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Status Report #35 - Restoring order

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Grrrrreetings there, good people! Michael here, and as you can see, it's time for us to return to our regular Status Report series! Of course, the house project we've got going isn't done. And it won't be done for months and months. But that's kind of the point. See, Amalia and i came to the decision that we really need to re-establish some proper routines in our life. Because it's been 3 months, now. 3 months of chaotically tumbling through life, constantly busy taking care of a million things all at once. And how far along are we with everything? ..... oh, we've dealt with about 20% of the whole project. Yep. Don't get me wrong, we've made huge strides, and an enormous amount of stuff has already been squared away and taken care of, but there truly is an immense amount of stuff to deal with. How long will it take until  -everything- is done? Well, hopefully next year around this time, the dust will be mostly settled. And that's just the thing....

Changing Burrows #5: The Neverending Story

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 Hello there, good people! Michael here, and welcome to another instalment of Changing Burrows, the temporary series where we keep you up to date about our inherited house-project! So, plenty of stuff happened since we last wrote, and while we're doing our best to establish ourselves and decorate the place a little... Things, for these past few weeks got a little..... stressful. Like, - really - stressful, actually. We caught ourselves working until 9 in the evening on a Friday, after a very busy week, completely at our limit and on the edge, losing our temper at the literal drop of a hat. That kind of stressful. That was a couple of weeks back. We're better now, but yeah, that was a bit of an unpleasant time for us. Matter of fact, it made us decide to organize things a bit. With how chaotic things are at the moment, there's basically no way to establish proper routines or structure to our life (And we're a stickler for that, so that's a shame!), but we can at leas...