I never bargained for it but...

I lost one pillow in the move(god knows how THAT happened?) but I gained a beautiful sunset view from my large living room window every evening. 

When we viewed the house, we never imagined we would have gotten this beautiful screensaver worthy view while eating dinner.  It is absolutely gorgeous and even when there is a snow storm outside, I love seeing the flurry of snowflakes right out that same window while I sip my latte, curled up on my couch with my toes tucked in.

The first week of moving was simply exhausting.  Apart from the mad cleaning and getting rid of any animal's hairy existence from every molding and window gap(I never imagined I would be using a toothpick and even chopsticks to be cleaning out cat's hairs and dirt!), Theoden got gastro, high fever, vomiting, diarrhea over a couple of days, which, thankfully, he recovered pretty quickly from my probiotics(and lots of natural yogurt) treatment. 

The weekend shot by us without any rest, up to the point where I also caught the gastro virus from Theoden(vomit, vomit, vomit) and Emmanuel got completely exhausted from the painting that he made 2 crucial mistakes.  He mistook the green paint for blue paint, and THEN, he repainted the wall that he had just finished painting with another color.  Well, that is a sign of fatigue and he gave up after that last brushstroke.  We were absolutely knackered.

It's funny how we much work we are doing to make the house liveable and nice, small little changes here and there that slowly amounts to pretty big ideas in our heads.   And the thing is, we bought this house so readily cos' it was newly renovated 1-2years ago, most of the crucial things were changed out, like new heating system, lighting, flooring, kitchen remodeled, etc.  And YET, we found more and more things to improve on each day.  I think we have to stop watching HGTV.  It plants in our heads way too many ideas.
 
Then again, the blame can't entirely be HGTV's. We're homeowners now.  And it is natural to wanna be house proud.  =)  N'est pas?

This is my last week of french classes and after that, I may wanna pick up on my painting and crafts skills that I left off in high school.  Deco ideas have been infiltrating my mind each night as I find it difficult to sleep despite my exhaustion.  Soon, my tiny head will explode with all these ideas that keep on accumulating. 

I better go buy some paint and brushes soon.  And maybe a sewing machine along the way.  Ooh, and not forgetting that power gun stapler!