my daughter just arrived at the house from the airport, where she just returned from her week away in Mexico…

she walked into the house to discover a pair of men’s shoes at the front door, and heard his voice and mine upstairs, coming from the bedroom…

it didn’t take her more than a few seconds to recognize the shoes as those of my contractor (one of her friends), but for those precious seconds it was too funny…

she and her friend were eager to get home to see their families so they didn’t stay for more than a few moments… they had come by to pick up my car, as while she was away, her car had an oopsie and can’t get in to Autopac until the end of February… there have been so many accidents over the past month due to the bad weather that getting cars in for estimates is taking ages… I’m wondering how long it might take to get it fixed too…

usually lending them the car is not a problem at all, but my travelling buddy is heading off to Hawaii in a week and the other two people who might give me a ride are also going on vacation around the same time…

not quite sure how it will all work out… those big girl pants again…

my contractor was here to discuss our next project – repairing some cracks and painting the stairwell and the inside of my closet…

now I have to move about 40 feet of books so he can get the work done… this might be just the time to divest some of them, although I always find letting books go very difficult… I was hoping the kids could help me this weekend but just discovered they are going to be away, yikes… will have to think about how I might get this job done…

was telling my guy how everyone loves my new purple wall… he had been laughing because we had just talked about how the stairwell wall and closet will all be painted white and he said something about all he would ever need here was white and purple paint… and, of course, he’s right…

purple wall with new picture hanging…