i’m writing this post via email, from a blackberry, whilst sitting in an impromptu meeting about god knows what (but undoubtedly something work related, as that’s where i’m at).  email, allowing me to post on this site- which i update far too seldomly, due to the whole “nothing done to the house to update about” thing. 
email is also taunting me: ads from home depot and lowes, spouting off great deals on must have materials, items and tools… lumber suppliers sending their current deals… numerous emails stating my member is insufficient to please women… sales for things i either don’t want, or can’t afford…
it’s a shame i can’t work on the house via email.

as far as actual work to the house- rebecca raked the dead leaves compost out of the front yard to make the house a bit more presentable.  we’ve got a bunch of chicken chicks we’re raising (not entirely sure how that’s home improvement related, but i don’t have much to write so don’t burst my bubble). 

i sense i’ll be called upon to speak in this meeting shortly, apparently to convince someone why we need something, explain what that something is, and justify the cost of that something.  now just to figure out what that something is…

having a “real” job… meaning being in the office from 8am ’till at least 5:30 plus a couple hours after getting home, with nary a respectable amount of time taken for lunch (respectable = 3hrs… this 45 minute thing is ass)… is putting a crimp in the plans of working on the house daily.  or even weekendly (it’s a word), because everything that can’t be done during the week has to be squeezed into weekends.  in short, nothing has been done to the house since the last post.  at least nothing outside of my imagination.

now… within the imagination… the house is looking stellar.  nicely painted, all the trim actually attached to the house, landscaping other than mud, a completed upstairs, a real master bedroom, home office, play room, craft room, nice kitchen, a blue llama bouncing on the trampoline (hey, i said imagination) and even a bit of new furniture here and there.  the camera doesn’t seem to capture any of that stuff… so no pics to post.

there are a couple hours of awake, non-working time once getting home from the office… but as i’d like to make sure my family actually knows me (unlike my coworkers and their families), i spend a bit of time with them, rather than working on the house.  weekends go by very, very fast… last weekend was the wee one’s 2nd birthday; we spent the whole time playing with her, and hoping that guests didn’t bail down our funky front steps, trip on the half torn-up kitchen or bathroom floors, or comment on the blue tarp in the front yard or piles of stuff in the driveway.  don’t quite know where this weekend went… but know the house looks just like it did before the weekend.

at least the heater is working, the mechanicals on the house are functional, and the place is mostly clean and livable.  (plastic-covered, heat leaking gaping hole where there used to be windows? don’t know what you’re talking about)