 And this is the "clean" version of her room.  Oh, the toys. Here we have pictures of two very messy rooms.
These rooms belong to my children. These rooms are messy because my children have SO MANY TOYS that there is no room to adequately store them all. My house is slowly being consumed by toys. Down the hallway, in the living room, dining room, and in the kitchen are nearly as bad. Even the kids bathroom has toys.
But, notice: there are no children in these rooms, playing with these toys. There never are. I’m honestly not really sure HOW all those toys get all over the place. My kids are always in whatever room I am, causing me to not do my homework. And when I ask how their rooms got so messy, no one claims responsibility. I can only assume that it’s a situation like in the Toy Story movies- they must come alive at night and strew themselves about.
Instead of playing with the bazillion dollars worth of toys they have, my kids prefer to play with laundry baskets, dining room chairs, and the cat scratching post for hours at a time. Always in the same room as me.
I feel a big donation to the thrift shop coming on soon.
Well, I did it. And it was hard. I did my summer semester AND I worked part-time.
And you know what?
I’m crazy!
Seriously, was I effing nuts thinking I could do all that, no sweat? To women out there who work and go to school and have kids and husbands and houses and their houses don’t look like tropical storms swept through and laundry isn’t piled up to the damn ceiling and you can walk across your kitchen without sticking to the floor: I salute you. Seriously. No, I don’t even salute you. I bow at your feet. I gaze at you in awe.
That was the hardest five weeks of my life. I have never been so busy and felt so rushed.
I thought I was going to have to hire someone to poop for me.
All done now though. I turned my English 102 research paper in on Thursday and submitted my Political Science final exam yesterday. I don’t know yet how I did in political science. An A, I hope. But English? That’s my subject. I got a perfect score on my paper. A perfect score. My professor praised my paper and said she thinks I should have it published somewhere. That makes me feel amazingly good! The effort DID pay off.
I also turned in my resignation at work. Today is my last day. I’m enrolled full-time for fall semester. Five weeks of not even having time to breathe about did me in, I can’t do it for four straight months. I’m a bit sad- I do enjoy that job, but something has got to give and it cannot be school or my time with my kids. So, the job goes.
I haven’t exercised in nearly two months. I feel like total crap. Tomorrow, I am back to it. The kids start school on August 22nd. My semester starts August 29th. I have a few weeks of down time and I intend to make the most of it.
You know, if you were wondering about that.
Case in point:
I rearranged my office yesterday. It took me 4 or 5 tries to find a way to make it look right, and over 2 hours. And now I’m baffled by a huge, blank wall.
Isn’t there something about spring that makes you want to rearrange furniture? This doesn’t only happen to me, right? Anyway. Yesterday, I had the worst sinus headache that wouldn’t go away no matter what I took for it or how much caffeine I drank. I really should have worked out but copped out on account of feeling like my head was going to explode… and instead I decided to rearrange my office and REALLY clean it. Which actually did not help the headache either but it made me happy anyway.
Before, my desk was facing a wall, in a corner and apparently that restricts/blocks your personal energy according to Feng Shui. Eh, whatever. I just don’t like staring at a wall, ok? So I basically just moved the desk out and rotated everything on it so now I face the room. Here’s how my office looks now:
Um, I’d totally show you a ‘before’ picture if I’d thought to take one. I didn’t though, so you just have to trust me that this is way better. Because it is. Yes, yes, I need to organize the junk on the shelves. I’ll get to that. Eventually. Probably.
So now I have a more workable area. It’s easier to get to the shelves by my desk and I can look right out the window while I sit here and space out instead of getting anything done. See?
Ok so now here’s the part where I’m kind of stumped. I have a huge, blank blue wall behind me. I’ve really got to get something on there. I was thinking something like this (this is from Uppercase Living):
 It’s almost 5 ft tall. I think it could look cool there. But it’s also $100 so that’s a pretty big commitment to make to a chunk of vinyl I’m not really sure that I love.
Help?
Two posts in one day, WOW.
Tim is outside right now working on our fence. I am so excited about that! Our yard is going to be awesome this year. We’re putting up a 6 ft privacy fence all around the side yard, and then we’re going to put in grass and probably a sandbox and one of those huge wooden swingsets. It’s going to be like little kid wonderland, plus I will feel secure letting them be out there without me having to sit around outside, since it’s going to be all fenced in. Our bedroom currently has a window looking out onto that yard but we’re going to be putting in a French door so I will be able to have direct access into the yard, plus I’ll be able to check on them without having to go all the way out and open the gate. Also, I am going to have a massive veg garden this year, and we’re putting in a few fruit trees and shade trees.
I’m just so happy with my house! I love it. It feels homey, I love the layout, I love the high ceilings and all the natural light that comes in, and the location, and the huge yard. I am pleased with everything about it! I was worried that since it was a little bit out of town, I’d eventually resent having to make the drive, but instead, it turns out that I love the little bit of solitude and quiet we get, plus I’ve turned into a more efficient shopper. I thought it’d be a pain to have to do the whole yard pretty much from scratch but it’s actually awesome because we can make it exactly how we want to. There are some improvements we’d like to eventually do, such as turning our massive pantry into a playroom/media room for the kids and remodeling the kitchen, and turning the “sitting room” in our master suite into an office with its own door off the living room (rather than having to go through the bedroom)… but it’s nothing that we can’t live with for a couple of years.
Ok, so this post didn’t have a real point. I just like my house, that’s all. 
My town is small. It’s very small. The majority of places in town, including our old house, are three minutes from anywhere. Three minutes is the maximum amount of time it used to take me to get any place in town, including having to sit through stop lights (of which there are, I believe, a grand total of five.) I moved to a slightly rural area- an area with one very long, straight, two-lane street leading in and out. If you get to go the listed speed limits it takes roughly twelve minutes to get into town. This means:
- I will always be behind someone who is going anywhere from five to ten miles under the speed limit.
- Unless I am in front of a cop. Then it’s all clear ahead of me.
- I will forget at least three things every time I go to the store.
- But I will never remember to get all three things during the first trip back in.
- Any time I am running late, at least one of my children will need to poop. And then probably not be able to find their shoes.
I will get used to it eventually. I will stop forgetting things eventually. Until then I will waste too much gas driving into town for things like lemons and paper towels.
Tim is in Wyoming right now for another mine rescue competition. He works shift work- for a few days out of each month, he is on night shifts. He hasn’t had a night shift since we moved into our new house, as he took some vacation time for the move. So my first night without him in the house wasn’t just a night shift where he comes home at 7:00 am! It’s a run of five nights and six days and I’ll admit, it was a little creepy the first night. I’m getting braver by the minute though. Wait… what was that sound?
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