luna - "square yard at a time" - hey, I like that. Mabe I can convince myself that getting my apartment restored to nice is achievable . . . if I can think of approaching it one square yard at a time.

Maybe, achievable by Christmas . . . Nah, not this year. We're doing the holidays at my boyfriend's place. Things never get too fouled up there because he won't allow it. Every day he gets after me about any little piles of saved paperwork I manage to accumulate. They seem to pop up wherever I am.