Forgotten blog

Oh dear, how the mighty blog has fallen. Sometimes, breaks are needed and I have been going a mile a minute in this life. We have a lot to catch up on.

At the end of the summer, I moved into a house. Not just any house. THE house. Catrin and I had an image in our combined heads and we wouldn't settle for anything less. We searched high and low, searching for good points to some of the crappiest places. "Well, I'm not sure why a sofa cushion is nailed to that fence post, but I'm sure it's for good reason!" Or, "If we get some tall plants, criminals won't even know there's a window here."

Instead, when we said, "Well, there's no wall whatsoever, but there ARE 5 Carolina Wren chicks living in this built-in shelf" it translated to, "This house is nothing but possibilities. It's perfect!"

Well, perfect until it gets filled with 8 feet of water. Why is that a risk? Because we just so happen to have the San Marcos river in our backyard. It's a great feature, until it gets out of hand. We have insurance and will cross that bridge when we come to it. If it's not underwater too...

I am back at TX State, studying English, Geography, and minoring in Education. The past semester was great with easy classes. I am currently working as a prep cook at Cottonseed Cafe, which is adorable with delicious, homemade food.

So one of my New Year's Resolutions is to get the outside of this house looking as cared for as the interior. Now that it's winter and things are dreary, people in our small "town" have probably noticed by now that the flowers in the front yard are fake. I'm betting, come spring, they'll look just fine again. Anyway, I am starting with the side door that everyone enters through. I have grand plans for every area of the yard, but I have all this space, it would be a shame not to dream big and do the place justice. I'll be using only native, hardy, non invasive plants and, hopefully, little money. Today, after I hauled away some junk and raked a hundred pounds of leaves, I found that there is a strip of concrete slab covering a foot from the house. So, I threw my plan out and started again. The project has now doubled in size, but it is going to be amazing once it's done. I'm pretty sure I'm going to need a bobcat for this.

Another resolution is to start coming up with other sources of income. I am broke always, now that I'm a college kid again. Another is to learn the piano. 2011 is going to be a busy year.

I'll try and post in here more frequently, but I'm making no promises.