Tight

Why does everything break at once? Our dishwasher is still leaving some white residue on just about everything. It's better than it was but still not great. The microwave has been on the fritz for a while now. It beeps at any given time for no apparent reason and will cut off in the middle of cooking something. The vacuum wouldn't stand up on it's own anymore so I bought a new one and it didn't work well at all so I took it back. I dropped the camera at J's basketball game and it came all apart. T managed to put it back together and we could use it with a thumb tack but the telephoto wouldn't work and it wouldn't review the pics. Plus, T had to replace the clutch in the Jeep.

I was watching a few cameras on ebay last night until I balanced the checkbook. Things are tight. And you know that's when everything needs repairs. I explained how tight things were to T and he fixed the old vacuum, with a spring. Then he took the camera apart and cleaned all the contacts and now everything works but the button for taking a pic is still missing so we are using a matchstick to press the button. Yes, we are taking pics using a match stick. How funny is that? We're going to look under the bleachers on Wed and see if we can find the button. T never ceases to amaze me and necessity really is the mother of all inventions.

So here are some pics that I took, either with the thumb tack or the match stick, so you can see some of the craziness going on around here. A friend brought J an early Christmas gift. He and T spent like 2 hours putting it together and here is J with the finished product.

Sanomae still loves the warm laundry but she has also spent a lot of time sitting on our bed and watching the leaves fall from the trees. It's quite funny.

Because R is collecting things for her own home and because she's been showered with gifts, we have two households in one right now. Things are tight in the checkbook and things are tight in the house too. Plus, J will be moving downstairs once R moves out and there is no way that the furniture from his room will make it down the circular steps (we put it up there before the steps went in) so we are having to get new stuff for him too. This is J's new desk...in our bathroom.

Here is a sampling of R's stuff, in our office/music room.

Boxes in the living room.

And in the dining area.

Oh, and here is the New Year's Eve fodder, I mean the precious little Christmas tree that J and I found. R likes it. A and T, not so much. It fits really well in the living room, don't you think?