Day 73

Day 73

mOnday, June 9, 2014

Yesterday I managed to stay busy enough, off and on, to not have too much mental energy for being sad.  Plus, summer’s heat and humidity has descended with a vengeance!  I still refuse to turn the a/c lower; but I take frequent breaks and drink tons of water.

I completely (I hope!!) finished the tape sorting project.  I’m fairly sure there are no more stashes of tapes lurking somewhere … though to be fair, with my vision, it would be easy to overlook something.  Still I’ve tried hard to get at all the areas they might be hidden.  There are 2 more big (heavy!) trash bags to go out; and several bags I’m holding to take to my BFF sometime this summer.

I dusted the mantle real good, but still haven’t put it back together.  I guess I’ve just been too lazy to carry the candle holders back in  from the kitchen.

I also consolidated the smaller of the 2 bookshelves in the front hall.  I couldn’t really tell what DSS had gone through .. apparently anything he didn’t want he just stuck right bac.  So I put it all together, and emptied (nearly anyway) the one unit.  

I may have gotten some other things done … but honestly, I was drifting from one thing to another, and I really don’t even remember. L  But at least I stayed usy.  And when I manage to stay busy … and tire myself out … I don’t get all grumpy and whiny.  Well, not as much anyway!

I was awake by 6:00.  I didn’t really want to get up, but I did.  I knew if I wanted to accomplish anything “big”, the cooler early  nirbubg was my best time.  So, I dismantled the plant stand arrangement that has been in front of the dining room window about as long as I’ve lived here.  Once I got all the way down to the trunks (that have always been covered with a double layer of flannel-backed plastic and a cloth over that), I was very sad to see their condition.  There are a lot of splits in the lids.  I have no idea if they’re fixable or not.  If not, no one else is going to want them, but they’re much too good to just “throw away”.  And if they are fixable, I probably can’t afford it.  But that is all stuff I can’t deal with right now anyway. 

I dragged one trunk to the den to serve as a “coffee table” (although with the uneven lid, not so good; but I have trays).  I was going to drag the other, but very quickly realized that would not be possible.  So, I emptied it.  That one was full of photo albums … I put them on the shelves I just emptied yesterday.  Perhaps going through those will be a good project for the grands later in the week.  I dragged the emptied trunk to an empty corner of the bedroom.  Then I put a small empty bookshelf back in front of the window, flanked by the 2 small end tables I had been using as plant stands.  It’s a nice arrangement .. it’s narrower, so more floor space and lets more light in that window.

And I’m tired!!  Now I’m running “late”.  I know I’m not exactly “on a schedule”, but I do like to try to do certain things by specific times.  I’ve usually showered and fed the cats by now.   Obviously they’ll have to wait; after all, any time I’m gone (which won’t be happening any time in the foreseeable future) more than a day or two, I know no one is bothering to feed them every day like I do.

I don’t know what else I will do today.  It’s going to be very hot and humid, so I need to find things that require less exertion for the rest of the day.  But first I guess I better go get a shower and actually get the day started!