Baby steps with short legs

When I got home from work yesterday, I found two signs of marked progress:

1. I can now get to my refrigerator. Hello, milk! I've missed you in my coffee. Luckily, I had the sense to get rid of all moldering vegetables before they sealed the kitchen off a week ago.

2. The was one fewer loud wind-generating machine in my house, so I could actually watch TV without the volume turned all the way up. I watched the "Lost" and "ER" I taped two weeks ago, so now I'm only one week behind.

Watching last week's shows will be interesting, though, b/c I got my sister to Tivo them and my VCR is not currently ejecting the one videotape I've been using to tape shows over and over for the last three months.

In other news, I picked out some beautiful ceramic tiles (neutral/pinkish, to go with the Baby apsirin walls) and blue-gray clear glass accent tiles. The glass was bound to make it in somehow. Now, if I could just get the floor installer to call me back....

Still, just having a refrigerator again is a huge step forward. I can live with appliances in the living room, too. The one really big hindrance right now is the gigantic countertop in my hallway that's blocking the bathroom door and requires legs slightly longer than my own to step over it easily.