I may rival sara in new house talk, fair warning.

Built.in.bookshelves. IJS.

I haven't prattled much lately because we haven't made a lot of progress till now. But once the shelves are up and the breakfront's assembled, we really will FINALLY be unpacked. We like the wall color, so no painting, except the doors and trim in the hall (walnut to white) to brighten the dark space.

We got the last posters (that we've had stored in their portfolio for *decades* because there was nowhere to hang them) framed and hung and they look fabulous. We're living with the things we've hung and the furniture placement until we see how it all looks and works and how it might be better. There will be more pictures once it's done.

...and then we may tackle the kitchen. Floor and cabinets. I'd like to strip the room back to the studs and start over, but I don't think we can afford it. The appliances are all fine--LOVE the cooktop and wall oven, though I want to paint black enamel over the harvest gold oven door--except the dishwasher and disposal, which we don't use anyway. The dishwasher will go, and a useful stack of drawers will go in its place. I hope we can save the cabinet carcasses and counters and just replace the fronts, with new doors and hardware. And a quick and dirty peel and press vinyl tile floor is more than adequate.

So, no worries about new house burbling. It's sort of inevitable.

in such good company.

so yeah. we will close 3/30 if inspection is clear. holy moley.

I am at Denny's in Oak Park. Denny's apparently believes Bitches is not a suitable thread for a family restaurant, as it's blocked. Other threads seem OK.

I just measured, I will lose 55 sq ft from my bedroom, but when I saw the new measurements (13x11) laid out, it will be totally fine. There are 2 closets in there that you can't see in the pictures.

we move into our new house in June and I'm sure I will be all house house house for a while.

I love all the house talk, especially the details about fixing stuff up.

java - sadly Texas never really felt like home even when I lived there growing up. My parents being there makes it feel somewhat homey, and this particular house feels like me, so there is that.

That makes sense; after all, you moved to New York and (I think) love it. I wonder when Mac's all grown up, you'll find yourself back in NYC. But of course that's years from now and in the meantime you have an adorable house to fix up and enjoy! Mac's uncle sure will miss him.

I have scheduled a hair appointment for tomorrow. Now I probably should decide what I want my stylist to do.

Molecular structure jewelry

I dig these geek chic molecular necklaces featured in our Boing Boing Bazaar at the Makers Market! Above is caffeine (left) and dopamine (right). Also available: serotonin, DMT, and others!

I kind of love this cut, but I somehow doubt that I could get my hair to look like that without a significant time investment in the morning.

Happy birthday, Jon!

Evaluation appointment is in early March, smonster. Hopefully there won't be much delay between that and getting the procedure done. The procedure itself is no fun, but now that the last one has worn off it's clear that it was definitely helping.

Picked up prescriptions on the way home. I asked about the amount of injectable Imitrex I received, since I thought he prescribed me nine doses, and they just gave me two. Oops on their part--although insurance won't cover nine, they had only dispensed half as much as they should have. Good thing I caught something. Though what I totally didn't catch until the cab home was the fact that I have no injection mechanism, just the doses. Checking on getting that now.

I love all the house-ownership talk. I don't know if it's anything I'll ever do, but it's great to vicariously experience.