Anywhoo, it's been a pretty blah day with work and what-not. I really wish my co-workers would get their stuff together! Would make my life and job a lot more pleasing. :D I thought I'd share a couple of goals that I want to accomplish some in the V. V. near future, some further out, but no later than Christmas-time. I don't want our Christmas party guests to come into our hovel. "Enjoy!" ♥Tear down bookshelves in the room that will become "the office" ♥Find a L-shaped or U-shaped desk for the office so that we have plenty of space to S P R E A D O U T. ♥Put the closet organizer into the closet so that I can store all my craft, scrapbooking, sewing supplies as well as office supplies. ♥Put closet doors BACK on the closet. (Yes, this is a problem in that room.) ♥Paint the bookshelf wall a contrast color since it didn't get painted when the rest of the room did due to the bookshelves being bolted...BOLTED... into the wall. ♥Move computer and office equipment into that room. ♥Add accessories, new window blind, new window dressing. ♥Buy bookshelves for the new "library" ♥Convince Doug that he does NOT need that many books on history!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ♥Place newly pared down books onto luffly bookshelves in library. ♥Purchase a sleeper sofa or futon for the library for seating and additional bed if necessary. ♥Add accessories, new window dressing and hang THAT closet door back. (See a trend?) ♥Paint new guest room ♥Move in bed and appropriate bedroom furniture for the guests. ♥Put closet doors back on.....(Yes, AGAIN...you see, I have a problem.) I'm sure this isn't ALLLL. As I also do want to purchase a new family room sofa since I HATE, HATE, HATE...*STABS IT*...the sofa we bought last year!! Stupid thing...I am NEVER purchasing another sofa from La-z-boy. EVER. AS LONG AS I LIVE, NEVER. Stupid cushions on the back are all squooshed down, the fabric looks horrible no matter WHAT I do to it. Microfiber is easy to clean my A$$! *takes a deep calming breath* So yeah, this is by no means an exhaustive list, it's just a beginning....and since I like lists and all.....welllllll, you get the picture.

Seriously, I'm so hungry here that when I wrote "toasty" my stomach growled! I hate working early in the AM. hate, hate, hate it. I dunno if it's the job (which I know I hate) or if it's the morning (which I hate) that makes it so bad. My mother once asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said a "tu-tu girl"...LOL I think I have changed that. I want to be a housewife. I want to play around with my scrapbooks all day (digital and paper.) I want to paint. I want to sew. I want to take the dogs for walks. I want to volunteer at the library, at the animal shelter, etc. I want to clean house. I want to work on home improvement projects. I want to organize my home office. I want to be able to watch a mid-day television program while I eat my turkey and cheese sandwich on wheat bread with light mayonnaise and spicy brown mustard. (See, I'm hungry!) I want to iron our clothes. I want to bake cookies. I want to go to the gym. I want to sit around on the sofa, watch soap operas, and eat truffles. (Okay, maybe not, but the truffles sound good!!) But alas, I cannot. We live in the San Francisco bay area. My husband has a great job and gets paid a fabulous salary...if we lived somewhere else in the United States. Anywhere. (Mostly.) Big cities and smaller cities and rural areas like Vegas, Phoenix, Reno, Louisville, Galveston, the list goes on and on (as long as it isn't Utah or Wyoming or Nebraska or any of those other "way too much snow" or heh...weird places.) But when you are paying $3000/mo mortgage payment for a 4 bedroom, 2 bath house on a quarter acre, I can't be a housewife. *pouts* I know, we could refinance the mortgage back to a 30 year instead of the 12 years we have left on a 15....then we'd NEVER get out of this god-forsaken state as my DH thinks that the mortgage must be paid in order to move. HELLO. We can GET another mortgage someplace else and we'll STILL make a ton of money off the sale once we pay off the exisiting! We have 70% equity in this *kicks it* house. And houses like ours in the neighborhood are going for $800K. EIGHT HUNDRED FREAKIN' THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR A FOUR BEDROOM RANCH STYLE HOUSE BUILT IN THE 1980s! (Luckily, DH bought ours for MUCH less 12 years ago. I have since moved in and remodeled the entire kitchen, bathrooms, flooring, walls, furniture, etc. LOL) I can't fathom it. I simply do not understand how young families just starting out are able to do it with these prices. And I do understand that he wants to retire from his current school system. Fine. Dandy. That's 12 years away! He'll be 55 and I'll be 45. So in the mean time, I have to work. I have to work so that we can have spendable cash. So we can buy whatever we set our mind to. So we can go on vacation. So that I can buy those earrings from Tiffany's and that Dooney bag from Nordies in the same day. Yes, we could lead a more meager lifestyle. Yes, I could stop working if we did that. However, then I wouldn't be able to afford to do all the fun stuff that I would like to do if I didn't work. We have discussed and I want if we are EVER blessed with children that I not work until they go to school. And after that, I only want to work part-time. This is a problem since the addition of a little person into the household is quite costly. The reduction of my pay with the added cost of a third person, I just don't know if it is doable living here in the bay area, with our 15 year mortgage payments. *SCREAMS* I have no idea what we will do should I ever have a child. Refinance to a 30 year? Me keep working? Do you KNOW how much quality child care is here? We do have plans to move to Kentucky once he retires. I want to go now though! *sigh* Anyway, I'll just go eat me some toast and figure all this out.