I don’t currently have the ability to type with the letter s. It won’t type on my keyboard. I’m going to type this and correct what I can via spell check and cutting and pasting the letter in question, but forgive me if I seem to be typing with a key gone. Because it is.
I haven’t posted in a few days, but I have been busy.
Wednesday, I came home and decided that I definitely was going to get some work done, so I made a list and worked my way through it. I got the guest bed fixed up with all the pillows and everything. I got the house tidied and bills paid and the checking account balanced. And I made some good progress on the filing cabinet situation. It’s still a mess, but it’s getting better.
Thursday, we had a game online with friends, starting at 7:00, so I got off work, grabbed dinner from a place in town, and got home in time to get set up for the game and that was my whole evening.
Friday, though. I decided to take the day off from work and get work done on the house — I had enough hours in at work and had enough done in order to not come in, so I wasn’t playing hookie, I swear. I ended up sleeping in later than expected, but I’m pretty sure that did me some good. And then I worked on putting all the contents from the bedroom closet back inside the closet. It still isn’t done, but I’m making progress there, too.
At least I can find things now. I need to figure out how I want to organize the bedding, mostly. And then there are two boxes of things that I need to sort through to figure out what is worth keeping and what in’t. But I haven’t felt like taking the time for that yet, so they’re just sitting in there on the floor.
So much of where I’m at with this place right now is just being able to find the things I want when I want them. Today, I was looking for envelopes. I still don’t know where I put the dang box of them, but I found one so I was able to do what I was trying to do. But it is driving me absolutely bonkers that I can’t find the things that I know I have SOMEWHERE in this mess. So, like with the bedroom closet, I know it’s still a mess. But I can tell you that the blue box in that picture above, has stuff for the bathroom that I wasn’t sure yet what to do with. Now that I’m thinking about it, I actually found the perfect place for the things in that box in another box of stuff in another closet. But the point is, I know what’s in that box.
The blue box in the garage, by the way? Gardening stuff — gloves, a couple small pots, things that I’d need if I have something that’s growing in dirt.
Anyway, I’m working on a solution for the mountain of guest towels that we have (and we need to sort through and decide if we’re keeping ALL of them) and I’ve got to go back and work on the bedding and the boxes of my random stuff that needs to get sorted. But this closet is doing better.
My Friday also had a massage and a chiropractor appointment and some grocery shopping and laundry. And I feel like there was something else in there, but I can’t remember it right now.
Today, I got up and worked on the storage closet in the sun room.
This is the stuff that I wanted to put in there but already couldn’t fit inside the door.
This is what it looked like inside the closet. This is holding all the things that we don’t use on a regular basis — like Christmas decorations and clothes that I want to wear again and don’t right now and lots and lots of video game systems and games and things.
So I took everything out of the closet first. Eventually we’re going to put in shelving in here, I hope. Because it’s really hard to get to stuff in here without shelving.
That is a lot of stuff, really. It’s kind of impressive, in it’s own way. I think about my friend Becky, who lives in a camper trailer about the size of my sun room and wonder how she manages to live with so few things. And that I really should learn how to live with less things.
And then I look at my stuff and go “Oh! I like that thing. Let’s keep that.”
Anyway, the purple and green totes sitting outside of the closet were new ones that I got from Craigslist in order to consolidate some of the decorations and stuff. And I was able to do that. I had two paper boxes for Halloween decoration that I got into one tote and several small boxes of Christmas decoration that I got into two totes. Not everything fit, so I still have a few loose boxes for Christmas stuff, but it’s much better than it was.
Not that it looks that much better, though. It still looks like an enormous mess. But the pile of white boxes up at the front are going up on eBay when Justin gets back. And behind that, most of the stuff on the right-hand half of the closet are boxes of gaming systems and video games and things that I need Justin to tell me if they’re going to get set up somewhere or if they’re staying in storage.
The left-hand side is stacked up 5 totes high, with some other stuff on the top so it’s all the way up to the ceiling.
I had to put shims underneath the inside-edges of the totes because they all started to list toward the right, but they seem to be doing okay now. And I know what’s in all those boxes and I’m good with them. And even though it’s messy looking, it’ll still be easier to get the decorations out than they were last year, when they were up in the attic.
And, most importantly, I could close the door and there wasn’t a bunch of stuff sitting out in the sun room.
That looks like a much more inviting place to sit and read a book. Now, if only all the bookshelves were up and the books weren’t sitting under a shower curtain on the other side of the sun room.
But there they sit. With the packing paper I need to return to Raymonde at work and my yoga stuff propped up beside it and the fountain I really need to get polished up and running again. More work to do on yet another day.
These are all the boxes I was able to take out from that closet and get the contents either removed to somewhere else or put into totes instead of boxes. I kept looking at the closet and going “Did I actually accomplish ANYTHING here?” And looking at the boxes reminded me that, yes, I have actually at least done SOMETHING. I got more cardboard OUT OF THE HOUSE.
That was my main project of the day. I had to get the sun room tidied up because people are coming over tomorrow and those boxes couldn’t be sitting there when they arrived. And there was other tidying to do and vacuuming and laundry and stuff. Our mop broke, so I had to go pick up a new one this evening. Tomorrow I’ll mop and wipe down surfaces and get all ready for the party. And most of the house looks decent. The office — not so much. I’ll just close that door and hope people ignore it. 🙂 But most of the house looks good. I’ll try to get more pictures of the cleaned up place up here soon.
For now it’s late, and it’s been a long day, so I’m heading to bed.