Or: How To Cram a Year’s Worth of Living Into Two Weeks
Or: Confessions of a Crazy Lady
Items completed:
- Teeth cleaned
- Saw eye doctor for annual checkup
- Refinanced mortgage
- Got 15 yard dumpster
- And filled it with stuff from the basement
- And the garage
- And the rest of the house
- Which means that I (and Jim):
- Cleaned the basement
- Cleaned the garage
- Cleaned all those forgettable corners in the rest of the house
- Gathered together lots of stuff from all those areas for our upcoming yard sale
- Painted 2 coats of Super White paint on door and window trim and baseboards in the bathroom and the foyer (and there’s a lot of trim in those two rooms)
- Touched up dark blue paint in bathroom
- Repainted foyer walls
- Worked really really hard (and not necessarily successfully) to get dried paint drops off of the new tile floor in those two rooms
- Stocked up on basic necessities for Hurricane Irene
- Survived Hurricane Irene without any damage
- Got chimney cleaned
- Got water meter replaced
- Got annual gas line safety checkup
- Got quote on repairs to our crumbling chimney
- Had Jim’s (small) birthday party
- Started construction of new front steps
- Read three books: Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos; One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street by Joanne Rocklin; and The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner
- Packed up two boxes of books to sell at the used bookstore
- Investigated opening an account at Alibris to sell three books that have some value
- Spent quality time with Ophy and Pippa
Items not yet completed:
- Relax
- Read more books
- Write more blog posts
All in all, I’d say it’s been a great vacation. And, there are still five days left! Plenty of time to accomplish more…