NaNo.
- Finish Spore and send it back to Tammy. Really enjoying it, but I can't read as long at a stretch on the computer screen, so it's a little slow going.
- Keep cleaning. I'm assuming it will all get done eventually.
6 comments:
For the dead laser, see if there's a Goodwill donation station in your area that take computer equipment for recycling. We have one in San Antonio, and we took a truckload of such items to them. They cheerfully unloaded it.
As for the SPORE reading, have you tried it on your iPad? That's where I do all my electronic proofing. I opened it in Pages and used footnotes for my annotations. Pages is pretty good about coming back to the place I left off, but everyone once in a while, I would brush something, and I'd be whisked to a different area of the document. Mildly annoying. Once I finish, I email it and convert to Word format (because that's what Tammy uses).
For pdf files, I use Goodreader or iAnnotate.
NaNo Police. Right. Makes note.
Sounds pretty good, really, other than the printer. Isn't it fun to plan things like kitchen remodels? Picking out tiles and counter tops, cupboards, working out a layout... Even without the budget to do it, planning is kinda fun. :)
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I just got back from an open house around the corner. There were no other people there to look at the house, so I had a long conversation with the realtor, who was most helpful. The main reason for the kitchen remodel was to get rid of the island. I also don't like the space about my cupboards. The realtor told me to keep the island, and she was adamant even when I argued with her. ;^) So if the island stays, we don't have to re-do the flooring, so we can just replace cupboards and counters, and that will bring the cost way down. It won't improve the flow, but I guess we'll have to live with that and learn for the next time. Or we could be lose weight, and that might make it easier to work together since we'll both take up less space. :)
People like islands for the work space, but most kitchens that have them are too small for them. Also, most older islands are wired. Obvious advantage is that you can plug in appliances, and some are plumbed. I have seen newer islands, however, that move on slider disks as much as a foot in either direction. This allows some respacing to accommodate a particular customer's needs. A good friend of mine builds homes, and he includes a moving island in the kitchen.
A moving island definitely sounds cool. :) While I like the idea of an island, I think it needs the right kind of kitchen. A galley kitchen, for example, has no business w/ an island, and as big as my kitchen is, it's laid out too weird to accommodate one. So, um, yeah.
How long are you planning on living there, Wendy? That should be a consideration too. If you think you're likely to sell within 5 years, then keep the island, definitely. If you're looking to live there for the rest of your life (ish) or no likely move in the future, make the kitchen YOU want. You're the one who has to live with it and cook in it. Let the kids worry about finding a buyer. ;)
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