upside down.

i think i stood still and time went really quickly. i seem to have missed the month of june. suddenly its the (almost) fourth of july. how did that happen?

life in the mcclernon house has been unusually productive. we bought ourselves a new couch - surprisingly, after nearly five years together this was really our first big joint purchase. we'd been living on merged furniture and hand me downs. this purchase set off a whirlwind of giving stuff away to steve's sister and goodwill, selling furniture, trashing things that should have been trashed long ago, shredding, organizing, rearranging... needless to say, we're feeling pretty proud of ourselves.

this house has been transformed from when we first found it... and it is hard to believe steve has been living here since october 2006. for the first year and a half he was here, i was pretty much a house guest. he had a roommate and his roommates girlfriend living here and rhodie and i traveled back and forth from here to my parents' house like vagabonds. when i moved in we started painting and he and his dad put in a new kitchen floor. our work sort of stopped after the engagement and then we were busy with the planning....and he was busy with school... and i was busy with work. and from time to time we start working again.

as i'm laying here on our new comfy couch and looking around, i'm smiling.  we've turned this house inside out and upside down. eventually it will be everything we want it to be, probably right before we're ready to sell.