Day 113

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.