Progress and other rambles

We're making progress! The initial plumbing work passed on its first inspection. The concrete work passed its first inspection, too. Tho' I won't go into detail about the massive cluster f... that occurred in order to get the inspection done. Today the concrete gets poured. Next week we move onto walls. HOORAY!!!!

I'm thinking about getting the cabinets from the Habitat Re-Store. They will be cheaper, and I'll be able to stain them myself. Then I can make sure they match the stupid blue tables that I have to strip, sand, and varnish. Of course that means that I have to LEARN to strip, stain, and varnish. This should be a fun project for the woman with no time =)

In other news, I still have to get a copy of my bill from the x-ray folks in order to move forward with the legal issues related to the accident. Maybe some day it will be finished. It still creeps me out to drive over where my car was. Every day. And some times I still have flashes of the accident--like it's about to happen again. Maybe some day that will end.

Took Miss E up to the Brushy Creek reunion this past Labor Day. In the weeks leading up to the trip I was boring the hubby with story after story of family history--funny quirky details I remember from my childhood (like THIS great uncle used to cook squirrel stew and shoot possums in his yard, and THIS great aunt had bottle red hair til the day she died). What I realized on the drive up there is that 1-Tyler is very far away and I can't believe I visited Mom up there as much as I did with baby E, and 2-when I make the trip, I feel like I'm going home. I breathe deeper, feel calmer (well family drama aside), it smells better. I think when I die I want my ashes spread up in the piny woods. Happy thoughts, I know. But I guess it's good to hammer these details out while I still have the mental capacity to do it.

I think in the coming weeks I should have the website up for the shop, and then I'll have a clearer vision of what I really want this blog to be.