In the details

I'm officially unemployed. And how is it September? How has this happened??

Eep!

My last day of work at the bookstore was yesterday, and a bittersweet day it was. Most of the staff was there, so I had to say goodbye to everyone all at once. Of course, it's not like I'll be gone forever--I already have the airline booked to bring me back to Wisconsin after the New Year, but still... it's goodbye to 4.5 years of that job and those people, where I invested a lot of myself and learned a lot as well. It's a big step.

In the meantime, since I have five days before I depart, and no job, I'm repainting the bedroom I was using up until a couple of days ago. I've moved just about everything out, so it's now in another bedroom or piled in the living room. My apartment is a total mess. But having this bedroom to redo helps to get my mind off of the big change ahead. As much as I love to think about it, and am very excited, I think sometimes I have a tendency to become what they call in the parenting world, "overstimulated." Like a kid at a birthday party who gets so excited she gets sick. Ahem. Not that that ever happened to me...

;)

So I'm in the preparation stage of painting the bedroom. The house is old, almost 130 years. The part of the house where this bedroom is was a more recent addition, but by recent, we're still talking several decades and many, many layers of paint on these walls. What I've always loved about it is the built-in dresser with cabinet on top, and some of the old metal hardware. Not to mention hardwood floors,  but they too are getting old and a little beaten up.



I finally wrote out a list (crammed onto one side of an index card) of all of the things I would like to do, or must do before I leave. I cannot believe it's already coming up this Friday! Scotland!




Days to Edinburgh move-in: 6