So here’s my current list of things that annoy me. I’m sure I could come up with more items that annoy me if I was at home, but right now I’m at work on my lunch break, so this is the best I can do.

1. Our freezer. It’s too full and we have to fight to get it closed.
2. Our kitchen sink. The faucet is too short and awkward and throws water everywhere.
3. Our washer. It is a front loader and there’s no “SOAK” mode. I can’t get my dish towels to not smell stale.
4. Our closet. Not organized. Not enough space. My side particularly. John’s side is fine.
5. Our pantry. There’s always shit on the floor in front of it. Always tripping over stuff.
6. Shelves above our stove. Not organized, can’t support a lot of weight.
7. Our fridge. We lose stuff. Things go bad. Seems there’s always more moistsure than there should be (and it isn’t an old fridge)
8. Our breakfast nook area. We’ve been toying with removing the table and putting a butcher block type wheeled cart in there for food prep.

So, I need to decide what to pick off next. We’ll go to the plumbing store this weekend to see about the kitchen faucet. But what next?

Obviously we need to keep money in mind. There are a few things we have been weighing.  

1. Do we want to spend the money for a heater upstairs? It would likely be about $7K.
2. Do we spend the money on a new washer and/or dryer?
3. What do we do with the pantry? I’m sort of out of ideas for that. I can’t quite get my head around what we need to do there.
4. Same goes for reorganizing the shelves above the stove.
5. The breakfast nook would be easy to mark off other than figuring out what butcher block to buy or whether to use the one we have in the guest room.
6. Then speaking of the guest room… we need more bookshelves in there. Maybe we spend the money on that.

I know I’m just talking out loud here and there aren’t any “right” answers. But for those of you who know me and read here (all 3 of you), what would you do? Any thoughts?