Not the most creative title, but Chappy wanted me to show you my sweater progress. I’ve got the entire sweater done from the waist up to the underarms, and am now working on the back. I haven’t measured it yet, but I’d say it’s about 4-5″ long or so, so …. another 3″ and it’ll be done. Then I’ll do basically the same thing to finish off the two fronts. (Then sleeves. Then seams. Then button bands. You know, what you’d expect.)

I’m still having trouble getting proportions right (even with accurate measurements),  but I’ve been working on these, too.

Apparently I’m too tired to get proportions correct, but it gives you an idea of what our new home will look like. (Well, kind of.) From left to right, that’s the ground floor, the upstairs, and the downstairs. Roughly. I still can’t get the funky angles in the upstairs hallway correct–it doesn’t really open up as widely as that–and somehow the measurements of the kitchen/living room don’t seem to work, but you’ll have to trust me. The building’s walls all DO match.

We saw the inside again today. We met the landlord (or the landlord’s agent, whatever) at lunchtime to deliver the medicine chest Mom and I bought a week ago. (More bathroom storage, yay!) While we were there, we measured things again–this time using the rough floorplan I’d put together in Excel.

My sister got to see the inside, too–she gave me a ride over. My Volvo is still at the shop. Remember, I told you about how it wouldn’t start on Saturday morning to drive up to Rhinebeck? Because the key wouldn’t turn in the ignition? Well, they had to order the part from Volvo and that will take about 5 business days. That’s a week! Without my car! I don’t think I’ve ever been without a car for so long since … well, since I got my first car in 1988. (Just barely in 1988, on January 2nd. And yes, I do remember the date; I was excited.)

Anyway, since I was carless, Patty came and picked me up at work–with my lunch–and drove me over to the townhouse. (I sat in the corner of what will be my bedroom to eat it. Mom thought I looked kind of sad and pathetic.)

The biggest problem with the room I’ve picked for my bedroom? It’s not that there’s a huge chunk of room cut out by the diagonal doorway that makes two walls only about 6 feet long when the “inner” dimensions of the room are about 10×10. No, the biggest problem is that it has the smallest CLOSET. Only 52″ compared to the 59″ one in the other room. (And, I’m sure that some of you will think that a closet that big is huge, but the closet I currently have? 76″ wide. And I have two of them. Try not to be jealous–I’ve only got them for two more weeks.) So I now have to come up with a way to cut 2-feet of clothing out of my existing closet … This could be challenging.

I was talking to my sister about this on the way back to work, and the look on her face when I told her that I got dressed as soon as I was out of bed in the morning, even before going to the bathroom, was priceless. Hey, it’s a habit I’ve had since college–I hated wandering the dorm hallways in my pajamas! (Her expression when I said that I don’t turn the light on, either, but get dressed in the dark was even more fun–kind of like the expressions on Carole’s blog today. Yes, even though I keep my clothes sorted mostly by type and color, sometimes I grab the wrong thing, in which case I correct the error after breakfast.)

How about another look at that sweater?

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