the official "get off your ass" post
this is me, julia, getting off her ass to blog in the new year.

really, there's been a lot going on. i think i'll can the deep introspective post-age and just write a freaking diary today.
so erik and i got the keys to our house. it's lovely and quite large. and it's in a place called Wateridge. i can't remember how many times we swore we'd never live in a freaky master-planned community with a name like "forest glen" or "wateridge." wait, forest glen is wine, right? mmm, wine. regardless, wateridge. perhaps there WAS "water" there, before they developed. and now it's only a "ridge" because they bulldozed it a little and sliced the top off the hill. and what happened to that second "r"??? shouldn't it be waterridge?
no really, it's a lovely area, and it's MIXED-USE. that's the little thread that's still hanging, allowing us to feel a little socio-conscious still.

so ALL of the first week of the year, before my trip to the bay area, was spent tracking down paint colors. we decided to use Safecoat (and if i was on the ball, i'd drop a link here.) Anyway, Safecoat is apparantly, flukily, a san diego company. but how many stores sell it in san diego? 1! yes, one. that's open until 5 on weekdays and closes at noon on saturdays.

and this weekend, we painted. and painted some more. it turns out that a gallon and a half of paint already on the walls is really not quite the right color. warning: Silver Birch looks neither silvery nor birchy. it's really more of a pastel pale green. it's quite nice, actually, for a bathroom or a baby room. but not for our dining room and breakfast nook. oh my goodness, we have a breakfast nook.

we're also putting bamboo wood flooring in soon (again, we're trying to cling to the last threads of ecological worth). oh, and some real tree wood, too. but it's maple. the canadians have plenty of trees.

i also spent a whole weekend (the aforementioned bay area trip) discussing god and progressive christianity and relationships. it was very affirming for me to be around a bunch of liberal hippies who love jesus. more on this later.