I just want to settle down
I cannot wait for Kathy's house to sell. My life has been derailed for almost a year by various things, and I'm eager to get it back.
It all started with an excruciatingly painful frozen shoulder that made daily life an unnecessary challenge and forced me to stop seeing clients for a couple of months. (When you normally spend an entire client session typing up notes while you and your client converse, you need both arms.) The frozen shoulder was one of those sobering experiences where you realize that you are more vulnerable than you imagined. Maybe you've been through something like that…you think you are the little engine that could and then your body suddenly says you can't and moreover, it won't. What the heck?
Before that was even over, we decided to make the big move and buy a house together…which meant lots of research, time viewing houses, inspections and finally, contract negotiations. Of course, we chose a fixer upper, so then there was the crash course on home renovations and my new role as designer and general contractor. A month or so later, we did the fastest packing and moving jobs ever, only to move most our things into the garage and an onsite POD in our driveway. A couple more months were spending moving our boxes from one spot to the other while more work continued on the house. We lived on bare plywood floors for weeks. I think we unpacked a full three months after we took ownership.
With the list of things to be done on the house still a mile long (but a bit less urgent) I was glad to be able to start renovating Kathy's house for sale last month. Fixing up our own home triggered my makeover bug something fierce. I find I just love this admittedly exhausting but thoroughly fascinating process of transformation.
Nonetheless, I'm eager for the house to be sold so that I can find out what normal is again. You know, running my business, working on art projects, writing the books I want to write. It's been so long that I've almost forgotten how things can be a bit more mellow. Oh, wait, those of you who know my projects and plans know there is never any "mellow" for me. But, at least, there is "self-directed," and that's what I look forward to!
To the future!
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