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My monitor is starting to die. I also tried taking some over-the-counter allergy medicine, to see if it helped, and it did. Both have pushed me to spend more time away from the computer, so I started spring cleaning in the dining room.

I went through it and dusted every single thing, and found some things that could just as well go away. I washed the vertical blinds and put them away and put up a curtain. Trimmed all the dead parts off the plants, and repotted the ones that needed it.

I also moved the table. We have a small dining room and a long, narrow table and I never thought that there was enough room to turn the table the other way, but there is!–if I put one end of it right up to the window. This also frees a little floor space at the end of the room. So now it feels like a whole different room to me. Now when I look into the dining room from the kitchen, I see the table end-on, and all the books and trivets on it don’t dominate the view.

I made a start on the living room, but it has been slower going, because MFH has been home sick most of the week, and also I’ve been thinking ahead to what I want to do in some of the other rooms.

Lately, I have been reading lots of home design books, analyzing floor plans, and thinking about what we will need in our next home. It’s clear to me now that our current apartment is actually too big for us, in some ways. The bedrooms are too big, it’s a long trek across the kitchen with a baby clinging to your leg, and we don’t really need the second bathtub. We do miss not having a garage, or an attic, or a basement, or a laundry room, or a yard. Everything we have is right in our living space.