getting out of hand

for pete's sake. this morning, i left for work early so that i could make a quick stop at the store and get groceries for the next two days (no time for my usual "big shop"... maybe this weekend). then, i raced to work and went through a busy morning. i had exactly one hour before a meeting, so i hurried home for lunch... where i proceeded to unwrap my wrap skirt and start cleaning the bathroom (in my slip, tights, slippers & blouse!!!). yes, this is how i spend my "free time" from work... running to and from stores, cleaning when i have a minute, etc. and yet, our fridge is always empty and our house is always a mess. it doesn't make sense!!!
i wonder how ed spends his lunch hour... ?

my word, i just get off-track and never seem to update this anymore! things are going well, i think. we're making good progress on the house (the theme of our Christmas party invite was "we have walls and want to celebrate, fa la la la la la la la la!"). our master bathroom is coming along nicely - we may even get our closets set back up soon... maybe. (right now, poor ed has to deal with his dress clothes crammed in with mine or hanging in random areas of the house.) the game room needs to be our next focus, as we are currently living with all of the furniture and everything else in that room (i.e. everything for the boys, essentially... toys, tv, games, etc) is stacked floor to ceiling in the middle of the room. these days, it's become the pit where things go and disappear. i can't imagine what we'll uncover when we get that room back in order. and i just can't wait until we get it done... it will mean that the boys have their space back and we can live a little more "normally". AND they can get back to having friends over again! it's bad enough that ed & i have dropped off the face of the earth socially and didn't have friends over while we've been working so hard on the house, but we both feel it's worse for the boys. so, that's the focus now. well, that and the heating issues we have in our 110 year old house that started with no insulation and we still have a basement that may as well be wide open!!
geez, and i wonder why i'm battling constant headaches!
that's about it really. i'll write about our latest trip to mn soon. and pictures... i'm always promising pictures and never coming through on that. bugger.