Well, hello, strangers!

Hi.   I don’t blog anymore.   Ever.   For no reason other than DO YOU KNOW WHAT A PAIN IN THE ASS IT IS TO RAISE KIDS AND NOT HAVE INTERNET AT HOME?   I bet you don’t.

So, we bought a house.   Well, to be fair, I bought a house.   The kids really didn’t contribute a damn thing to the home purchase.   YET.   As soon as the law will allow (unless I can find a way earlier), they’ll be working to help pay this mortgage.   There’s no reason why three able-bodied people should live in a house that only one of those people is paying for.   Seriously.

Anyway. . . you might recall several years ago when I bought my last house.   Or, maybe not. I wasn’t blogging then, either.   *shrug*   The point is, I tore my last house limb from limb and redid her all nice and pretty.   Just in time to move to Austin and leave her behind.   It was a sad, sad time.   I wanted to load her up on a truck and bring her with me but people said that was unreasonable.   I kept her blueprints so I could re-build her. . . but then I never did go to that trouble.

The point is, I loved my last house more than I loved the guy who lived there with me.   And, I wish I could’ve brought the house to Texas with me instead of the guy.   And, I wish the people who bought my favorite house would take better care of it, particularly of the beautiful landscaping that we painstakingly designed and installed and nurtured so that they might have a fabulous lawn to enjoy, but whatever.

Anyway, the point is, I redid that kitchen half a dozen times in 2 years.   I tore out the bathroom entirely and made it suck WAY less.   I painted and built and installed and painted more and it made me so, so happy.   Then, I moved to Austin and started renting again.   Booooooo.

But, now I have a house again.   Yaaaaay!

Anway, the point is, I like to show off.   So, let’s make a sincere effort to use this blog as a house showing off place, mmkay?   It will be fun.

It will be way more fun if you give me ideas and help me paint.