fruition

it has been a most excellent day.
a most tiring day, a most exhausting day, but a very rewarding and fulfilling day just the same.

the living room got painted in its entirety and the "new" furniture was picked up.

i am exhausted but i am well pleased. i still have things to do in the living room, obviously. i need to do the windows and the baseboards. the floor. i need to do the decorating. i'll be doing the decorating part and the windows, baseboards, because sadly it's going to be a while before i can afford new floors. maybe i can afford to do that next spring break.

but still, i am pleased.

look, it won't be perfect and when people walk in and look down they will say "ick" compared to the rest of the house, but that's what a work in progress is like. the floors will come. i want to sing "if i had a million dollars" because that is my song right now. the baby child and i sang it as a duet most of the day because we both know we could finish this project if we had a million dollars. rome wasn't built in a day, and i will be happy with what i have because there are people who have less. i have had less. in my childhood i grew up with less many times, but i was happy.

happy is what you make it, it's what you want it to be, it's what you see.

this furniture i got is probably the age of my children combined, but it's in incredibly great shape. it's unbelievably preserved. so yeah, i know, it's not the style or the fashion. but it's what i have, and it's great.

i have this huge chair that folds out to a twin bed now and it's that gold velveteen upholstery. i call it my pimp chair. it's my "whole lotta puddin" chair.

then i have this couch with a very neutral beige and brown pattern with butterflies and flowers, kinda like you would expect your grandma's gynecologist to have in his waiting room. but i adore it because it's really long and it's going to be a great couch for taking naps on.

the most modern piece of furniture is actually a really nice wingback recliner in a nice pattern. it's mom's chair. she wanted one for her room anyway. it's the same chair she wanted, just of a different upholstery than she may have chosen.

and you know, there are always slipcovers, and a million other things i can do if i'm so inclined.

but right now i'm just happy that i can go to my freshly painted living room and sit in a chair and put my feet up and just enjoy being in my own house again, all on my own.