I'm beginning to wonder if my life will ever be regular, predictable, stable again. Ever since June, it's felt like someone took my life and everything in it, tossed it up into the air, and just let each component land wherever it happened to land. Since then, I've been scurrying about trying to put it all back together. Sometimes the configuration works and sometimes it doesn't. When the configuration hasn't worked, I've had to start over to try to figure out just how it all fits together. I think I thought that once we moved into our house, everything would magically find it's way into place, and I would finally be able to breathe a sigh of relief. I truly don't mean this in a pessimistic way, but the older I get, the more I realize that life will always sort of be in a state of flux. Unexpected challenges pop up constantly, and sometimes the biggest challenge is to not let life's unpredictability get to you. Especially since that unpredictability can be what makes life so wonderful.
We've been in our house for a week now, and it's really starting to feel like home. It's been challenging to start a new job and make a new home all at the same time, because everything seems so new and a bit disconcerting. But everyday things start to feel a little more "normal". Of course, the most fun part for me is the decorating. Reprodepot was having a sale last week, so I used that as an opportunity to order fabric for curtains for the living room, bedroom and studio. There are so many things I want to do, and we'll be spending this winter gradually putting it all together. I'm really looking forward to decorating for Christmas, and it's difficult to exercise restraint when the stores are already filled with holiday decorations.
The rain just keeps falling here, and our basement is flooding. Obviously, we are not pleased about this, and we've been hit with our first challenge as homeowners just one short week after moving in. Eric was up late last night moving things around and sweeping the water. My dear kitty, Vedo, is being tormented by fleas. All of our kitties are indoor cats, and the only thing I can think of is that there were fleas here when we moved in. I'm sure the other cats have them too, but Vedo has the misfortune of being highly allergic to them. It just breaks my heart to see him so uncomfortable. We're getting some medication for him today, so I hope he'll have some relief very soon. What nasty little buggers those fleas are!
Okay, I think it's time to end the world's most boring post. No photos today because Eric has the camera. No new creations because everything is in boxes and my sewing machine is still out at the lake. I hope to get the studio set up this week because I know that as soon as I get my fabric, I'm going to want to get busy on the curtains.
It's coming together slowly. very slowly...
