somewhere to hang out...

We bought a vacuum today. Very exciting, I know. But I think it saved my lovely area rug that Kassie had taken to bad-mouthing, sure it would never look good again.

Our family room is presentable. It is by no means done, but we like it well enough for now.

We took the door to the room off. We haven't carried it downstairs yet. That would be too much work.


Ah, a view of the windows. And the things required to hold the windows up. Today, it's a fan and a planter. Two days ago, I used some kind of paint roller extension.


Here's a pretty decent look at that area rug I can't seem to shut up about. And we're going to be on the lookout for a shorter, much more interesting coffee table. One of my dreams that I'm going to go ahead and broadcast to the internets is that, since I'm in a house and not an apartment anymore, some day those speakers will be rear speakers.


This is where the chimney runs through the room. I'm not sure why there had to be a gap big enough to squeeze Oprah into, but there it is. Grease her up! We don't like that gap.


Look! The closet door is open! Oh. It's always open. That's something we'll need to fix. The stool is a temporary lamp-holder.


So there it is.

I saw another mouse last night, by the way. I yelled at it, but it didn't move. It just sat there- trying to blend in, I guess. I kicked a stool at it and it moved. I think I might try to find the pellets for my piece, but don't tell Kassie...