It's April 25th

You heard me. I can't believe it is April 25th and I have had nothing to say! I have been reading.... that usually makes me a hermit because I have to Finish. The. Book. No. Matter. What. once I bury myself in one.

So what have I been reading?

I just finished _Hypocrite in a White Poufy Dress_ by Susan Gilman. I looked at it at Target and read a few pages and was hooked. She grew up around the same time as me and these are stories about her growing up in NYC. I didn't grow up in NYC but I did grow up in NY-- Long Island, some in NJ (which is like little NY--the lost borough) and Syracuse (ie. "the sticks"). Much is familiar, so I was laughing remembering the late 1970's and the 80's.

I am also reading about three other books on and off (Eat,Pray, Love; The Other Boleyn Girl(finished), Spending, The Autobiography of Henry VIII, --I'm going through a Tudor phase, and also another book about a volcano and a city in Italy, then we have the magazines and some craft type books. I am teaching myself to crochet with The Happy Hooker and have been wandering around my dump of a house (with all this reading, you think I have time for housework?) trying to figure out how I am going to0 move my sewing lab up to the front living room so I can gut the basement out for the dry basement people to do their thing and then refinish my basement. Mike is very doubtful about the sewing area being in the front of the house where people can see it first when they walk in the door. I find myself reaching for straws, wildly promising "we'll make big screens from folding doors-- I'll figure something out, we will be creative"....lol he can hardly handle the creative miasma that is my house now.

Other disturbing tendencies... I am thinking of painting my den quite often. This is disturbing because I painted it last year. I spent big money on expensive, tasteful, neutral paint and nearly killed myself caulking and painting all over the house hoping someone would fall in love and buy it. Now it looks like masking tape color. I have the same color in my kitchen accented with blue counters and cream cupboards. Since the rooms are continuous I thought it would make it look bigger. But it doesn't. We have to restain our deck this year too-- and Mike is working in Illinois this month.

I have to go to work now and tonight I have knitting. Tomorrow I get lasik eye surgery. So I'll fill you in on my latest way to torture myself once my eyesight returns.