October is a busy month.
This month is full of grant applications that are due in two week increments. We’re also making a lot of presentations around the county to school districts about our potential educational programming. And, we’re getting together our newsletter. Plus, I have a bunch of meetings for regional organizations that we want to be more active in. Oh, and we got to go to Columbia to accept an award. Obviously, all of this is very exciting and awesome and I’m glad to be busy at work.
But, this month is also full of remodelling, of scraping wallpaper and trying to get sleep and meet deadlines. In the next two weeks, we need to go from where the house is currently at to having it livable. This means we need to:
- Finish the drywall in the kitchen (just a few walls) and in the new master closet (all four walls) and pantry (all four walls and the ceiling)
- Mud the drywall in the kitchen, new master closet, and pantry
- Take down the rest of the wallpaper in the three upstairs bedrooms and both bathrooms
- Patch drywall where wallpaper damaged the drywall as it came down, or the drywall was bad in the first place
- Clean the residue of work zone off house
- Paint the whole house
- Lay laminate
- Get the carpet installed
- Get the cabinets/kitchen installed
- Move
Then, voila, a house.
This is all very stressful, but I think I’ll enjoy the slower pace of winter when we get settled in. And maybe I’ll start eating better, eating at home more, and experimenting with new recipes. I really want to get into eating more local food but so far, we’re too busy to think about anything and just getting a bottle of milk is a chore that gets pushed to the bottom of our list. While I dream about a future with knitting and local foods and whole foods and just simply not gross foods, I must say that if there is one thing I’ve learned during both of these projects it’s simple: Sleep is good, very good, and you should do it whenever you feel tired without regard to how lame your idea of a good friday night is.