Welllll...... I'd resolved NOT to buy any more STUFF until I cleaned up my apartment and created places to put the stuff that's already threatening to bury me alive. Of course, I broke that resolution on New Year's DAY itself with the purchase of five MORE paperback books, on-sale Christmas cards, yet another page-a-day calendar with cats on it, and a Christmas-cat cookie jar that caught my eye when I was returning a present.

*sigh* So now I really, really MUST stop buying STUFF unless it's additional shelving or some other organizational aid (how boring!). But if I'm good this year and I accomplish my goal, I will have created the space to put the dream instrument I can then (and only then) purchase: a hammer dulcimer.