Bring it on, winter!

Today Shannon's mom and step-dad and her sister came over and helped us winterize The Paneled Palace, just in time for a really lovely day. We sealed plastic over all of our windows (on the inside) except for the ones in my room, as the heat grate is right outside my bedroom door. We even did the ones in the kitchen, although I think we're going to get a curtain and a tension rod so we can kind of seal it off, since we don't spend a ton of time in there and it would be cheaper to not heat it (but not let it get so cold the pipes freeze!). Ahh, the joys of an old house and a floor unit heater. But we knocked it out and even got all the blinds back up and you can't even see the edges of the plastic on the sides of most of the sheers. So now we are ready for it to be cold. And I got some shorter layers cut into my hair yesterday, but I got up at 6:20 this morning, when I had to be at church at 7:00, so I didn't have a chance to futz with them.