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still here!
Hello, good morning, happy Tuesday!
It’s been forever since I posted but I’m still here, still reading, occasionally commenting. It’s just been an exhausting, disconcerting summer, though more in the now-what-do-I-do-? way, not that everything got worse.
So, very quickly, I decided not to sell the house but to do some remodeling so I’ve been staying with friends while all the furniture, closets, and bits and pieces from 4 bedrooms are piled into the living spaces of my house. I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time on Pinterest and Instagram, figuring out how to use what I have in a different configuration so the house feels different but still like me.
Work has been fine (the team/people are amazing but the acquisition remains a mess), though it’s really only been in the last few weeks that I feel like my concentration is back to what I’m used to be able to bring to the table.
Kids are doing as well as can be expected, though of course I still worry.
As long-time readers know, we’ve spent a week at the beach with several other families for decades now, and last year, we decided to shift the week to the fall, because most everyone was done with school and it’s tremendously less expensive to rent in September so we’re here now. Aside from it apparently being the year of stupid accidents (L had her feet go out from under her in the pool, M picked up a bin of towels & tweaked her back, I tripped while carrying a giant tray of taco fixings), it’s been lovely and there are currently pink lemonade and strawberry-lime margaritas in the slushy machine for Tequila Tuesday, so I’ll leave you on that note and head down to the sand to read and let the salt water clean out the scraped knees I acquired in my dramatic face-plant.)
Let’s see if I can manage to post a little more frequently, but for now, ciao, bellezze!
It’s been forever since I posted but I’m still here, still reading, occasionally commenting. It’s just been an exhausting, disconcerting summer, though more in the now-what-do-I-do-? way, not that everything got worse.
So, very quickly, I decided not to sell the house but to do some remodeling so I’ve been staying with friends while all the furniture, closets, and bits and pieces from 4 bedrooms are piled into the living spaces of my house. I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time on Pinterest and Instagram, figuring out how to use what I have in a different configuration so the house feels different but still like me.
Work has been fine (the team/people are amazing but the acquisition remains a mess), though it’s really only been in the last few weeks that I feel like my concentration is back to what I’m used to be able to bring to the table.
Kids are doing as well as can be expected, though of course I still worry.
As long-time readers know, we’ve spent a week at the beach with several other families for decades now, and last year, we decided to shift the week to the fall, because most everyone was done with school and it’s tremendously less expensive to rent in September so we’re here now. Aside from it apparently being the year of stupid accidents (L had her feet go out from under her in the pool, M picked up a bin of towels & tweaked her back, I tripped while carrying a giant tray of taco fixings), it’s been lovely and there are currently pink lemonade and strawberry-lime margaritas in the slushy machine for Tequila Tuesday, so I’ll leave you on that note and head down to the sand to read and let the salt water clean out the scraped knees I acquired in my dramatic face-plant.)
Let’s see if I can manage to post a little more frequently, but for now, ciao, bellezze!