House progress and other stuff-n-things.

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Curtains are up and I will take pics this morning. I will be poking around to see about rugs... I am totally asking my mom for the oriental rugs in her attic. TOTALLY. I think she has two. Yummeh!

Kitchen needs to be painted, also the kid's room-- kitchen first, fridge comes Thursday. And washer and dryer. I totally want a kitchen remodel.

Stairs to be sanded after, repeat after, eye protection is bought. Staples at 14krpm are NOT good for the eyes.

Also, I noticed something with the shopping trips. Normally, I'm a "we don't need it put it back" kind of shopper. But lately, every time I go to the store, even for some eensy thing, I find all this stuff I need. I never needed any of this stuff before, but I can't figure out how to do anything I want to do without it, so I have to buy it. Weird!

The kid wants her room painted light pink, and some kind of curtains; she's rejected some stuff as being way too little-girlish, which I'm ok with her feeling that way, but we're going to have to come up with some way for her to get to choose among things I think are reasonable. No stepchild of mine is going to have something decorated in Boudoir of Vice™ or whatever. And she's still little enough to want room to play with her toys and all that. I'll be brainstorming those things for a while. She also needs a comfy chair that's reasonably sized for her to sit in, so she doesn't have to always sit on her bed to play Nintendo or something.

I never really got the point of not having at least one chair and preferably two in your bedroom; after all, it's about the only area for a private conversation if you aren't the head of the household. And sometimes people want to have private conversations, but maybe they don't feel comfortable on the bed with someone! I know it was tough for me when I lived in the dorms and dated a few guys, and we wanted to have a conversation without random people in the hallway listening (which left out the lounge) but I wasn't at all ready to jump into bed with the guy, and jumping on the bed in front of him seemed kind of weirdly taunting because of that.

Today's project: go work on the apartment and see how much more of my stuff I can move out, whee!

Engineer Cat got out.

ETA: HE'S FOUND AND OKAY. He did not get out of the house. He took a RIDE OF TERROR in the laundry chute, which is a 10 foot drop. Yes, the same chute where we found Chisa this morning and taped up the top opening so no more kitties would take a tumble. He had fallen down it last night and somehow we didn't see him at the back of the bin or something? anyways he spent all day there. He's ok, the laundry chute is now secure so no more kitties will go down it.

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Engineer Cat got out early this morning, we think, and we can't find him anywhere.

He's very skittish and will only come to us, and that only rarely. He's been very nervous about the new place anyways (foaming at the mouth when we brought him over here, for instance).

I'm sad and worried, but of our three cats he's the most able to survive in the Great Outdoors for a day or two. I don't know when (or if) we'll get him back, but I'll try my hardest to have hope.

I miss the little guy.