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This entire post is mostly to organize my thoughts, make something I can come back to, refresh my memory so I don’t forget — again. That book I got in college from a friend should’ve had a theme not of, “oh, the places you’ll go,” but “the places you’ll redo.”
Things left undone, by room.

First, our garage as it was, for the first year or so of living here:

Then we moved one of the kitchen base cabinets out to the garage…which eventually became my workshop area and general dump-everything space. Sigh.
After that hell-realization of my garage/workshop having been intruded-violated-theived, I began a furious double-reason attack on the space. [...]

Welcome to Texas: we have a mommy bird and her babies living in our garage.
She comes in and out, feeding them constantly, and she doesn’t seem to mind if I’m within two or three feet, so long as I don’t touch (which I wouldn’t). Considering there’ve been plenty of times I’m out in the garage [...]

Not the entirety of my todo but it’s at least the doable, not-too-emotinally-stressful, no-failure-fear, house-related part. At least now I can strike off each part and be done with it. (Too bad I’m making the list now rather than three days ago, or I could add: regrout & seal, recaulk master bath, and then knock [...]

The odd comments here and there about kitchens made me stop and think of what we’ve done so far — as I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and I am, finally, beginning to think it just might not be a giant robot. Yay.
Well, for starters, we replaced every appliance but [...]

If you ask me (and you’re reading, so that counts as asking), it’s important to be aware of the importance of home as sacred space, as a place that’s both protective and inviolate and removed from what’s-out-there. And, as long as we feel like intruders or permanent guests or not-really-here in undecorated/uncommanded homes/spaces, we never [...]

After the last week or so of nonstop go-go-go (with the final note of it all being the news a friend is shipping off to Iraq for a month, sigh), I realized the best sanity saver is to avoid deep thoughts and chase the shiny, which for me will always be How To Occupy Space. [...]

My grandmother used to call it “getting or-gin-ized,” where /gin/ is the same as the alcoholic beverage.
Right on the tails of the Amazing Wardrobe Reconstruction, I seem to be feeling this sudden flare-up of Virgoan Organization Syndrome, which is quite peculiar. It only happens about every two or three years, and it’s quite terrifying; there [...]