It is starting to feel like Christmas over here - which is highly unusual since we are only six days away from Halloween. I just came from downstairs, where we have a little storage locker. I packed all of the ornaments we wanted this year into my ornament sorter. I tried to cram the cardboard boxes they were packaged in into my miscellaneous holiday box, but not everything that was in there before fit back in. I'm going to have to break down and get another box. Unfortunately, I really have no place to put it, not in my storage locker anyway. I can take out the car stuff (cleaners, waxes, etc.) which ironically, is in another bright red and green holiday box, and put that into the car trunk so long as I can devise a way to make it so it won't move around too much. Nothing else can really come out of there that I can think of. We just have too much damn stuff. The problem is whenever we see something we want to have for our house, the one we have yet to build, we have to buy it and hang on to it for later. I guess we think the style we like so much won't be marketed by the time we both get out of school and can afford a home. It is also hard to think that far in advance, especially with both of us in college and there's no a clear end to our educations in sight. Andrew has lately been talking about going for his PhD after he finishes up his Master's in Computer Engineering. By that point, I just hope to be out and earning an income. I guess that means I'm not ready to think about getting a Master's myself just yet.
The curtain rods that Andrew and I picked up yesterday won't fit the picture windows in our living room so they will have to be exchanged. Andrew is planning on getting them hung sometime today. He brought up the drill when we came up from downstairs and he set it to charging. It should be all ready whenever he is. One of the ornaments I bought needs to get exchanged, too. Much to my disappointment, some of the paint stuck to the packaging when I pulled it out to inspect it before packing it away with the others. So those are our plans for this afternoon: making some exchanges, hanging curtains, and of course doing more homework...for me at least. Speaking of which, I should get to it. I want to have another ten pages read by the time Andrew is all finished with washing the dishes and putting the receipts into MS Money. I'll read the remaining ten in transit to and from our destinations.
-- CrystalShiloh @ 11:29 AM