We started with a garage. Now we have a new master bedroom suite. The plan going forward is to move my step son out of the small bedroom into our old bedroom, and then my wife and I will move our desks from the living room to the small bedroom and make it our office.

As of last night we are all moved into our new bedroom. As of 10 minutes ago our old bedroom is completely empty. On Wednesday we are having someone who isn’t me come in and paint it to a color my step son chose. Then next weekend we move all of his stuff into our old/his new room. Then at some point after that the painter comes back and paints his old room/our new office. After that we head to IKEA to get both kids some new bedroom furniture. IKEA is their choice. Then the painter comes back again (hopefully, we haven’t actually booked this yet) and paints my step daughter’s room.

We get a new bedroom and a new office, one kid gets a new bedroom, both kids get new beds and fresh paint, and all of us reclaim a ton of space in the living room. I think I want to get a comfy recliner to celebrate.

Oh yeah, there is a Thanksgiving and a Christmas and a weekend in New York thrown in there for good measure.

It has already been a crazy couple of months, and the crazy is going to keep up for a couple more months. Totally worth it.

What do you call the little seat that sits at the end of your bed?

What do you call an Apple friendly end table?

Oh for cripes sake.

Yes it is November and that means it is National Solo Album Month again. I have been so busy with travel and home renovations that I haven’t had much time at all. I’m not completely shut out. I have five songs in progress. Just bass/drums/keyboards so far. No actual real instruments, just midi stuff in GarageBand. I had hoped to record all of the guitar parts by mic’ing up my little Vox amp, but now it feels like I’m going to have to go the direct input route again. I am hoping that after things settle down tonight I’ll have a few minutes to track some guitar parts. We’ll see.

This dresser was easy to move. The drawers come out easily and it’s not too heavy.

This bastard though. It weighs 11,036 pounds when it’s empty and the drawers are out. Today though? I couldn’t get the damn drawers to pop out….

So I moved the bad mutha as is. Who is the mover man? I am the mover man!

Not gonna lie. When I got the sonofanitch around the corner from the hallway into the dining room I may have spontaneously shouted at the top of my lungs, “son of Jor-El! Kneel before Zod!”

Yup. I just might have.

Define, “bitch”…

…moving the bed into the new bedroom.

Oh, and we haven’t even started thinking about the dresser yet. Yikes!

I bought a pocket watch from NASA last week. Jealous?

Look at me. Hanging blinds like some asshole who knows how to hang blinds.

Give it five minutes… the windows will probably fall out.

Still have some touch ups to do, but the walls are painted.

I sure hope the amateur* we hired to paint the new bedroom is up to the task.

*I’m the amateur we “hired” to paint the new bedroom.