Week ending 12/2/11

Over the weekend, we did another garage session. C would rather spend all day but my style is to break it into chunks so it doesn't feel like prison labor or ruin an entire day. It also takes way longer than it seems like it will - an hour of work on the garage means a 2.5 hour work session in total. In the first hour, we make a pile for trash and donate and sometimes things to be put elsewhere. It then takes about an hour and a half to put things in the trash and in the car, drop off the donation and clean up. So to me, it makes sense to stop at an hour and begin the second half.

On Saturday, La-Z-Boy called with our delivery date for the love seat - it was coming on Wednesday. That's a perfect day because I had nothing scheduled.

We also spent about 2 hours discussing our "big plans" for the house. I know we've done a lot already, but we think we are going to make big changes in the future. For one, our garage is in a bad spot and it's very small (16 x 18 compared with at least 20 x 20 for a two-car garage). We may knock it down and rebuild a bigger garage with some sort of living space or guest quarters above it. We also think we might add some space on to the house for better resale. Right now, because of the small size and only having one bath, our resale value much lower than it could be in this neighborhood.

It feels overwhelming, but we don't know when any of this will happen anyway so we'll see.

On Wednesday, the new love seat came and we're quite happy with it. Of course, now the plastic shelf and desk credenza look like crap!