I love that my cats are worried about the fact that Josh is not home. I do not love the fact that they are taking turns in expressing their worry. One is either walking around howling or the other is pacing and eventually shredding things. I’m going nuts with these two. At least they are getting along a lot better. They still keep a little distance, but they are hanging out within feet of each other. They touched noses last night. Progress!

Yesterday morning they chased each other around the house for nearly four hours. There were a few little breaks, but those lasted no more than five minutes. That was usually to try and figure out why I was moving furniture. I moved furniture because yesterday I took down the very dated curtains* and wood rods in the bedroom and installed new rods and curtains. I didn’t just take them down. I actually fixed the wall (fill, sand, orange peel and paint) and then installed the new ones.

Unfortunately, I decided I should wash and iron my curtains after I had measured and poked holes in the lovely looking wall. Why was this unfortunate you ask? Because the curtains effing shrank! Yes. They shrank a good five inches. FIVE INCHES people! I washed them carefully too! So, I had a bit of a breakdown and IMed Josh to tell him of this tragedy. As I was messaging him, I had an epiphany.

I used similar tabbed curtains in the guest bedroom and I hadn’t washed them due to time constraints (guests coming). I tried them on the rod and they fit perfectly! I put the shorter ones in the guest room and they look perfect in there. So, the moral of the story, if your curtains say dry clean only, don’t risk it. Dry clean only.

* See this pre-purchase photo of the guest room for the same lovely 80s style curtains.