Spaces and faces

To celebrate the new year last night, we watched paint dry. Well, I suppose watching paint dry was just an incidental part of the process: we painted the apartment above the garage! Most of it, anyway! I mostly worked on cutting in around the windows, which was great because I got to look out the windows. This may be the first time we've ever painted walls that weren't already covered with multiple coats of other people's bad ideas. That means the only mistakes we'll have to live with will be strictly our own.

We'll go out and finish painting today, but first, the bearded wonder has promised to make my fondest dreams come true. That's right: he's trimming his beard! I've been wondering whether there's still a face hiding under all that fluff.

There's a tradition that whatever we're doing when the new year begins will set the stage for how we'll spend the entire year. If that's true, 2007 will be a year of painting and shaving--or if you prefer, decorating spaces and finding faces. Not a bad way to spend a year.