Task completed.

Well I was mostly right, which I am most of the time. Just don't ask my husband that question. We got the new door up without drawing any blood, but it did take three trips to home depot to get it done. The task took a lot longer than I think we planned on. I also have to admit, I was the first one to drop a F-bomb. But it got things moving a lot faster. Sometimes my hubs likes to over-think things, and dropping some F bombs here and there tends to speed things up. Yes, we did fight some, but made up before we went to bed.  At least I think we did.

We were also able to get a few more things done in the yard today, without too much hassle. But I stayed out of it and let my teenager help my husband. It went so smoothly because he was greatly motivated, the teenager that is, the ability to get to his fathers house faster always seems to speed him up, and makes him a lot happier, and a whole lot less cranky. So we use it every now and then. No we do not use spending time his father as a weapon, but as a tool. He loves being at his fathers, and actually spends more time there than here, and on the days he is to go back over, he likes to move that along sooner than later.

Today, I wanted to get the kitchen ready to paint, if you have ever painted you know darn well that getting things prepped takes a whole heck of a lot more time that the actual painting, and it is also a total pain. Washing down the walls, taping everything off, getting the supplies and paint picked out. This particular color has taken years. When we first moved in we painted just a few rooms with the promise of getting everything else done in due time. I had planned on painting the kitchen yellow, had it all picked out, but it was vetoed. So I put the samples away and left them for another day. about two years later I settled on maybe either green or purple. Green has won out, I want to add touched of copper to the room, I would love to add a back splash, but that is a pipe dream at this point. So is painting really, but you can't get mad at a woman for not getting her projects done, and at the same time, not let her do them. Right?

So I have the color picked finally, after another two years. So if I am lucky and play my cards right, we just might have a freshly painted kitchen before the weekend is out. But than again, it might just take another fours years.

I have all my life loved doing various things, one of them happens to be redecorating, not just a house, but anything really. I will be just about anywhere and I think about how I would redo the place, what colors, textures and art work I would add. I have even gone to school for this, but I have lost my sense of self too much to do anything more than day dream about it.  Maybe, along with the changes I am making to my eating, I can make changes to my determination and my mind set and just do it, and push myself.  Maybe I can get my house in order and get my mind in order. But it is one step at a time, and I have been pushed in all sorts of directions, and been pulled in many others.  I have said it before and will say it many more times, it is a journey and you can't get there in one day, especially if you don't have a map.