Day 9: Home improvement pondering

It's Thursday and the end is near, I fear. Whenever Vacation 2005 began approaching, we started having luscious dreams of home improvement. We had visions of completed painting projects, shiny new light fixtures and ceiling fans, and a glistening tiled back entry.

We plotted. We planned. We made multiple lists. So, how did we find ourselves, one real day of vacation left and nothing completed or even started.

We did buy the light fixtures. We selected the tile. We even have the paint and brand spanking new brushes. Originally we had the supplies in our living room, waiting to be used, waiting to be installed, but they mocked me, so I put them in the basement in hopes they would no longer guilt me. Now whenever I go down there to do laundry, I avoid their gaze. I look away in denial.

However, it's starting to hit me that if we don't make a dent in that list, we may never get it done. Once we go back to work and re-enter the real world, there won't be time or energy to get them done. We won't have the will and the desire, so the buckets of paint, the boxes of light fixtures will only get dusty. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe never. Who knows.

The photo above is of Ike and Cooper snuggling on the bed. You know you have been in the house too long whenever you take at least four photographs each day of your cats. Someone save us.