Operation: New House for the New Year

Adwoa decided a week before the New Year that she wanted a new house. Adwoa had no intention of selling her current home and purchasing a new home, but Adwoa did want her old home to look new. Adwoa titled her plans "Operation: New Home for the New Year."

Adwoa informed her husband of her plans. Adwoa's husband looked at Adwoa as if she had dropped what was left of her marbles, but still jumped on board and decided to assist Adwoa in her futile task.

"This living room carpet must go and it must go now!" declared Adwoa. Adwoa's husband said "Sure thing, dear!", while silently shaking his head at Adwoa's farfetched plans. Adwoa painted the downstairs bathroom, Adwoa painted her infant daughter's room. Adwoa rearranged the entire living room. Adwoa rearranged the bedroom. Adwoa rearranged her son's room. Adwoa threw a lot of things in the trash.  After Adwoa rearranged the living room, Adwoa's husband toor up the carpet. Not only was Adwoa's newly arranged living room now in dissaray, but the floor under said carpet looked like a war had taken place on top of it.

Operation: New House for the New Year came to a screeching halt.

"Grrrrrrr!" grumbled Adwoa to her husband, stomping her feet. "I want a new house! So can't you just scrape up that paint, bang down those floorboards, smooth out those bumps, yank up those carpet staples and plug in those holes? I can see into the basement!"

"Sure thing," said Adwoa's husband, trying to remember the phone number to the mobile unit.

As the clock struck midnight on New Year's Eve, Adwoa was onstage performing...wondering if the New House Fairy had alit upon her home in her absence. Upon her return home, she was dissapointed to find that it had not. The floor was still a disaster, and her son's bedroom looked like a tornado hit it.

Adwoa decided that changing her thought patterns was the best solution. Instead of going for swift and sudden change over a short period of time, Adwoa decided to go for long-lasting change over a longer period of time. Is the home new yet? Not quite yet...but it's getting there...