The kitchen is definitely fitting into the whole it has to look worse before it can look better category. This is what it looked like this afternoon:the dogs are "helping"

we removed a cabinet... it was coming off the wall, we might leave it off unless we find that we need the extra storage. It makes the kitchen seem brighter b/c it was blocking some of the light from the room's only window. We might just replace it with some open shelving. We have about 1/2 of the wallpaper off of the walls now, and about 1/3 of the ceiling done.
removing wallpaper from the ceiling is the worst job ever. Good thing that I can't really reach the ceiling :-PJust in case you wanted to know what it's like to be me, this is what I get every time I sit down.