Things go either too fast or too slow right now. I’m assuming that my current life lesson is to learn patience and balance. :-)

We have cleaning ladies here right now, to scrub out the kitchen and linen closet cabinets. Those areas were particularly skanky and it’s worth every penny I’m paying them not to have to do it myself. Really. Trust me on that one. So, in a bit I’ll be able to start unpacking kitchen stuff. Meanwhile, I’ve cleaned the upper part of the beautiful built-in china hutch, and I’ll be able to unpack my grandmother’s china into a proper space. I still have to clean the drawers and cabinets on the bottom half, though.

We won’t discuss the contact paper I’ve found and ripped up. [shudder]

Ken’s spent the past two days doing engineering-type things. The gas pipe where we’re going to put the stove turned out to be a gas pipe for a dryer, so we had to put an adaptor on that. Despite the fact that the overall plumbing was recently redone (thank goodness!), the pipes for the washer were not done (probably because people were using the connections in the room off the garage rather than the enclosed utility porch off the kitchen, where we want the washer and dryer). So he’s spent most of today under the house.

In other news, the linoleum for the downstairs bath, porch, and kitchen that we thought we liked turns out to be perfectly period design for the house. It looks like tile and will be much easier to care for. So when we have the downstairs bathroom ripped apart (necessary, because things are messed up underneath and the toilet is severely tilting), we can put in the new linoleum.

That was a very convoluted, backwards paragraph.