Six Months!!!!!

That's right, folks, I'm six months into it now!! I'm hoping I only have another 12 months to wait until I receive my referral, but it, like so many other things, is completely out of my hands.

After the disastrous week I had last week (no job, no interviews, sick, PMS, etc.) I had a much better weekend. In fact, I've had a fabulous weekend! After my violin lesson yesterday morning I came home and fell into the routine I started last week (laying on the couch and watching TV) and I looked around and thought, "I have stuff to do here!" Honestly, the longer I laid there the more my ugly brown mantel started bothering me. It has never fit into the room so I thought it was time to do something about it. I sanded it down, primed it and painted it to match the built-in bookcase in the living room. With that done, I looked around and thought "I can't stand the color of the table and chairs mom and dad brought over!" Just so you know, I don't know squat about this kind of stuff, but now is the time to learn. I hand sanded that badboy by the time I went to bed and today after church I began working on it again. Since I didn't pay for it I'm not the least bit bothered about making it look ugly. By the time I go to bed tonight it will be stained and then I will polyurethane it tomorrow. When I first found out I had lost my job I viewed it as a time to get stuff done and it's time to get started. Now I have a list of things to work on. So, if you call and I don't answer it's because I'm elbows deep in paint.