Opinions Wanted!

There is a townhouse that we like both the location and layout/size of. It is begin offered for rent, and the owner could be hesitant about us making changes, i.e. painting. (This is the impression I got from our agent, but I don't have a definite answer yet.) Now, this isn't me wanting to cover plain white walls -- just the opposite in fact. There is a lot of DIY faux-type painting and strange interesting color combinations. I'd love it if some (all?) of the rooms a little more.... tastefully decorated. Besides that, it has nice newer appliances and window treatments. It seems that nice places in good locations that we can afford are few and far between. Would you go forward with it, and assume that you'll be able to ignore the current paint jobs after living with them for a while?

I'm thinking yes right now, but I keep waffling back and forth.

Here, not knitting.

I’ve haven’t gone this long without posting in a while. Real Live has been taking over lately and besides that, I seem to have lost my talent for knitting.

I’ve:
cast on a Chevron Scarf, but didn’t like how the colors were pooling or the needles I chose,
cast on an Urchin hat, but wasn’t paying enough attention and ended up with a misshapen blob,
cast on Urchin again with hand spun yarn and ran out,*
worked on my toe-up Anastasia sock but forgot to add the lace pattern to the back of the sock after the heel.

It feels like there was something else in there as well, but I can't remember what it was. The only semi-worthwhile knitting I have done is on a Wool-Ease scarf, but even that is only a row or two a night.

*I guess this will be my first attempt at recreating yarn on a spinning wheel. Problem is I was using my very first wheel yarn to make the hat and have improved just enough since then to be unsure of how to get the random blobs and underspun places it contained. It seems to be an acquired skill once you past the “did it on accident” phase.

Real Live for the month of February has revolved around real estate and finding a new place to live. Anyone who has ever done this can attest to what an exhausting process it is. I’ve hardly been home at night after work at all, and have eaten more fast food in the past few weeks than the last five years of my life.

We found the Perfect Place for us last week, and thought everything was done, when the deal fell through because the current owner was an ass. Now the trouble is nothing else is measuring up to that place. Sigh. I am very very close to giving up for now and staying where we are, but dammit! I want a garage to park in!