And time drags on

As quickly as we viewed and bought that house is how slow the time has gone since then.  We may have another month yet before it finally closes!  It's hard to believe that it was really only a week and a half ago (almost two weeks, depending on how you divvy up weeks) since they accepted our offer on the house.  The fact that the past few weeks have moved at tortoise pace makes that far off date when we have possession of our apartment and can begin sprucing up and then moving in seem.... interminable.  And of course, I pass the time the best way I can: by torturing myself.  Yep, I've been watching all my favorite HGTV shows none stop, looking at paint colors and thinking about that downstairs kitchen renno which, let's face it, will be the last to come as it's the least absolutely necessary and the might possibly be the most expensive.  It will be a few years before we're able to do more than rip up carpet and paint, but I'm all about getting on that now.  I will just have to patient.  I keep imagining myself in my new kitchen: how I'm going to set it up (because it is small and will be a challenge), how I will make it work for Bittman, Waters and I.  Oh yes, I have been plans for the three of us.  If being a somewhat haphazard mommy doesn't get in the way.  I also think about how I hope I might be able to makeover that hall bathroom somehow.  And make the whole thing a very livable home for the foreseeable future.  But that is still long months down the road...