My previous entry contained two spelling errors. One was in the paragraph in which I told you I was doing some editing and contemplating becoming an editor. I find this very amusing.

And just so you know, it is highly unusual for me to type "beacuse" when I mean "because". Usually what I type is "becasue". Really. And half the time I type my name as "Bethnay". What is really funny is that in the above paragraph, I caught myself typing "ediotr". Funnier yet is the fact that I caught the error before I had quite finished the word, so it came out simply as "ediot". Knowing how offended some writers become at the changes their editors make, I am sure there are those who do indeed think of their editors as "ediots".

I'm not going to tell you what the second spelling error was. You'll have to dig through and find it. Unless, of course, you have a life or something.

Moving right along...

In other news related to the previous post, that big mess in the homeschool/art room --the one that very nearly put me over the edge-- turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Hubz felt so sorry for me that he is enlisting some outside help to make sure the mess is taken care of quickly. (This is quite something, since major messes are rarely taken care of quickly at our house due to our unfortunate tendency to look at them and feel totally overwhelmed and suddenly think of 23 other things we need to be doing... and so it goes for days into weeks...) But that's not all. After he & his Builder Buddy Bruce are done packing up boxes and taking care of everything, the two of them are giving me...

...an Extreme Homeschool-and-Craft Room Makeover! Okay, maybe not extreme, but pretty major to me. They are tearing out stained carpet (we'll just have bare concrete floor for a while since new flooring is not in the budget), replacing some of my mish-mash storage with shelves & cabinets that actually match each other, and rearranging the space. They're also putting more shelving in the laundry/storage room so that the finished walk-in storage closet near our school area can be emptied out and transformed into a school-and-art-supply closet. Builder Buddy Bruce & I designed the whole thing out today. Hubz & I have great ideas for every room in our house, but few of them ever materialize; with BBB on board, this one most definitely will, and quickly. Not only that, since he & Hubz usually just trade labor and we are recycling some of the materials, this is not going to break the budget. I cannot begin to tell you how excited I am about this project, but I probably don't need to.

As for my new job, the holiday weekend means I have the next 5 days off. While this is rather unfortunate for the wallet, it does give me more time to do stuff around the house work on the editing and do some school planning. And of course I can hardly wait to organize my new schoolroom as well. Funny how a change of scenery can turn a dreaded task into an exciting one.

So whereas yesterday I woke up wanting to either (a) stay in bed all day or (b) spit nails at anyone with the misfortunate to cross my path, today I have been feeling pretty happy. I am rather up and down like that.

Stayed tuned. I might actually post again sometime.