Busy, busy, busy

It's the holiday season.  And everybody is always running around like chickens with their heads cut off.  And yes, I do know what that looks like.  We used to butcher our own chickens and it is true about them running around and around whilst being headless.  But I am busy and it isn't completely holiday related.  You see, I am finally getting my house renovated.  Well if you can call it a house.  Basically it is just a workshop on the back of my parent's property but finally were we able to obtain a building permit to have it converted into living quarters.  For ten years, I have been without plumbing.  So imagine having to take a leak in the middle of the night and  having to trudge into my parent's house.  Yeah no fun!!!!!  It will be so nice to have my very own bathroom and kitchen.

On Monday, one of those storage pod things are getting delivered and then I have to box everything up and move it into the pod.  We actually just got done moving the piano into my parent's house and let me tell ya, that was some feat!!!  It is rather a small piano, standing at only about 3 feet tall but boy does it weigh a ton!!!  My brother and I attempted to move it without any tools but that didn't work.  So I went to UHaul to rent out two furniture dollies.  Well we finally were able to wrestle that beast out of the door onto the dollies but they wouldn't easily roll because in the country, and especially after a rainfall, the ground tends to be mushy, muddy and wet!  No nice concrete slabs like you all have in the city!  No sirree Bob! So I suggested that we find a piece of board or two to use as a sort of "moveable walkway" that the dollies could easily slide across. So with the help of my brother, sister, and Mum, we were able to truck it into the front yard of the main house, but getting up those stairs would be a bitch.  Well, the friendly neighbour across the street offered to help.  I was also able to enlist help from our next door neighbour, who had straps which helped us easier get the piano in through the front door.  It was an hour and a half of hard work but we finally were successful in getting the darn thing into the house.  Though I'll admit without Les and Dwight's help, we would have been up shit creek.  But anyway, it's over and done with.  Now I am just nursing a few pinch wounds on my hands and chest, but I will survive.  The sucky thing is that when my house is finished, we have to move the SOB back, but I am hoping to enlist the help of our contractor.

I am on the last stretch for school this year and then I have a month off.  I finished my paper today and have one more to write before Wednesday.  Then we will have our finals on Thursday and then WINTER BREAK!  Hooray!!! Then I can focus on getting ready for Christmas!  Oh, boy!!!! I may need to rent me some elves so that I will be able to get all my gifts for family done in time.

Now I am going to stuff my face with some dinner because boy, oh boy did I work up an appetite after the whole piano fiasco.

Adios!  :)

PHOTO OF THE DAY:
If only I knew where I could get these underwears.  Professor Snape undies, what a wonderful invention! :3