Moved in but still remodeling

Guess what this is?

Yep, a window at night, with no blinds or curtains, with paint and texture splattered all over the windows. With an old-fashioned camera, I would have known how to blur this to look like gently falling snow. But not with my iphone; I just point and shoot and there you go. Paint splatters.

Most of our windows have paint on the outside, and paint and dry-wall texture gunk on the inside (I don’t know what it’s really called. It’s the stuff you spray on to make texture on your walls).

It comes off fairly easily with a razor blade, but we have a lot of windows, half of them on the second story. And scrapping thousands of dollars worth of brand new glass windows with a razor blade sort of freaks me out. John is assuring me it won’t scratch.

This morning I noticed that John is all out of breakfast cereal (because he eats it for dinner) so I decided to cook grits for breakfast. Do we have pots and pans? Sure we do! Here’s John fetching me a pan.

Seriously! Do you see him down there crawling under the table? LOL!

We haven’t done any unpacking yet because there’s not really anywhere to unpack into.

Installing cabinets in the dining room:

This is a new wall outlet with 2 usb ports:

Pretty cool, hu? The dining room wouldn’t have been my top choice location – it would have made more sense in the office. But the dining room is where John needed to install an outlet, because the new cabinets would block the old one. We can worry about installing fancy outlets in the office later. Much later.

Here’s the office, by the way. There’s no furniture or shelving in the closet, so I don’t know how to unpack these boxes.

You know it’s bad when you start writing notes to each other on the boxes (which have sat there way too long). Back story – I periodically try to reduce the amount of stuff we own, and John often objects. This is in reference to an automated ball-toss machine that we once bought for Kira, our fetch-loving mutt.