One Step Forward, Six Hundred Fifty-Five Million Steps Back

Okay, so the floors are done. Pictures to follow when I can find the digital camera. And the cord to charge it with.


Do they look amazing? You ask.


Yes. They look amazing!


And you got busy putting everything back and it now looks like a totally new house, right?


Umm, well...You'd think it'd be that easy, wouldn't you? But, see, once this kind of project is done, you kind of have to "move back in" to your house. And Hubby thinks only 1/3 of the c#*p (his word) that was in the upstairs should be moved back in.


So, it's going more like this:

~Move the important stuff first, like the TV in the master bedroom. But don't plan on hooking it up, because who knows where the cords are to connect it to the DVD player, or the remote is to turn it on.


~Decide that now is a good time to switch around some furniture, like the armoire in the master bedroom. Let's put it in the 6YO's room. Which means we have to put the dresser that WAS in her room somewhere else. And all of the stuff that was in the armoire in our room will need to go--somewhere else.


~Realize that moving one person out of the largest room in the house and into one of the smallest rooms of the house presents a small furniture challenge--namely where to put the electric organ that her great grandmother gave to her.


~Decide that it can go on the wall where the school shelves are, if the school shelves can go on the wall where an old, beat-up buffet is. Be really thankful that you don't have a big shop for Hubby to put beat-up buffet in (that's what he wants to do with it).


~Move "Brownie" (6YO's new bunny rabbit) up to her room to clear space in the laundry room for the Victorian Dollhouse that was sitting on top of the beat-up buffet. Do a very "classy" thing, and stick the beat-up buffet at the end of the driveway with a "free" sign on it. All it needs now to give it that "panache" is an old recliner or a broken toilet next to it.

At this point, about six hours have passed. Nothing looks very different. There is still no furniture in the living room, and the family room looks like a badly organized thrift store or yard sale threw up in it.

So, to deal with all of this, make yet another mess in the kitchen by making a strong cup of coffee, or a strong cocktail, grab a book, and "escape the madness."

Because, in the words of Scarlett O'Hara: "Tomorrow is another day."