where to begin

Presently, procrastination is the bane of my existence. While procrastinating, I'm realizing that chocolate tastes really fantastic with red wine. And Law & Order reruns.

Where to begin?

My husband, the charming, dreamy, smarty-pants Mark left me to live in Zurich, Switzerland almost 2 weeks ago. He didn't really leave me, leave me - he left to begin his new job and to check out the place we will all be calling home within a few months.

I have been left home to take care of a few things: resign from my current position, sell 2 cars, rent/sell our house, take care of George (a Bernese Mountain Dog who misses his father terribly), decide what to take to Switzerland, what to put in my mother's barn, what to give away, what to sell and what to put into a pile and set ablaze... to name a few...

I have spent the past 5 nights wallpapering a very curvy room with many windows in preparation to sell the house. The pattern we chose is beautiful but has a 27" pattern, which meant nothing to me when we bought the paper, but once I began to paper with my mother it soon became apparent that one wastes a LOT of paper while trying to match the pattern ...

I had been enjoying the wallpaper project when it was not rushed and the effort was being made on behalf of the home we were creating, etc... it's less enjoyable now as the clock is ticking down and I won't be the one to enjoy the fruits of our labor -for more than a month or so while I wrap things up here.

I hope that the people who buy our house like this wallpaper and don't rip it down like I did to the paper that was here when we bought the house.