since the water heater leaked all over the basement, there has been lots of activity… while I was gone, the company came in and removed the carpet and underlay, took out two feet of drywall, removed all the furniture, redid the drywall, laid new underlay and carpet and repainted the wall… looks pretty good, especially without all the stuff that was jamming up the place, lol…

I think they just have to bring everything back in and then it will be done… this will give me the energy to tidy it up down there… the basement had been George’s domain for a number of years, and he would watch tv down there while I watched upstairs, so it has been a bit difficult to go down and sort everything out, but I will put on those big girl pants once again and get it reorganized nicely so we can play Wii and watch movies when the kids are here…

maybe I will look further into having the fireplace changed to gas or electricity so that I can use it, as it is fairly difficult to start a fire… will have to see…

he and I had talked about putting in new carpet down there…