It’s been a while since I’ve posted about Ceann Uide and our communal living experiment. This week is kind of hectic for us. The last few months have been frustrating on lots of levels.

We’ve got a household meeting on Saturday. The first work of the day is to clean the house top to bottom. We’ve been doing some of that all week. I cleaned and rearranged the study on Tuesday. George and Elizabeth cleaned the bathroom. The three of us went through the magical supply cabinets and culled and organized their contents. The kitchen is pretty clean. The only real cleaning left is a little in my room, and the music/spare room. It’s a mess. Mostly because there is far too much stuff in it. I suspect a lot of the stuff in it needs to go to storage, or have a better home found for it.

We wanted to have regular meetings to keep things smooth with all of us. We’ve tried but it’s been hard. None of us have wide open schedules, but we hardly ever see Mark. I have to admit that that frustrates me. I don’t know that we’ll ever be as close with Mark as Lizzie, George, and I are. I’d like us to be, but I don’t think it’s required for us to live together happily. That said, I wish I saw Mark more. I don’t get to sit and talk to him. I don’t get to share with him as much as I’d like. Hopefully now that our schedules are all a little more clear that will be less of an issue.

Communal living isn’t easy. There are times when it’s damn hard to live with three other people, to put up with them. There are moments when I just want to hire a moving company and get myself a nice little one bedroom again, free of the sharing and space restrictions. I’d be miserable after a few weeks. I need people around me, but there are moments when I think I’d prefer it.

Bealtainne is coming soon, and we’re planning our potluck/party for the night. It should be interesting, it always is.

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