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(well, almost four months…)

We’re pretty much moved into the house.  There are a few things still in the Garage, but since there’s enough room in there for my car, I figure we’re doing pretty well.  Still trying to figure out where all the small things are going to go…like what pictures to put on the wall and all that stuff.  There’s also the fact that while the amount of stuff we had seemed to crowd the old house, it’s just the right amount for the new house — though we could use more bookshelves.  This is a no-brainer; we’re bibliophiles.  We’re always going to need more bookshelves!

(Though I maintain that we definitely need more shelving if we’re going to get all our books out of boxes.  Seriously.  We may need to make a sojurn to IKEA soonish.  I’m getting tired of boxes. They tend to pile up.  I’m afraid we might have to eventually dig out the cat.)

I wanted to be able to informally compete with the Yarn Harlot for the Furnace Wars this year, seeing as we have a much more modern home that doesn’t have all the leaks and creaks of a 1970’s/80’s Calgary “Handyman’s Special”.  Unfortunately, the weather around here decided to go bipolar.  We had a huge heat wave a couple of weeks ago that had us thinking that we’d be saving enough money on our gas bill that we’d be able to splurge on Yule (like that would ever happen, har!).  Not so lucky.  We went into a deep freeze.  Snow.  There’s actually snow on the ground.  I had to shovel the driveway yesterday.  Sure, it wasn’t much, but it was still enough to shovel.  We turned the heat on last week.  It was either that or freeze.  Snuggling the cat just didn’t provide much in the way of warmth-sharing (and she was a little pissy with us due to being recently spayed).