Reading: Armageddon In Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
Music: Joni Mitchell
TV/Movie: Moral Orel
Link o' the Day: DoItYourself.com

Much to do, much to do, so a quickish entry this morning.

Last night I began the process of signing away a good portion of my life to a mortgage. Eh. I suppose I should be somewhat freaked by signing on the the biggest debt I've ever had, but I'm looking it more like I'm signing a 30-year lease where, after the 30 years, we own a house free and clear. Many, many pages with many spots to initial and several to sign fully. It wasn't the actual mortgage lending documents yet, but the sales agreements with the broker. Who knows, maybe when we're at the bank and the pen is actually touching the final loan agreement--then the hand will start to shake. For now, though, it's still not quite real.



I hope it all works out. I'm looking forward to having a decent working kitchen with a real working stove. While I've become an absolute expert in the art of alternative cooking methods, I can't wait until I can actually cook a meal where I can cook all the components all at once. And bake items larger than a toaster oven. Bake cookies more then eight at a time. The new kitchen may appear small in these pics, but it's larger than it looks and is more workable than my current setup. (The pictures really only show about half the space.) The fridge in my new kitchen is huge, with a larger freezer than what I currently have--with ice maker. And a dishwasher!

I feel like a caveman who's discovering the Renaissance.

So yeah, I don't mind going through with this. And right off this working kitchen is a nice enclosed back porch where I can sit each morning with a cup of coffee and look out over the back yard and contemplate mowing the grass.

Welcome to domesticity.

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We'll skip over the work log today. Suffice to say I've got a full day ahead of me. Instead I'll offer up today's link which is: DoItYourself.com. Big surprise, huh? I wouldn't call this the most detailed site for Do It Yourself home projects, but it has a lot of range and looks to me a good starting place for researching do-it-yourself projects at home. In keeping in line with the topic of our potential new home, I will have to finish the basement at some point--although parts of it are already done. At some point I'll need to do some landscaping. There are tips on gardening, plumbing, painting. The whole gory mess.

Welcome to it.

Cheers!