This post is just a "checking in" post.  Jamie leaves very early tomorrow morning for 3 months.  So to occupy my time since my bestie is leaving and I won't have to cook (bonus!) I am focusing on painting the house.  Luckily Grandma Robin is coming down sometime this week to help.  We will also enjoy the visit and hopefully get to a couple antique shops or find a salvage yard.  I have big plans for a headboard that involves an old door.  Anyway, I must accomplish painting the living room and kitchen and taking wallpaper down in the main bath.  I hope to tackle the kitchen cabinets while she is here as well.  Last on my list of redesign is the master bedroom.  I just re-read what I wrote and I am reminded of those crazy people on HGTV who buy a house and think the can renovate it in like 2 weeks and it ends up taking them 6 months.  My first room is going to be the living room because it only needs a paint job and I really need instant gratification at this point.  Then the dreaded main bath. 

In other news, I love area here and running over the hills and through the woods is a great change from flat hot nothingness and doing it against 40 MPH headwinds no matter what direction you are going. 

Please stay tuned as I hope to have the living room done by next week, yay!