Life Reset Day 12

For some reason each week I have one day when sleep evades me until 4am!  That was last night, I wonder if it is always the same day?  Must track that and see what the fuss is!  Anyway, last night was this week's very late night (or early morning depending on how you look at it.)  When I finally go to sleep, I'm a log until 10ish.  I really do not like sleeping that late, even though I'm not a really early morning girl sleeping til 10 makes me feel like I didn't accomplish anything.

Also, last night we had another series of major thunderstorm roll through, It seemed to go on and on.  No tornados though, just thunder. lightening and rain.

Today, I had to return the suitcase I bought yesterday. I'm looking for a medium sized trunk style suitcase-harder than it seems-and the one I got was the same size as the really big ones I have. Since I have TWO big ones, one I got in Australia.  This one went back.  The big ones get heavy and are hard for me to manage.  I'm flying out to my brother's in Denver next week so a trunk style one would be nice but I will use the clam one (which I hate) and my backpack.  I'm not doing carryon luggage any longer-I have trouble lifting them into the overhead bins and then getting them down, even though someone is always there to help!  I had to carry one up many steps getting on and off planes in Australia, no fun.  You learn something with every trip you take!  Also, You learn to adapt when you get old (and I am old!)

I think perhaps my daily doings will be boring (or perhaps they already are ) but for some reason knowing I need to write one each day is easier than remembering occasionally. If you get bored let me know!

 

Life Reset Day 11

Shopping. Ugh.

I am not a big fan. 

I know I got in 10,000 steps. 

Lowe's- big place even if you don't walk all over.  Many paint swatch cards and some lettuce seeds.  I always plant early lettuce in a container and enjoy the yummy fresh green stuff until it gets hot.

Target-A big place.  A notebook, some file folders and some snacks.  Not the summer dresses I was hoping for.  What's the deal with all the ruffles? 

Michaels-Not such a big place.

T J Maxx- again not such a big place .

One other stop and then I went to have a supper/lunch at Red Lobster then home, exhausted.

Many, parking lots. 

 I can walk a few steps without the cane or walk with the assistance of a shopping cart. Every day it seems better but not enough to go it alone.  I'll get there!

Life Reset Day 10

 I woke early this morning-I am NOT a morning person! There were no rainbows because the sun had decided to hide behind clouds.  It is amazing how much that fact affects your mood and energy levels.  Or maybe Wednesday is just the day that I need to be a lump of uninspired  human.  I did manage the weekly chore of cleaning the bathroom, which fortunately was not very dirty.  I also cleared the table of the clutter that seems to build up in a few days--I'm blaming that on last weeks tax marathon on the mess.

Do not go into shock.

 I went down to the Studio and I actually turned on one of my sewing machines and sewed two patches (Canada) on my patch blanket.  Then I turned it off and came back upstairs.  Maybe it's the beginning of a streak?

Life Reset Day 9

Today, being Tuesday, was Kitchen day.  Here's where I started, what a mess!

It's small but it has a cook who really doesn't like to clean up after herself!

This is where I ended today!

I did good!

Look fast it won't last!

I should tell you the story behind the newly sheet rocked wall.

While I was gone last Spring my Bonus Son mentioned that there was a small leak in the basement.  (There were actually TWO leaks and I knew about them, Had spoken to a plumber about fixing them.  He wasn't terribly interested in fixing them.) After I got home and settled I called a different plumber. so the leak I was reminded of was very small and easy to fix.  The other one was not.  In order to find and fix the leak the three tall cabinets that were along that wall and the sheet rock had to go.  My youngest son came up to help me-there is no way I could manage those cabinets alone-especially when two of the three were so wet they practically dissolved.  There is a four inch plastic drain pipe in that wall, where it shouldn't have be, and when they added the vinyl siding on the outside they punched NINE nails into the pipe.  The nails rusted fell out of the holes and began leaking.  It was a mess!  Had water damage people and the horridly noisy machines here for a week.  The kitchen floor had to be taken out and there is still a little fix needed in the basement.  It has been a LONG project, mostly due to my hip pain.  The Nashville duo came up last month and finished the wall to the current state.

