November 13, 2011

It is official, winter has come to Wisconsin.  We had our first snowfall of the season.  It wasn't a lot and it didn't stay around, but we had snow coming down for about 2 hours this week.  There just isn't any kidding ourselves that it isn't about to get really cold and white here.  Not as bad as in some other areas of the country, say Wyoming for instance, but enough to get out the really cold weather running gear.  Speaking of our cold weather gear, one problem we both are having is all of our winter sweaters and other winter clothes are still in boxes in the attic.  We didn't unpack them when we moved in since we knew we were doing the renovation work.  We had figured all of that work would be done prior to needing our winter woolies - Oops.

We both had a nice week at our respective jobs.  Jo pulled down here usual mix of meetings, talks, and minor crisis.  I focused on finishing off another room.  This week it was our guest bedroom although I also managed to start priming our bordello red hallway.  It is now a lovely shade of pink since the white primer wasn't quite enough to hide all the red.  Jo and I also worked on reorganizing what furniture is going back into each room.  The key driver was deciding to actually use our guest bedroom, as a guest bedroom.  This meant placing our double bed in that room (instead of Jo's study).  Once that happened a whole lot of other changes just seemed to make sense.  The end result of which was a lot of change, which meant moving a lot of our furniture - fortunately, a lot of that had to be moved anyway.  We now have our two back bedrooms completely painted and are starting to set them up.  It feels really good to start to have our house back to a livable state, even if it will be another couple of weeks before everything will be done.

For the weekend,  Friday night we made pizza at home and then snuggled together to watch some TV.  Saturday morning after our morning run on a beautiful, crisp fall (or winter if you read the first paragraph) morning we hit the gym and then went out to stimulate the economy.  We purchased a flat screen TV to replace our family room 36 inch cathode ray tube TV (which weighs in at about 300 lbs!).  It felt good to finally be buying technology from 2001.  We are not what you might call early adapters - I personally blame it on my cheapness, which is genetically gifted to me from my Dad (but that is a story for another venue).  Now all we need is some help from our renovation crew to get the massive old TV out of the room.  After watching the WI Badgers win over Minnesota, we went to our Chris and Angela's (nephew and fiance) apartment for dinner.  Very tasty dinner and dessert and it was such fun to hear about all the exciting things they have been up to recently.  Oh to be in my 20's again, although it is really nice to have the financial resources of my 50's.  This afternoon we have tickets to a hockey game, the Admiral's which is a farm team for the pros.  Other than that today, it will be some reading and a few miscellaneous chores.