Yesterday was a full day. We got ourselves up early and headed out the door to the hardware store. When we were getting married, we had a themed engagement party that was focused all on decorating and cleaning our new house. We didn’t own the house at that point but it seemed a great theme so that we would have some things towards making any new house we bought our own. Well, yesterday we had some of those handy gift cards in our hands as we headed out to the hardware store. The weekend before we had used a bunch of cards towards paint, crown moulding and all the paraphernalia that is required to get those jobs done. We did the same yesterday. We picked up seven new door handles to replace some of the interior door handles, we picked up samples of trim for doorways, more paint for painting the doors, rollers, brushes. Pretty quickly the total ran up and I was even more grateful to all those family and friends that gave us those gift cards. In fact, the bulk of what we have purchased so far has been with gift cards from that engagement party. One of our other engagement parties was a stock the wine cellar party; we will enjoy that wine once we have moved in and the house is finished!
We went to the house in the afternoon for a couple of hours and painted my new office! It looks great and between the two of us it didn’t take very long. Now all three bedrooms upstairs are painted, the ceilings and crown moulding complete. Just have to do the finishing touches to the rooms and they will be move in ready. It felt great painting the office, I could see myself working on the cookbook or perhaps the next one in that little room with my Mac. Friends stopped by while we were there and we all discussed how to renovate the kitchen. It got me excited but despite all the dreaming in the world, I am pretty sure those renovations will have to wait. The bank accounts are drained! All in good time.
We had to leave the house early. Last night we headed out of the city to have dinner and a theatre show for my sister-in-law’s seventieth birthday. It was called Nanny’s Naughty Knickers! Dinner was a buffet which was pretty good, although I have to admit I have never seen meatloaf served on a buffet before and the show was funny. We gave Jill a pair of naughty knickers as a gag gift for her birthday, which gave her a good laugh. The show passed quickly, a bit over-acted but funny all the same. It was nice to be out with family and honestly it was nice to have a break from constantly thinking about the cookbook and the house renovations. It has refreshed me to hit the skids again today and make big progress on the book. I have about one hundred reflections written out by hand for the cookbook so I think today’s job is to get them all typed into the draft and see what is remaining to do on the book. I think I am almost done, suddenly. Last couple of weeks seem like blur but now I feel much better about getting it done on time and completed the way I want it. The publisher wants a draft but there is still a chance to change anything I want after I get back the proof so I am hoping it will be exactly as I want it by the time it is final and locked at their presses! Today, my goals are the cookbook and get the laundry caught up!!! Oh, the exciting life I am leading.
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