but I thought I should make the effort since Honey got me over here to see Zillah's news.

I'm procrastinating on taking down the dratted decorations. It always takes me all day, not because I have so many, but because I stop and procrastinate for hours at a time!! The tree's bare but not packed away. Everything's cleared from most rooms and the living room looks like an explosion in a tinsel factory. The wreath's still up on the front door, but since it'll be dark in less than an hour, my bet is that it will be gone soon!

I've been doing some major reworks for my spare bedroom (ex-office). On Boxing Day I gave up waiting for my plumber to get his act together, knock down my wall and fix my shower room, and started setting up the sofa bed that's been there since September. Had no choice really because we had a massive keyboard sitting in its box in my living room and my parents were coming to us on the 27th. Since then I've been to IKEA and bought the kids a desk each and a chest of drawers for the spare bedroom. The desks got built on New Year's Eve - I lead such an exciting life! - and the drawers on New Year's Day. The spare room is taking shape but I'll need a fold-up stand to really make use of the keyboard, and I need to sort the bottom of my wardrobe to get some large craft and stationery boxes out of the tiny space in the spare room. I've even managed to create space on my bookshelves so that I have a lot less piles of books hanging around without homes now - believe me that's a major triumph!

I think I've done more between Christmas Day and now than I've done the rest of the year in terms of making my home a bit more livable!! I don't really think it heralds any huge changes in my life since last year, but I'm not waiting on other people for now. Somehow I still have to get three bedrooms carpeted and my ensuite shower completely changed, even with all the additional furniture. At least I've got rid of a lot of stuff though. Continuous improvement I guess.

hi to everyone else... I doubt I'll be here very frequently, but I do think of you.

Kerri.

Kerri.