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Renovations Almost Done!

elorg — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:55:34 +0000

The first floor renovations on our house are nearly done! We’ve almost finished the minimum needed in order to meet our goal – host Thanksgiving. We’ll still have a bit of work to do on the front section of the first floor, but that’s functional-enough and not really necessary at the moment. I doubt we’ll have time to move forward with that remaining portion – and if we did, it’d just be opening a big can of worms (re: would make a big mess).

Once that’s all done, we’re going to finish scrubbing the house down – it’s collected a TON of dust and dirt and clutter from the nearly-6-month-long renovation project. And then – BAKING! My favorite part.

Once we make it through the weekend, I want to focus on finishing up that front portion of the first floor. Why? Because that’s where my drawing desk (I call that section, “my studio”) is located, and I’m just itching to be able to put it to use! Do I smell a New Year’s resolution?

We’ll see.

Anyway. I’m going to go through the probably-hundreds of photos that I’ve collected from the renovation so far and post some before-during-after photos on the house blog. Keep an eye open for those! What a difference… It’s a whole new house!

Silent Halloween

elorg — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:35:50 +0000

My sinus infections are becoming more few and far between – as long as I take care of myself and start taking my allergy stuff at the first sign of irritation. Last week (or was it the week before already?) I didn’t act soon enough. I’m paying for that now and recovering from another mild sinus infection. I think this is only the second one this year?

Anyway. I’ve been coughing quite a bit and have a lot of congestion. I spoke too much yesterday with a sore throat. My voice did sound pretty cool yesterday though. But now I’ve lost my voice. Work should be interesting today.

Happy Halloween.

Happy Holidays!!

elorg — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 21:42:30 +0000

Season’s greetings to everyone! Christmas day has been pretty dismal with the 35 degree & raining weather. We were hoping for at least a little snow, but that didn’t happen. Maybe next year.

Otherwise the holiday has been pretty nice. I took Thursday and Friday off of work, so I had a nice 5 day weekend. Unfortunately, I got sucked into being a couch potato for the majority of the weekend, so I didn’t end up doing the majority of what I had hoped to accomplished. Maybe next weekend?

My budget is kind of tight these days. If I don’t have your address, please send it to me and I’ll send you a card shortly (yes, a bit late, but you’ll understand soon enough).