new year, new roomate and dead birds

i'll start with the dead birds -- check out the story on the nytimes site. so this caused me to work from home this morning. and although we went in at around noon, congress avenue was still closed, and we had to detour around it. shortly after arriving, the streets opened up and all was well. no reports yet on what caused it, but no *person* was hurt, so that's good.

new roomate -- my music man moved in (cat, tv and all) on friday. i was a little anxious about it, but it's really been great. very easy, and comfortable. we're figuring things out, but no major catastrophes yet.

new year -- well, yes, it's 2007. i haven't really made any resolutions (am i too old for that yet?!), at least not any i have made public. i figure if i keep them to myself, then no one can tell me i didn't keep them. how's that for reverse psychology!

i do have a list of projects to get done on the house, and have slowly begun them. one of the things was to organize the garage, and it's pretty good right now. my next focus is the laundry room and removing the popcorn ceiling -- which i hear is very easy, just messy. so that's on my agenda for this month. i'll be sure to take before and after photos and post them here.

i hope everyone had a good holiday season and has a healthy new year. i'll be sure to post more often now that the holidays are officially over. (tree's even down, i didn't miss having to cut all the limbs off the tree to get it downstairs without getting needles all over the hallway).