We are notorious movers. We rarely stay in one apartment for over a year, for one reason or another. This year is no different, and we will be moving after Christmas into a little house near the school. It's housing that is rented only to Landscape Architecture students at an irresistable price. We've been on the "list" and now our turn has come. Yippee!

The current resident was nice enough to give us a walk-through, so I got to check it out beforehand. But, it really didn't matter what it looked like, cause the price was right. Anyway, to my delight, it's cute.

It's an old Spanish-style house with a big front porch, on a nice shady street. The backyard is a jungle and will need a lot of work, but it's big and fenced. The house has 3 bedrooms, one bath (potential crowding issues there, but oh well!!), a nice living room and big kitchen. All hard wood floors, and my favorite feature- walls upon which I can paint.

And paint I will.

We've never stayed in a place that we were allowed to paint. (I'm such a goodie-goodie, I never dared to break the rule!). But now, ahhh, the freedom! I shall paint every inch I can reach! And I'm talking creative painting. Maybe a nice horizontal stripe in Eli's room, a vivid mulberry red in the living room, and something rainbowish for Wrenn's room.

I'm giddy on the fumes already.

If I could borrow Kelly, I bet she could come up with some fun color schemes. I'd then recruit Mike (who's partial to orange these days), Joy, and the rest of the gang to help me paint. Michelle could take some artistic pictures of us at work, Fi could write something witty about our painting skills, and Jeannette could be the dj and play us some music while we paint, and Hugo could do a a running monologue of the whole event. Oh, and Jano can make the beer and pizza run.

I love random linkage.