Day 46

I'm trying really hard to embrace winter and get into the holiday season.   I had someone tell me recently to embrace winter and maybe doing that it would help get me through the long, cold winters.   I'm trying, I'm trying really hard to do that.........being sick is not part of the overall plan of embracing winter though.   It doesn't do a body any good to stand in  freezing temperatures with a wind chill of 2 degrees for 5 hours  cheering on a soccer cup final in Kansas City when you are sick and then losing on top of it.  Oh, well.  It was worth it, sick or not to watch the boys in claret play.

By the time the final click of my humans heels and the words "there is no place like home" were muttered, hibernation was sounding pretty good.  Not happening though.......construction  is alive and well.........to look at the mess, you'd think nothing was happening.  But plenty has.

There's no place like home.
Salt Lake City, Utah

It still looks the same.  A mess is a mess.  Plastic wrapped furniture, paint buckets, caulking containers....it's all still in place.  I've learned and my human is learning the word "patience'.....it is one of her virtues, but there comes a time when you want to say "enough already" and let it be done.  I wish I could just wiggle my nose and have it be done.  I'm trying to look at the end result, but frankly, pulling my hair out, is not part of the pretty picture..............

What's happening now is painting of the living room and dining room walls, the china cabinet and the fireplace.  A lot of prep work has gone into just being able to pick up a paint brush and slap some paint on the walls.  I'm on day 46 of a 30 day remodeling job...............hahahahahahahahaha..........

Pictures of the finished rooms will come later........it will be January 2014 before it's all done.  In the meantime, I'm headed to my partially deconstructed kitchen.  I'm whipping out the Kitchenaid and summing the help of my trusty Elf who seems to think that he's on vacay too along with the ornament fairy, to help me whip up some Christmas treats.  I have no tree up yet, so maybe the smell of something good baking in the oven will help revive a holiday spirit in my human that seems to be lost right now.

I made my human search through pictures of last years Christmas to help remind her that Christmas away from home was no cup of tea either.  She has to look at it this way, last year was fun, she was with her family, but waking up in a hotel room on Christmas morning is just not the same as waking up at home.  This year, the family will be here, hopefully the plastic is off the furniture at least in the living room, and a small, yet decorated Christmas tree will be set up on a table.  As long as there is family to celebrate this precious holiday with, what more could she ask for?  Construction can wait.  Family, friends, good food, and being alive to enjoy another holiday is all she wants.........

Reflections....Venetian Hotel
Las Vegas, NV

Atrium at the Belagio Hotel
A winter fantasy.

Merry Christmas my friends.  Enjoy what you have..........living in this mess is nothing compared to what some peoples living conditions are.  I may moan and groan, bitch and complain, but in all reality, I   am grateful for the small things life gives me............

Before and after pics are coming soon...........I've developed cabin fever and I'm hoping to get out soon and snap some pictures..............

Sugarhouse park -

The clouds parted, sun came out, and the snow
glistened........this was an 18 inch snowfall

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