This blog will resume

I have not abandoned this blog. I am, however, taking time off from writing, which means blogging will be semi-regular, every few days until the first week of 011. (012 as I put it in originally was the result of my not knowing what the year is. Which will tell you how awake and well I am.)

Mostly because, having got my head off writing, I’ve started noticing stuff around the house that has been waiting for a good day to get done. Like… my bathroom. For seven years we’ve been living with LARGE floral wallpaper in a very small master bathroom. For three years, we’ve been living with very large floral PEELING wallpaper — see thing about small bathroom used for showers, sometimes morning and nighttime. Yeah. I’ve been meaning to paint it. Every morning when I get up, I look around and go “Oh, heavens, must strip this wallpaper and paint it.”

Also, since the people who did up the house for selling used the cheapest possible workarounds we had a pedestal sink and almost no storage. In a bathroom that, being the master bathroom, stores all the stuff anyone in the family might need in the middle of the night — cough medicine, antacid, as well as our stock of shampoo and soap (look, if we give it to the kids they lose it. No, seriously.) For three or four years we’ve made do with two very small bookcases, which also take whichever books I’m reading at the time. But I’ve dreamed of mounting glass shelves on the wall and had bought one large and long enough to serve as a counter.

Well, on Friday I started cleaning the bathroom and looked up at the peeling wallpaper and something snapped. So… I spent the next three days painting it — weirdly? Cantelope. No, that’s the color’s name. Should be overwhelming, but it’s very pretty and “sunny” — and doing two griffin stencils, one on each facing wall. Yeah, it would only have been two days, only having virtually no visual reasoning, I did one of the griffins face down. (I know, I know.) Then we got three more glass shelves, smaller, and I mounted them under the other one. Other than the fact I had to buy another hamper, it worked out fine. I’m glad it’s done.

When I have time, I’ll do the other upstairs bathroom. The downstairs one is our steampunk bathroom. (You don’t want to ask, right?) Meanwhile there are things that MUST be done. Like, we REALLY should put the basement back together, now that the freezer is in place. And I must do something about my craft corner. And I must re-cover the sofa in the movie room. All of these things have been waiting for years, and it’s time they were done.

And sometime in there I want to write a couple of very not commercial (at least not under my own name!) things.

Oh, yeah, and our anniversary is on the 28th. Silver anniversary, so I’d like to kidnap my husband and go somewhere. And we always make a big deal of New Year’s with the kids.

So, blogging will be irregular. But I have a story for you guys for — probably — New Year’s. And other stuff. I will be back intermittently. So, check this channel now and then. Back full time and for sure around the 3rd.