Your Heart's A Mess

Do you know how expensive it is to get a cat de-clawed in just the front in the Milwaukee area? No? Well, I'll tell you. Around $250. Not that I'm complaining. I can eat light for a week or two so that my little Pooh Bear can cuddle with me once more, and so the other cats don't have to shirk around corners because they're afraid of getting mauled. I'm more than willing to be a little tight on cash for a week or two so there can be more peace in the house. But can Keeper? It appears as though E. is of the mind that getting Pooh Bear de-clawed would not be the best choice. I know Keeper is not at all thrilled about spending over $200 on one cat (understandably).

Over the past couple weeks, it have been quite interesting to me to see the differences that Keeper and I have. None of the differences have been particularly bad, just... different. We've been discussing painting the house and redoing the floors. We've also been slowly getting rid of excess furniture. We finally made a list of all the big-budget things that we want to do (including getting Pooh Bear de-clawed, redoing the house, the wedding, etc.), and it's going to be quite a feat to accomplish all that we want to accomplish.

We're going to be starting on the bathroom this weekend. We're going to be priming the walls and cleaning the bathroom top-to-bottom, and I'll hopefully start on drawing the cityscape on the walls for us to paint (hopefully this weekend, but probably next weekend). We also want to redo the flooring in the bathroom, but I think we're still deciding on what to do with that. We might go stone, or might do hardwood... Or maybe just a new linoleum. We haven't for sure decided yet on the flooring in the bathroom. After the bathroom, we're going to be moving on to the foyers (bathroom foyer and main foyer of the house), and painting them a lovely green. For the foyers and the kitchen, we're going hardwood. It's going to be wonderful! After the foyers, we're gonna do the kitchen, and I think we're going to be painting the kitchen in a cityscape again. I don't think we're 100% set on that yet, but that's the plan so far. The living room and the bedroom are gonna be the easiest, I think... So far, we're only planning on painting them, but we might get new carpeting too. It's going to be a pretty huge project. I'm pretty excited to be doing it all, especially with Keeper. :)

It's a lot to put into motion, and I'm really glad we're actually starting something this weekend! I just hope we can figure out how important it all is to us, and figure out how we're going to go about doing everything we want to do. It's going to take a lot of time, and quite a bit of money, but I'm confident that we can handle it. I just really hope we can get on the same page about Pooh Bear, and soon! It's not going to cause any fights or anything, but we do need to decide whether to go through with it or not, and we need to figure out how to go about doing all of the things we want to do.

Hm. I'm venting too much here. And none of this was at all in any negative tone. I think I'll go back to adding to my list of books for the rest of this shift. And then I get to home to E., and play some Wii and make some lasagna. I think I'm also going to add my list to a new page on here. I'll have to play with formatting and whatnot to fit it all. That might take a few days, so keep checking back! :)

Also, here's my new set-on-repeat-and-zone-out song: