Stuffity stuff stuff

Survived another rainy weekend in the rental house. When am I going to start calling it home? I need to get some of that poster tack stuff so I can start hanging things on my craft room wall in the hopes of making it feel like mine. As for the rest of the house, I hate to admit it, it's just too damned CLEAN! The only clutter is on the dining room table and it really isn't clutter. I;m working on a puzzle, I drop my purse there and there is a stack of carryout menus that we haven't thought of a better place to stash them.

This house is bare. The kitchen could hold a narrow table but doesn't. We have counters and appliances including a microwave but that's it. I have two pot and the frying pan from hell... I swear that even water would stick to that pan. Silverware of course and cooking utensils and when I stuck two butterfly magnets on the silvery fridge door, I stood staring at them as if I were in a museum someplace and they were Monets.

The dining room has a long table (the leaf is in) and started with six chairs. One went downstairs into Josh's room, one upstairs to the craft room. That's it. Table, chairs, my purse and a pile of menus. That's it. One piece of art on the wall, no curtains. Oh there's an area rug. Beige and a dog chew bone.

The living room is a sofa and a love seat, two end table with lamps (one doesn't work) a coffee table and the tv. Small screen on a low cabinet. No curtains, beige rug. I have managed to collect 3 plants and saved from the wreckage this wierd beaded figure made from garden mesh, with wire arms, polymer clay head and woven with a boatload of beads. It's small but it's mine.
Oh and one piece of art on the wall. Upstairs the bathroom is a bathroom. I've added a sea shell I saved from the wreckage and this cute mini toilet eraser set from Michaels. And on the back of the toilet another Michael's find a glass flower bowl/candle holder with strawberry scented crystals in it. There is a shower curtain... white and black towel and white towels and a rug on the floor. That's it.

Small bedroom has a twin sized bed in it a chest one night table and a beige rug.

Big bedroom a queensized bed one nighttable. I had to trade in my dresser for Josh to get a recliner in the basement. Luckily there are built in drawers in the large closets. No curtains in either bed room but there are plastic shades that do nothing to keep the sun out.

Small bedroom is painted beige, big bedroom, terracotta and the craft room a sort of orange. The craft room holds a tv on the other nightstand from the big bedroom a narrow table I got at a thrift store and the dining room chair. it has a closet with a sloped floor that makes it impossible to store things in so I have piles lining the wall, and two book cases of wire that I retrieved from the wreckage. The craft room has a particular smokey funk to it.

The basement aka Josh's room has a queen sized bed, a beige rug, beige recliner, a ches, tv and two night stands. Again no curtains.

Thee are polymer clay people who mostly survived the fire sitting on the splash board of the kitchen sink and two knick knacks that I saved. I'm still unpacking stuff I saved and stashed int he yard at home. We are bringing that over slowly one day at a time so I don't know what other knick knacks I'll find. Hopefully something bright and cheery. I wanted some begonias and or geraniums for the window sills as well but they aren't in the stores yet so I'll have to wait.

I really don't want to buy curtains for this house when I'll have to buy curtains for home. Insurance will not be giving us any more money until we right up the lists of things lost. Try it sometimes. Pick a room and list every little thing in it from memory. You'll be surprised at how hard it is.

As for clothes I have a pair of shorts and 3 shirts for summer and only a little more for the cooler days. I tried hitting thrift stoeres but some of their stuff is more expensive than Walmart. I miss Goodwill with their clothes by the pound areas where I bought an entire winter of sweaters and turtlenecks for myself for a whopping $7!

Well.... I am supposed to be working but can't concentrate. Haven't been able to since the fire with so much stuff swirling in my head and prozac now making me sick to my stomach so I've not been taking it and mellow no longer describes anything in my life.

LOve to all. me