Old and new around the house

Shit has been crazy lately. I started writing this post two weeks ago and here we are. Was going to just delete it, but something about the delay speaks to everything going on right now.

A work project that has been ongoing since about May is finally starting to wrap up – in a few short weeks, the whole ordeal will have ended. Finally. And I can start unburying myself from emails and unfinished projects.

Despite my mostly last minute GRE prep, I think the test went pretty well. I took the new GREs, but was given a score range at the end of the testing based on the old scoring scale, so who knows how it will all shake out. The score range seemed good. Better than expected. Mostly, it is over and I can stop lugging around this beast:

And then I’ve been devoting a ton of time to admin stuff for the community arts center where I’m a board member. Lots of good things upcoming, important changes being made. But I’m exhausted at the moment.

I haven’t been home for much more than sleeping and changing of clothes in what feels like a really long time.

The dishes just sit in the sink. One more frozen meal after another. Sleeping on a flat sheet because I need to do laundry and wash the fitted one (!). It’s pretty bad.

Two weekends ago I finally spent a little time tinkering around at home. Made a huge stir fry and used a bunch of veggies from the farmer’s market. Put together the IKEA cabinet I bought over a month ago:

(was convinced I had taken a picture in my living room, but…yep. Can’t find it.)

Unpacked and sorted another box from my parents’ house, as I’m slowly trying to get everything in one place so I can actually assess how much I have and how much needs to go. A long and sort of overwhelming project.

But the upside? I found my favorite quilt, a high school graduation present.

And I’m not the only one who’s a big fan.