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Back To Normal

/ Dawn Kasal-Finley / 3 Comments

The world is normal again.  My internet is working, all the holiday visiting is over, and we have a new big project to start.  We have a small plumbing leak and have to have a wall ripped out in our bathroom to have it fixed.  So, we are now going to start redoing our bathroom.  We aren’t doing a complete overhaul but enough that our bathroom should look a lot nicer than it does now.  We’ll get a new bathtub and rip down the fake tile that has been mocking me since the day we moved in and put up new tile and I’ll paint it some fabulous color instead of high gloss white.  Our bathroom could quite possibly be the ugliest bathroom in the modern world.  I am happy to have to do it.  I will have to remember this when I am deep into the project and wondering what the hell I was thinking doing this. 

I have a week and a half until classes start again.  I certainly don’t feel like I have been off for over two weeks already.  But sadly, it has been nearly 3 weeks and I have to return to school.  I still don’t know if I will be teaching next semester.  I am low teacher on the totem pole so I get the last little bit of classes available.  I am hoping I get to teach this semster but I will be okay if I don’t.  There are five full-time positions available in August and I am hoping to get an interview.  We’ll see what happens. 

No news on the adoption front.  I don’t expect there to be any until next month at the earliest.  I can be patient (I can try anyway). 

Procrastination 1–Us 0

/ Dawn Kasal-Finley / 1 Comment

As I sit here typing this–I can’t quite give up this posting everyday thing–Hubby is neck deep in electrical wiring in our garage.  We live in a city and our little old house has a detached garage that we are just now–7+ years later–getting ready for me to actually park in.  I know isn’t that a novel idea.  Actually parking in your garage.  Well, my dad and bonus mom bought us a garage door opener for Christmas and it is getting installed tomorrow.  We have known this for over a week.  Hubby decided that he would do the electrical work today as it wouldn’t take very long.  Well, he started at 3pm and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight.  Hubby is doing a good job of not being too mad.  Of course last time he came into the house I’d swear he had sharp sticks poking out of his eye.  I am being a good wife and not saying anything about how it really isn’t good to wait to the last minute, etc.  I am just not sure that would be helpful.  At least not until he has it working.

Well cross your fingers and hope I don’t have to blow some of our Christmas fund on a last minute electrician….

Degree of Loserness

/ Dawn Kasal-Finley / 4 Comments

It only took me 7+ years to buy and hang curtains on the front windows of our house.  So, for all of you who are driving or walking by at night, that is right–you can no longer watch our too big for our house tv nor watch me walk around naked…I know upsetting isn’t it? 

It is nice to finally 1 have some privacy and 2 feel like a grown up in my own house 7 years later….

I will write a list of all the things in our house that it has taken us 7 years or even more to do.  My degree of loserness will defintely increase exponentially.