Office organized...mostly

I'm getting things accomplished around the house. It's still slow-going, but I try to do a bit each evening and I've not been as tired lately. Seems like I get a burst of energy about 9 pm.

The office now has bookshelves, roman shades on the windows and an assembled CD storage unit. I think most of our CD's are still in Kansas. I also found an attractive bulletin board. The club chair is in there currently, but it's a small room and the chair's uphostelry was mostly destroyed by the dogs, so I don't know if it will stay in there. There is a slipcover over it and it looks okay, except for the general massiveness of it. This room is also where the piano is and will be the music practice room, so I'd like some room to move.

The dining chairs were a mess when I unpacked the box, so I still don't have chairs. Since we are hosting DH's parents for Thanksgiving, chairs were needed. So we'll make do with folding chairs. I'd bought slipcovers a long time ago for the folding chairs, so this is an okay solution until I can figure out the next move.

There are still a few things over at the apartment, but I hope to get the last moved this weekend. Especially my coffee. I'll finish up with the cleaning next weekend.

And that's life. More of the same.

The sandbox

Hopefully I'm not breaking some federal law sharing these with you, but the pictures are from the base where DH will be in Iraq. I guess they hid all the camel spiders when they took these. (Just kidding!) It looks pretty nice.

Don't forget Maddie

Can't you see I'm resting here?

Bat ears

Getting pumped

Last week on my way out of town for knitting in the QC, I stopped at a gas station for a fill up. As I was getting out of the car, the station attendant came over and started pumping my gas for me. We still have a station here in town that provides that service for the same price as the DIY stations. And he cleaned my windshield too while chatting pleasantly with me.

Customer service. Doing that little extra to make a good experience. There is something to be learned in this.

Miss Saigon (and gratuitous dog photos)

I took the pictures of the dogs with the computer webcam. Not too bad quality. Charley wouldn't sit still long enough to get a good picture. He was very curious about why I was putting the computer so close to him.

Last night I drove down to Macomb to see the University Theater's production of Miss Saigon. WIU has always had a very good theater department and usually puts on quality productions. This was no exception. There were excellent vocalists in the lead roles. The little boy who played Tam caused some laughter, he was very cute.

On the home front, I've got the kitchen organized. Today might be a good day for cooking some soup. It's supposed to be rainy and cool. I'm glad to have the dining table cleared off and I hope to pick up the dining chairs today. So maybe by tonight I can eat dinner like a normal person at a table. I'm still a bit frustrated with my slow pace of unpacking and organizing. Really, I guess I've got a good amount done considering the past couple of months have been busy. Work is starting to slow down a bit now as we're getting closer to the end of the semester.