Spring Thaw
Welcome back to a more regular update schedule on our home reno project. We took a very necessary planned break at the start of 2023 to get healthy and plan out projects for the year. Unfortunately this planned break was directly followed by Brie's workload at her actual, factual job forcing her to work 60 hour weeks for over a month and just recently the house took revenge on her for her constant meddling by having her slip off the back deck and badly sprain both her ankles rendering her couch-ridden for a couple of weeks. I also had some high stress job stuff happen, but everyone's already heard about all that so let's get on with the recap! *** There isn't a particular narrative through-line to this stretch of the year other than the natural ebb and flow of choices and life events, one into the other. I decided that I wanted to put extra effort into spending time with our wonderful group of friends here in the DMV and so I set up a monthly movie group, which people