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Wayyy overdue

I kind of forgot about the blog for a while :) I thought I'd try to post something of an update.

James had his BFA show in Ceramics in December, and his Sculpture show is on April 30, in about two weeks. He's been in the studio almost every night, working on his bronze pieces.

James and I have been spending all our free time remodeling Beyani's room. Is so cute - finally how we wanted it - and now we're going to put the house up for sale! Hopefully all the work will pay off, either in a sale or a rental of the house. To date we've gutted and remodeled two of the three bedrooms (the other was fine as it was) and both bathrooms, had the roof and water heater replaced, painted the rest of the interior, refinished the kitchen cabinets, replaced the kitchen appliances with stainless steel, and replaced stock door handles, heater vents, electrical plates, etc with higher quality. Of course, after the realtor came and said we should do a short sale, losing our down payment and everything we've put into the house, we felt kind of foolish doing all this work. If the right person doesn't come along we will rent it out for a few years.

James will be starting an MFA program at the California College of the Arts in Oakland/San Francisco in the Fall. We're dreading the move but excited to be coming back to California. We never felt at home in Flagstaff, so are happy to be making the change. It will be really good to be close to friends and family again.

We adopted a rescue Turkish Van cat around August of last year. I renamed her Kisou. She's had a rocky relationship with Beyani, and doesn't love her like Shiro did, but she does love me and is a good lap cat.

Well, that's all the big stuff. I'll try to update more often now.