Photo of the Day

An appropriate first photo.

I went to New Jersey today. I got two boxes of my things that had been moved from Mom's to Emily's to Grandmother's to Dad's to my step-aunt's in Edison, NJ. I pulled up in front of our building to unload them, but a parking place became available on our street, so I snatched it. The boxes went into the trunk. Either Todd will walk them down the street, or I will bring the car to the building and unload before we go raspberry picking tomorrow.

We are no longer going to the budgeting workshop tomorrow. It turns out:
A: you have to register (we didn't)
B: it is from 9-4, not 9-1 (we have plans at 3)
C: and there is serious advance homework required.

So tomorrow we will be painting the shelves of the bookshelves. Construction of these shelves is epic, unending, something I can count on as a constant in my life. They are well constructed, sturdy-- a manifest of Todd's engineering. I'm sincerely hoping we finish by the time Juli and Peanut come visit.

In the "other ongoing" category:
Must write thank yous.
Must register the car.
Must find accident report. I accidentally lost it.
Must register the dog.
Must study for rotation exam.
Must come up with four people for physicals.
Must study for end of rotation "quiz".

I'm thinking about finding a small dresser to go in the foyer. It could hold our overflow-- the extra Q-tips, toilet tissue, saline solution, breath busters-- the things that come in multiples, hold Kuyper's supplies, and hold the less often used office supplies. I'd also like a fresh flower and a lamp there, with one of the pressed aluminum Deco trays to hold Todd's pocket contents. If I didn't have a flower, I could use the purple bowl and put a fern in there.

I painted the risers in the foyer Benjamin Moore "iris bliss"-- a gray/purple. It looks like a shadow until you look right at it. I'm not sure that I like it-- I thought it would click with me right away and it doesn't. But I only put the second coat on today, so maybe I'll come home tomorrow and fall in love.

Ok. Time to go to bed.