I have been up to my ears in gym, medieval Latin and medieval law. Medieval Latin ended on Monday with a prepared text exam. I studied for about 24 hours retranslating every text we had done in the second half of the term. The previous Thursday it was a paper for medieval law. All that while still dealing with the fallout of asking for a new mattress.
Yep, a new mattress which meant the 23 year old bed needed replacing, which meant all new bedroom furniture, heck, then you might as well paint, but I really like wallpaper, so let's do that, and hey we should finally do the hardwood floor that we had intended to do when 13 years ago we put in that cheap laminate. Well then all the furniture had to go downstairs and well the girl's beds which included their desks were pretty done too and since my youngest decided that the decor needed up dating, well paint and wallpaper followed that too. Fortunately, this part of the interior decorating cascade worked out well as the girls finally sent boxes of stuffed animals to goodwill. Finally.
We had a few problems with the floors which meant a two day job turned into 1 month of almost no furniture upstairs. All this while doing 20 hours or so of translating per week. ACK!
We're still not all done. The upstairs closet is still getting fixed up and the girl's room needs a few more things, but pretty close now.
Needless to say, there has been no crafting, no Christmas cards, very little knitting or weaving and not a scrapbook page to speak of. And no blog posts till this one. I have an exam in two weeks which should be O.K. Next term will be way more sane. One course, no Latin. See you on the other side.
