new room walls, uncomfortable girls.

M is currently putting a second coat of primer on the walls, after having put some touch-up spackle on any uneven spots. After that.. the paint! We ventured out to buy the paint this afternoon, but he probably won't get to put it on until tomorrow. I am feeling extremely impatient. We went with a tan sort of color. After the paint is up, we'll still need to tackle the bathroom before we can really go much further on the home refurnituring project, because I shouldn't be sleeping in there until the paint smell has faded some. And the wall above the shower will need sanded and spackled, and the floor needs something. Morons thought they could leave the hardwood in there AND use the shower AND not pick up their wet bathmats, apparently. This renewed interest in home improvement is really exciting, although I feel somewhat guilty that I can't participate more. We have made a zillion plans, though, and M is doing really well at staying at them. I think he is participating in the pregnancy in the manly way.

Today was supposed to be a family day, but we had a weather situation that prevented us from going. Driving four hours in freezing rain, not really our cup of tea. It's just as well, because this weekend, I've been quite uncomfortable, and I was dreading the car ride pretty badly. Yesterday, my back was killing me, and my belly is just generally sore all over. It seems to get worse if I've been walking around a lot. I did not expect the sore. I don't know why. It's not like I'm terribly uncomfortable and I know that it will get much worse, but I've felt so generally good that it hit me pretty hard that--hey, this isn't all easy. Not that everything has been easy, either, but I think I'm pretty tolerant of the inconveniences because it's so much better than the alternatives. The headaches, which have been the worst part of pregnancy for me, have (knock on wood) been fewer of late, and usually less severe--and besides, I've had headaches all my life so I'm at least used to those.

Did you know that if you neglect to do laundry, and then neglect to do some more laundry, and then throw a hissy fit when you spied a spider crawling out of your bed as you're getting into it and rip all the sheets and blankets off the bed and remake it with the spare set, and also tear apart a guest room and need to wash all the bedding before folding it and putting it away, and then neglect to do a bit more laundry to round it all out... that the laundry situation will quickly become unmanageable and unwieldy and dire, and will take you all weekend to finish? Yes? Apparently I did not know this, because I have done nothing but laundry all weekend long for those very reasons. I've washed things I didn't even know I owned. And I am now blogging about my laundry situation. Yikes. I need help.

Between the laundry and the generalized lethargy, I did work on the moving of a couple of more domains, and it is with semi-relief that I say that BjornInTheUSA has lost its forum. I enjoyed creating the site, it was a little bit of fun for a while, but neither M nor I really had the interest to market it correctly, and it fell dormant, and we barely even noticed. Last post was a year ago. I needed a project, and that's why I created it, but soon thereafter, I got involved in another project and that one was engaging and required a lot of time, and I cared even less about Bjorn. (By the way, the internet hasn't noticed that the site has moved, so it may still show the old site, with forum, if you follow that link. It should be gone within a day or two.) I've left the rest of the site up and theoretically, we could revive it, but I just don't see it happening. I'm now almost done with all the moving I need to do because of switching hosting companies. That is, all the moving except for Mosaic Minds--that one won't be fun. I'm hoping that if I keep saying that, it will work as anti-jinx and the whole thing will go really smoothly...