I am back from vacation and need to find some purpose to my pathetic life.  If money were no object, I'd go back to school to find a new field.  Sadly, money is a big issue.  Well, at least I have my knitting and plenty of yarn to keep me busy.  I am also finding pleasure in change.

To begin, I have been wanting to change my living room for a while.  We inherited furniture that was simply too big for the room.  I thought we'd be purchasing new furniture, but once I removed the love seat and added some chairs, I was able to move things around.  In fact, adding the rocking chair to the living room gives me a nice place to knit.  It looks good too.

I am looking forward to the change we have planned for the basement.  We are knocking down walls and giving ourselves one big room as opposed to the two we have now.  The tendency (for Rod and me at least) is to decide how we want the things in the room to be laid out.  We're not going to do that this time around.  Instead we are going to open things up and see what we shall see.

This is Julia's 23rd birthday.  What a joy to have her in this world.  She is bringing me change too -- she moves out this weekend.  Sure, it's only to the city of Manhattan but it's a whole world different than the one we have here.  I hope she embraces the change I so desire for myself.