Hooray!!!

I did it!  I'm officially finished with the hardest semester ever!  AND I don't even think I failed either of my classes.  (though I'm also sure they will be the lowest grades I've ever gotten in an art related course...by a lot....)  I have never been this sick in my entire life, and it never let up the whole semester.

To think I used to think school was hard back when I was healthy!  Ha!

Just had to share my exciting news- we'll be celebrating tonight!  And by celebrating I mean going to bed at 7:30.  (for real, Doug just called and asked what I wanted to do and that's what we planned.)

I swear I'm a 29 year old stuck in a 79 year old body... :)

Doug's New Hobby

Trivia Question:  What's wrong with this picture?

There has been a lot going on around our house the past few weeks.  But first things first.  There is something seriously wrong with our laundry room- can you figure out what it is?

The laundry room has always been a bit of a mystery to us.  We live in 1,000 square feet, so it seems strange to have 100 of them devoted only to doing laundry.  Why couldn't they just give us a laundry closet and add the rest of the space to actual living area?!  

Well, after almost 5 years of living in our home, we've finally put this weird bit of space to work.  Since it's an unfinished room filled with 2 water heaters, 2 furnaces (oh the joys of owning a duplex) and a washer/dryer, there was really no hope in ever making it cute.  So we stuck with pure function.  I have to admit, it makes life a lot easier to have a spot that's just supposed to be ugly.  :)

A stacked washer/dryer gave space for Doug to create himself a little office down there.  First came a desk for his computer.  Then a POTS friendly exercise bike so I could start doing my physical therapy from home.  Then we filled the shelves with all our office supplies (a growing collection, with Doug doing Clearcore book keeping and Sweetbriar Sisters order fulfillment down there- all after his full time job of course).  

Then it started getting fun.

Doug has this new found talent.   Building computers into strange, but useful, places. So with all this useful stuff in one room, his brain started churning.  One day I went down there and he'd roped an old laptop onto the bike.  Strange, but ok.  I did like getting stuff done while I did my workout, so no complaining here.  (staying current on emails feels like such a time killer every day!) But it was an old laptop, and not nearly as fast as, say, a faster computer could be.  So as time went on, parts were reorganized and eventually the old laptop was replaced by our entire desktop.  I like to tease Doug about how much he dreams about new computers- it seems he's never quite satisfied.  

So what's the problem now?  Well, there's no monitor hanging from the ceiling yet!  I mean, the bike's got to have two monitors (who can get anything done on just one?!)  and the ceiling is really our only access point.  So, in all seriousness, our next plan for the laundry room is to hang one of our computer monitors from the ceiling right above the bike.  

And to be honest, I'm really excited.