Update, schmupdate

Hey, remember this? So far: kitchen faucet replaced. New one is pfucking pfantastic. half price books were half priced. $19.50 closet emptied, old shelves ripped out (sledgehammer good), all painted, new storage installed. Storage is a good thing. Bedroom – painted. Needs a second coat, but first? Dinner. (motivation? Santa just keeps coming)

Extreme Makeover, North Pole Edition

Christmas break is the perfect time to tear up perfectly good (yet cluttered) living spaces and get ready to remodel. Or, so I hear. And ‘remodel’ is our own cheapass way of doing it, we can’t afford a real rip-down-the-walls type of remodel, so today we are: Replacing the kitchen faucet, which after a dozen […]

How timely!

I’m cleaning my desk (hello, 1999 called and wants their training manuals back) and I’ve unearthed a book on ‘de-junking your life.’ That was given to me six years ago. Just in the nick of time!