Day 113
Saturday, July 19, 2014
This was a much harder day than I expected; but at least it
was more productive. Because I slept
later, I got a slow start. But I finally
got busy, and tackled several areas. I have finished sorting through books from
all areas except the shelves in the front hall .. and those are all DH’s books,
and I won’t go through them. I took down
my beautiful white tree (sadness), and books are now piled in that corner (and
I suspect I already wrote that .. days are starting to run together). But I have some things (mainly cookbooks) to
keep, and an enormous pile to take to the library.
I made a long list of areas to be cleaned or sorted or
something. Then I figured how many days
I have to work on it. I tried to be
realistic .. only figured 6 days a week to start with. Then I took out a day for a doctor
appointment; and at least 3 days for yardsale, including prep; and several more
days “just in case”, for visiting or other things that come up. I figured I have approximately 3 to 3 ½ weeks. And after
reviewing the list, and having crossed off 3 items yesterday … I added
about 9 more things (areas) I thought of. L It’s daunting to say the least. I really am trying to be ruthless, but it’s
really hard.
What I did get done was sort through the bathroom linen
closet (hard to actually empty since it’s being used); clean the shelf at the
top of my closet; and the 3 drawers are empty.
I still have to clean the cabinets under sinks (2 of them), and I’ll have
done all I can at this point in the bathroom.
One small room and the whole house yet to go.
Oh, and I “organized” the hall linen closet. I finally matched up all burners with their
boxes. I pulled out a lot of candles for
DSS/TGF. What I still have to figure out
is what to do with way more medical supplies than DN and I are likely to need,
and I have to combine my decorative (taper) candles into as few boxes as
possible. Too bad, I worked so hard to
sort them by color .. but I can’t really tell the colors apart any more anyway
(DN will need to help when I change them).
The down side of how much I got done was that I was dealing
with areas that rarely get attention … so very dusty, and I was choking,
sniffling, coughing. I had to keep
stopping to breathe! At one point I sat
down to nap a bit. Well, I didn’t
actually nap, but I did relax. Maggie
decided to take a nap with me … I love that she’s started doing that, so I didn’t
disturb her.
DN called last night .. she has a computer problem. I didn’t hear from TGF, but she emailed me
(after I had shut down, so got that this morning). I don’t know what will happen today. TGF may or may not come over. I have a lot of things piled on the dining
room table again that I’d like help sorting.
But, this morning I will begin working on it as best I can .. having
learned the hard way to not put off things because I *think* someone is
coming. Too many things go wrong that
way.
I woke too early again.
It’s frustrating to say the least. It makes the day too long; but
apparently I only “need” around 6 hours of sleep. Occasionally I get more, and a few times
less. That’s just what it seems to
average. I’d like it to be more, but
once I wake up … that’s it, I’m awake.
And since I try but rarely manage to take a nap, I guess I just don’t
need the sleep.
I guess I’ll spend a little time (with another cup of
coffee) trying to rethink how much I MUST get done day by day; and then get a
shower and be ready for whatever today brings.
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