On Friday, I have many errands to run (hopefully, I can do them all!  First to Lowes for paint chips to attempt to match the rest of the wall, then to look at cabinets, drop off some donations   and maybe some shopping not related to the kitchen.

Progress is being made, at long last.

Leaving you with rainbows!

 

Life Reset Day 8

Another Rainbow morning! I won't be long until the sun will be so high in the sky that I  will sleep through the rainbows so I have to enjoy them now.

Today, I tried getting back into the schedule I have always kept.  Mondays are for changing the sheets on my bed and doing laundry, I still have a small basket of thing to be folded away but I'm calling it a win.  I spent most of the time clothes were actually being washed or dried in the studio.  At this point I have to finish some  ongoing studio projects before I can say I'm finished, they are in the way!   

Cleaning continues.  The kitchen and the great room are for tomorrow morning.  I need to get out and work in the gardens-the hostas will soon be covering up the weeds!  Wait, is that a bad thing?  More importantly I need to get my new little chain saw going at cleaning up all the tree limbs. 

It was a lovely day, windy but nice and enjoyed some time reading on my swing.  We have another round of storms coming in on Thursday and Friday so I am required to enjoy it when I can.   

Tomorrow comes even when we don't want it to!  Talk more then.

Life Reset Day 7

I almost forgot to  write this!

Another rainbow morning. 

It was a quiet day. First thing, after coffee and oatmeal, my Nashville family FaceTimed with me.  We do this most every Sunday morning and I really look forward to talking to them.  He begins a new job tomorrow and is quite excited.  She is a Kindergarten teacher and will be more excited then her students when summer vacation starts! Seriously, she loves teaching and is very good at it!  They laughed at my new toy (a cordless mini chain saw which is seriously cute!)  Then I made sweet pickles, not really from scratch but from whole dill pickles. They will certainly taste better than the Broccoli pickles.  Will have to try a different recipe when and if I make those again.  The sweet pickles are an old recipe, very easy.  They will be ready tomorrow.  I did some kitchen clean up and put in some serious time on the current jigsaw puzzle.  Didn't spend much time in the studio but it is beginning to look better.  Tomorrow is laundry day and I will be down there all morning.  I think I will be finishing up some projects as well as the general cleaning that's going on.

My life is a bit boring, but I really feel like I am getting back to myself.  Pain makes your brain fuzzy and you a bit grumpy!  Now, my brain is doing much better, I laugh easier and can take the set backs to my plans much better.  (That last part is especially good since plans rarely go as you hoped.)

 That's all for tonight.  I'm in need of  ZZZZzzzz's

Life Reset Day 6

All those little things you put off  which you are supposed to do routinely, like changing furnace filters, going to the dentist or changing the batteries in your smoke detectors, sooner or later come back around to annoy you!  That happened today about 8:30 in the morning when my smoke detectors began "chirping" about every 5 minutes.  I can't remember when I last changed the batteries, only that it has certainly been longer than two years!   Since they require  4 volt batteries I was off to Walmart before coffee.  Since I was already there I bought a few groceries.  Walking around Walmart  I think you could get in  a  few hundred steps!  I decided I didn't need the electric scooter so I was leaning on a shopping cart.  I was tired and a bit sore by the time I got home.  When I tried to change the batteries I discovered I just wasn't tall enough-I got one off but couldn't get it back on.  An SOS was sent out to my daughter for a TALL person (this is a family joke, whenever something is beyond the reach of my 5'3" I say,  " I need a Tall person") So, she added the task of saving me from the chirping of my smoke detectors to her son.  He was coming to cut my grass anyway.  He put the one back up but that didn't stop the chirping --my house has 5 smoke detectors--so we went looking for the chirping one.  In the end he changed out 2 more! I not live in glorious quiet!

While all the chirping was going on I went down to the studio for a couple of hours.  Hauled out 3 bags of trash!  Put more things away, began to see the tops of more tables, so good progress.

I wonder how many more small chores I've neglected in the past two years are going to enliven my life.