The house is a total mess, and I am heartily tired of it.

The kitchen floor is waiting to be finished, and we’ll give the living room floor a new finish at the same time. (It’s yellowed and scratched and scruffy, who knows how old the varnish is.) We’ll need to empty the kitchen and the living room for that. We’ve known that this is coming up “soon” for a while now, so some things that we packed away to make space back in May (such as most of Adrian’s things) are in boxes that are stacked in various places around the house. For three months now.

And all the rooms are swapping places – our bedroom moves, Ingrid moves, Adrian gets a room of his own – which means more boxes. And furniture and rolled-up carpets and paper bags of stuff, piled up here and there.

The floor guy has been on vacation so this has dragged on. But early next week the floor will finally get done and then we’ll have turned the corner and we can finally start putting things in order instead of making the mess worse.