Home renovations – Jam and Idleness

A visual representation of the state of our home renovations

In the form of a music video. The only differences are that Big Boi and Andre 3000 aren’t here, and the sun ain’t shining. Ms Jackson. Sigh.

Briefly surfacing

We have moved! I can’t recall what I’ve read in the meantime, except that it was all excellent (I think); I will consult Goodreads and return with a report. I am reading an excellent novel now–Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters–which possesses one of my favourite first lines so far encountered: “To begin with the old…

Alright fine

I submit, surrender, and beg forgiveness; at the rate things are going with getting ready to move and doing home renos, I have finally accepted that I am just never going to get caught up on my book posts unless I corral them. Well then, giddyup. Barry Lyndon, William Makepeace Thackeray. I wanted to love…

Subdued

Kind of a tough day over here. Hubby and I spent the day racing to finish getting everything prepared for the drywallers to come into the house tomorrow and begin working their clean-lined magic. He’s been working much more than I have; nonetheless, he seems as though he could continue, tortoise-like, to plod on until…

Drywall dust in my hair, sugar in my belly

Friends, the demolition of our house (prior to the reconstruction of it by a crew of talented contractors) is nearing completion. To which I say, thank feck. I look forward to the civilized and relatively clean project of painting the walls, when the walls which require painting have finally been constructed. The demo hasn’t been…

There’s history in these walls…a sometimes creepy, sometimes sweetly nostalgic history based firmly in the 1980s

Our demolition of the walls of our house continues on apace. Pretty much everything is stripped down to the studs and most of the waste (i.e., large pieces of wall and ceiling) have been sent to the big landfill in the…ground. Gawd, I’ve really been struck anew during this process about how horrifyingly wasteful and…

I’m well behind on my book reviewing…here’s a little bit of why

I am really terribly behind on my book reviews here–Whose Body?, The Documents in the Case, The Yacoubian Building, and Anathem have all been read and all require and deserve some attention from me…but they’ll have to remain neglected just a little bit longer. You see, my husband and I are engaged in some messy…