Monday … today started WAY too early. My insomnia is not improving…it’s been getting worse and worse…maybe it’s the weather. Maybe it’s the time of year. Maybe it has something to do w the distraught state of our house… Hopefully, that will get better soon.
So…what am I going to do this week? It’s a busy week, even without any of my own stuff in it. R has tons to do. His dad is going into the hospital to have knee replacement surgery…there’s golf, maybe two nights. Jazzfest, which E really really looks forward to every week. R was too sick for us to go last week, even though he told me the kids and I should still go. Nope. Not while he’s sick. Plus, there is a float trip coming up this week-end too. *sigh* so much to do …
But, I have all this ^other^ time on my hands? What exactly are my plans? (If I write them down and make them public, will I not have a much better chance of actually accomplishing something??)
N’s room…my top priority. E has her room all to herself. Now it’s time to pull all the not N stuff out of N’s room. This entails moving one dresser into the basement and one dresser out of the basement. A lovely wooden storage chest is also basement bound. I also need to go through all his clothes…he’s a husky little thing…not to mention, we can’t find where he took off his sandals…weeks ago…we are still looking. Hopefully, we can finally find them.
If I were really good, I’d clean out the fish tank. We have lots of little babies running around … even orange ones, and more spotted ones. If I were really really good, I’d get R to sit down to hold one bun or the other and groom my rabbits…because they are in sore need of it…why I had to get angoras is beyond me. Sure sure sure. The whole spinning thing. It sounded good at the time.
Rabbit note: I am this close to only having one rabbit…I keep telling myself it takes 2-3 months after getting your rabbit fixed for all the testosterone to leave his little system…if Simon doesn’t quit marking his territory to prove that’s his side of the cages, I think I might be having braised rabbit for dinner here soon. Charley calmed right down after surgery. Humper bunny Simon though is still…bonkers. Patience, of course, is not my virtue. But in this case, I am trying.
Btw…do you know how to tick a dog off? Give your bunnies each a piece of zinger (yes, a small piece) and don’t give the dog any. Drives the dog nuts. (dogs here are not allowed to beg, even though they try to get away w it…which is why the buns got zingers in the first place) Kids don’t much seem to mind though…maybe because I like the yellow zingers and they like the chocolate ones…
Sand and repaint the blue dresser. N inherited this dresser, I think from his great grandfather? It was ugly when we got it. It had chips and pieces knocked out. So I repainted it…and added some texture to cover up bumps and dings on the sides…I changed the handles…and I totally did not think about it but I basically painted it the Blues team colors (which is T’s favorite sports team—and the only St Louis sports team I have anything to do with here). Well, the paint has been …ahem…burned in several places (from incense) and the whole side panels thing is bothering me…plus, I just simply do not like it anymore. N helped me pick out colors yesterday…I have to sand the thing down…remove all the stuff (it started out as tissue paper and kid’s school glue, then painted over—it is a pretty cool effect—I am just…tired of it) on the sides…and start over. With claret wine and nutmeg paints…I am not sure yet which paint is going to be the focal paint and which the accent paint…but for some reason, those are the two paints we chose. Oh, we chose those because home depot did not have much selection in the realm of red…candy apple red was not nearly where I wanted to go…but these two will do quite well. Plus, I’d like to get this done before N comes this week-end. He can be very *helpful* at times. Then again, so can his sister.
Our closet in the master bedroom is enough to make me shriek right now—so that has to be done. Since we are STILL waiting for Mr Sandless (it’s a lovely game of phone tag, it is. The guy, Lou?, will call R at work on R’s cel, and R cannot always grab the cel when it rings. Lou says call me any time, here’s my office number. I’ll be here til 5. Here’s my cel. Call me anytime. R can call back within 5 minutes of Lou leaving the message, well before 5 or whatever time Lou gives—and gets voice mail at the office number and the cell number. Isn’t that just convenient? And I am not talking once or twice—I am talking every single time. No matter when R calls, it’s always voice mail. Ask me again why we will never use them again and why we will never recommend them to anyone…). I have pretty much had it. Our closet floor has been in disarray because we’ve been waiting for Mr Sandless to come complete their job…if you missed why, read this post…. This week, I am putting it all back together the way it ought to be. Why? Not only because it is driving me crazy…but because, according to Murphy’s Law, as soon as I do that, Mr Sandless should become magically available and be able to come out the very next day to actually finish out the closet the way they were supposed to that very first time. This will also help me clear out N’s room, since we put most of our closet stuff in his room/in his closet to get it all out of the way.
I must work more on my knitting instructor’s program…I have three swatches done…and I think one of those swatches needs to be redone…who knew ribbing would be so contrary? My goal is to have the first four modules done by the end of the week…knock on wood. As I continue to read forward into things, I am actually worrying about things. Now, I am able to do colorwork (thanks to EZ’s Knitting Workshop)…I can work cables, slowly and without the intervention and/or assistance of small children—or dogs of any size)…but we’re talking intarsia, and all sorts of other really scary things that have been on my ‘going to learn one day’ list for …a long long time…I’m not going to let my own intimidation and fear get to me—I am just going to plow on through.
Note to self: if I don’t sign up for any of the classes (yet), I do at least need to join the Knitting Guild of America…because at some point I will be taking some of the classes…not to mention, now that I am doing more reading and research, I sort of wish I had gone w them first…but this is the course I chose to do first and it is the one I am sticking with, until the end…when all else fails with me, seek more education until confidence is gain and/or restored…
Work on unpacking all the kitchen stuff…yes, basically the first stuff that was moved over here is, not by any means the last stuff, but it’s still sitting downstairs, like most everything else…I needed to find our popcorn popper this week-end, for my darling boy {what? Gene Simmon’s mom own that phrase or something? ;) }…and there was no way I could find it in all the mess downstairs…I did try. There are many boxes to go through yet…not just kitchen related…
We did end up buying this terrific magazine while we were at Sam’s Club this week-end though. The Family Handyman. I originally picked it up for the landscaping ideas…since I have several different ideas on-going at the moment…but this issue alone had so many GOOD ideas for, say, organizing our basement, and creating tiny little nooks of cabinet space in over-looked places…before I hit page twenty it had already proven itself more than worthy of the initial investment. Heck, this magazine ended up being better than the past 5-6 books on build your own wooden projects books we’ve gotten from the library…and it was one of those fluky little purchases I make, grab me and read me, you’ll like it—this time we really did. Now all we have to do is start implementing these ideas and things are going to be great…
One more thing. I didn't do a full-moon dreamboard this week-end. I am in the middle of yet a very large, very disconcerting shift...but I have been having some ideas for a dreamboard--I just feel the need to do something ...bigger...than just a monthly dreamboard...so, add this to the list too.
These are my goals for the week…let’s see if I can achieve them.
