it's a new month

May 2008 did come to a close. And finally some GOOD news...

• My friend's brother was moved from MICU to a regular room yesterday.
• Dean was moved to a rehab facility today.
• And I got an email this morning sent by a long-time friend late yesterday announcing the birth of his son earlier in the day. Yea! Something to CELEBRATE!!

I even got another "chunk" of the unpacking done this past Saturday. I got the china & crystal unpacked and put in the hutch. I also got the pink dishes (some depressionware and some other) that my "other" mother gave me last spring (before she passed away last November) unpacked and in a curio cabinet.

With the boxes that had been sitting in the dining room unpacked, I also moved the stack of all the boxes that had been unpacked & broken down out of the dining room to the garage & a storage area. So, the living room / dining room combination is looking pretty "homey." I am not hanging pictures yet. I want to replace the dining room furniture, but that will not happen until the other house sells. And I don't want to start hanging pictures until I know I have furniture where I want it.

Now, it's time to start unpacking and organizing the storage closets. Or time to do a little landscape work in the yard. Both of those will likely wait until I catch back up on the yardwork at the other house.

The month has started well. Hopefully, it will end even better -- with the sale of my other house!