Warm and cozy

We just had a new gas fireplace insert installed to replace the totally ineffective unit that came with the house. It was an easy matter, since the gas and electric lines were right there anyway. This is a "furnace-rated" unit that will easily heat the house in case of a power failure - something the old unit failed at utterly. It is the last of our 'panic' responses to the 8-day power outage we suffered last winter in this backwater place we call home. No more life-threatening disasters for us. Winter, bring it on!

It's not the end of other problems though. We have a chair sitting too close to the new fireplace that now has to be moved to the opposite wall, which means the 'entertainment center' furniture piece on THAT wall has to be replaced because it is too big for the new location that IT, in turn, will need to be moved to. And of course, the new entertainment center is sized for a flat screen TV, not our old TV, so we'll be needing a new TV at some point too (which is just as well because all of our DVDs seem to be formatted for wide-screen and look funny on our old conventional TV.) And moving the chair to the 'tall' wall means that new shelves and art work will need to be found to fill in the space so it looks nice...

Do other people have these problems? Or is it just me? (Certainly it can't be said that I don't have long-term goals.)

It IS warm and cozy in here though.