Five minute blogging: Mental Space

 My new job (which is still great) occupies almost none of my brain power except for the actual hours I'm at work.  This is such a sharp contrast to the previous 8 years of professoring while worrying intensely about the future that I almost don't know what to do with myself. 

So I've been doing house projects.  I've started mopping (steam mop 4 life) and keeping the house nicer and more dust-free (because I have time and energy while listening to meetings where I don't have to talk). I've been tidying up the garden.  I redid a bathroom and replaced half the light fixtures in the house.  I've scheduled a down to the studs reno for the upstairs bath and bought all the pieces. I organized to have three sliding doors replaced and then I repainted the downstairs living room.    And THEN,  with Nicky's excellent advice,  I've redecorated the whole room.  

After and during painting:

("Wow, that's much better!" someone said tonight.)

I probably need to think about what to do next because I will eventually run out of house BUT I'm discontented with the paint colors upstairs.....