An "Odyssey" delays picture updates

Progress has been slow but steady at the house (more slow it feels like somedays!) but sadly I can't share any pics because our laptop suddenly started trying to install a program called Odyssey Client that neither of us tried to download and even though we got it uninstalled, nothing has worked right since. Aaron has to start up the desktop and do a little reconfiguring before I'll have picture uploading capabilities.

We figured out at least a temporary fix to our bedroom furniture problem, with Aaron's long-low dresser against the left side of the back wall, taking up about half of it. Snuggled beside that is our bed, leaving me a nice narrow 20" or so gap between the register and the bed edge. It's not ideal, but it doesn't block doors or leave things in likely "stubbed toe" zones. I'm not sure if it will work in winter when the register is trying to kick out major heat (maybe for once I'll be the one that needs less covers in bed!) but for now it should work fine.

And life continues in the Land of "Nothing's Simple." What should have been an easy decorative curtain rod install that took maybe 20 minutes on the long side became an all-evening event as we struggled with a finicky finial which turned out to be factory faulty. We had to go back to the store, return it, and bring home two more (another for the LR, as we were installing the bedroom's) which we checked for functionality before purchasing. It was so late by the time we got home that we just got the rod *mostly* up and hung a big red sheet over it so I wouldn't get disturbed by early morning light. Finding curtains that are the right size and/or the right style has been quite a chore - nice looking things don't often come in the 63" length, and I don't have the patience right now to hem up the 84" to size!

Aaron is actually currently working at low capacity because his heroic efforts with so many things (toilets, drywall, appliances) caught up with him and he's got a nasty case of tendonitis in his right arm/wrist that requires a brace for at least one week. He's stuck at home because of it, but also unable to make major progress because of it! His focus for the week will be continuing to unpack and organize. My focus will be trying to keep a sense of humor in the midst of all these setbacks and the insanity of new homeownership!