Saturday morning meandering

I woke up well before 8am today. Wide awake, but tired.

It's so freakin' early that the dog didn't even expect to be fed. He just came out with me, hopped up on the couch, flopped on his back, and proceeded to snore.

I made an amazingly tasty spicy chicken pizza last night. Pineapple-chipotle bbq sauce, sautéed red onions (caramelized would've been better, but it was late), tequila-garlic chicken, roasted red pepper, fresh mozzarella. I added feta to one slice, just for kicks. I used a WF GF Bakery crust, too, so I've got leftovers that will come out for breakfast at some point this morning. Boy was suitably impressed. He keeps me around because I feed him well, or so he tells me when I'm sacked out on the couch, surrounded by the chaotic clutter that I attract.

The $&#@* ants are back in the kitchen. It's a yearly thing. They weren't too bad last year, but that's because I (as boy put it) sprinkled enough cinnamon to run a CinnaBon all over the window frame and sill. I suggested that we relocate some of the icky spiders from other windows to that window. He might just try that. We don't open most of the windows (spiders + pollen), so it's a feasible solution.

Someone told me the city market starts up today, but I thought that it didn't start til April. I don't really wanna go down there just to find out. I'd rather stay here and work on the second room.

We call it "the second room" because it's not going to be a bedroom yet, nor will it really be a nursery. It will have the baby's furniture and the glider/rocker, and we will store diapers and clothing in there. But it will also still function to some extent as an office/sewing room. We plan to co-sleep for awhile and will sidecar the crib to our bed. The second room won't be turned into the urchin's room for at least another year or two. In that time, I might be able to figure out what to do with our limited space. ;)

March goes out like an empty bank account . . .

We gave Jericho a smoked beef knuckle to keep him busy while we finished Color.1/Coat.2 in the second room. He was too worried about us and kept trying to sneak into the room. As soon as we finished, he settled down and attacked the bone with vigor. The smell of it is sickening me, so I'm outside, trying to fight against the glare.

We need to buy more tape today, along with a couple liners for the pan. As soon as Color.2 and Color.3 arrive, we can tape the edges and get to it.

We could go ahead and paint the windows, I suppose, since we have the paint for the trim. I'll give Color.1 a chance to dry, first.

We had the Sears repairman out this week for the washer. It's the timing module, just as Dad and I surmised. He told us we had three options:
replace it (about 300 bucks total)
buy a new washer (this one cost over 400 new)
keep doing what we're doing (manually resetting it to rinse/spin)

Since we're going to be washing lots of cloth diapers, I told him to fix it. $291 is still cheaper than a new washer and this one is only five years old. The part should be guaranteed for a time. The part alone costs around $193. Oooof.

Gah. It's been an expensive month (car repairs, paint stuff, washer). And April will be even more expensive, between the cabinets/counter and baby. At least the hospital will take a payment plan. And I'm really thankful that we're at a point in our life where we can handle these bills. I mean, it's not always easy or fun and we sometimes skip on entertainment or buying furniture, etc, but we don't starve. We're very fortunate.

It's pretty outside. Cool, light breeze, cherry blossoms snowing down around me. The camellia and quince in the backyard are both blooming . . . one of the front azaleas is in bloom. I've got arrowhead ginger coming up down the yard . . . and the peonies are poking through, along with the tiger lilies. It'll be a pretty summer.

If anyone local needs shipping/moving boxes, I have three of varying sizes + some packing peanuts.