These dreary, rainy days are about to do me in. My kitchen has even less lighting that it did two weeks ago and with no sun, it’s DARK in there. I have a bedside lamp on the counter with the shade off so I can see to wash dishes.

Things One & Two are buck-nutty wild and I’m tempted to send them out in the rain and mud anyway. It won’t kill them, just make a huge mess for me to clean up. DH is still sick and snotty and I think one of us needs to sleep in the spare room tonight.

I’ve lost my motivation to do much of anything. There’s no point to keeping the house picked up or clean. Stuff is just stacked and stuck everywhere. I have no pressing sale-related work to do for another month or so. Every time I walk in the office I sit down and surf to random time-wasting websites and I need to quit.

Oh, someone is screaming again…

Mother’s Day was uneventful. I got memory boxes the boys made at Lowe’s, my ratty own potholders that I sent into preschool not knowing what they were needed for, returned to me with a painted handprints on them, flowers that I can’t smell, and a GPS watch for running that DH ordered using my email address that hasn’t arrived yet.

I think my allergy attack late last week was actually a cold and it’s still lingering. Saturday I had a low grade fever and stuffed myself full of all sorts of OTC meds. Dinner was take-out Chinese since I thought hot and sour soup sounded good. We ended up at Max and Erma’s for dinner last night and I’m suppose to go to Mom’s Night Out with MOMS tonight. Thing One and Thing Two are signed up for Parent’s Night Out at the Y on Friday, so LOTS of restaurant eating for me. Good for the taste buds, bad for the scale.

MD consisted of DH and the boys ripping out the kitchen ceiling and the sheetrock off a wall while I read web sites about my camera.

I need to post pictures of the kitchen. Removing the ceiling revealed some interesting plumbing issues from when the last owners re-did the master bath and I just hope that it doesn’t turn into a major problem. Electrician is coming this week. Cabinets are glazed but not finished but it doesn’t matter since we’ll be away for Memorial Day and the weekend after. I need to clean up all the guest spaces so the (family) cabinet installing crew will have room to sleep. BIL #1 offered to come help install, which is great, but they are going to WDW the second week of June, which pushes cabinet install back even further. We still don’t know about going to Europe in June, which would also push cabinet install back.

I want to learn more about photography and to that end, have a stack of books out from the library and a bunch of websites bookmarked. I have a Canon S3IS, so not a full DSLR, but not a crappy P & S either. The S3 is great outdoors but terrible indoors on auto mode, so I’m trying to learn enough to take it out of auto and get some results that I actually like.

I’ve also gotten my scrapbook stuff out again and want to work more on that. I’ve got about 2 months before consignment sale work kicks back into high gear and I at least need to finish my Disney albums, never mind Thing One and Thing Two’s baby book.

I ran this morning on the treadmill even though I don’t feel great and registered for a group personal training class that meets once a week in June and July. If I’m paying for the class, I have to go, right?

One bank of cabinets is totally out. The soffit above is gone too, and the old tile backsplash is down.

FIL will have new cabinets done in 2-3 weeks. We’ll be away over Memorial Day and the next weekend and hopefully the weekend after that, the new cabinets can go in. Unless of course, DH and I are somewhere in Europe. He says Frankfurt is the first week of June, then London the second week, and Paris is the third. Even more a reason to hope for London or Paris!

Anyway, before cabinets can go in, the rest of the old cabinets have to come out, electrician needs to do his thing, and drywall/new ceiling need to go up. Sink is ordered, can lights are ordered. I’m in the process of moving the rest the contents of my upper cabinets to boxes in my dining room. DH is trying to keep the lowers and the island in place as long as possible so I have sink, dishwasher, and cooktop.

We still need to choose new decorative lights, choose drawer pulls & knobs, and choose new backsplash. I think we finally decided to try to match new hardwood to existing to cover the gaps instead of changing part of the floor to cork or tile.

Best case scenario? Everything is in place by end of June. I’ll be happy if it is all done by end of July.

Our economy stimulating tax rebate money is in our account! Hmmm… how should we stimulate the ecomomy?