So, I would like to say I am about half done with cleaning/reorganizing my kitchen, which might be true, but I really don’t know. The girlfriend and I have done a lot in there, and it actually looks like it, but there’s still a lot to do. I can’t say I am half done mostly because I haven’t been doing it alone, and wouldn’t be nearly as far without her. Anyway, who knows how much more before we’re done.

I need to get back on top of things with this house. There was a time, inexcusably long ago, when I was happy with the way things were and the progress being made, but due to some unforeseen things (acts of Magog, finances, some stupid comments made by people…people better used as fuel for bonfires, etc.), I quit trying. And things that I was on top of piled up. It got to where I couldn’t see my way clear without a lot of work just to get back to where I’d been. Intimidating work.

If I said I took a couple days off work to get some of this shit done I’d be mostly lying. I took time off because my girlfriend wanted to take some time off. Worked out that she suggested it at a time when I needed it. And we did make a few runs at the kitchen, but we far from attacked it. We got a lot of outdated food thrown away, we got a lot of surfaces cleaned, we got about half the shelves lined, we…well, we made progress. Which is more than I can say for just myself.

We have more time off in July. I really want it all done before then, mostly so we can actually use it while we have a real vacation. I won’t be sad if real progress is lacking until then, but I am once again optimistic. I think I see a light (and no, not Jesus calling me home or the train at the end of the tunnel). We’ve managed to make that room a place that no longer scares me. Makes me think it we knock this one out that other rooms might be doable.

Maybe, just maybe, eventually I can make this place into my home.

p.s. I also cleaned the bathroom, and put a new toilet seat on the pot, all by myself, so now even the Pope his own damn self could shit in there (I have it one good authority he’s used to doing this in the woods).