One of THOSE Weekends...

Last weekend, Meg moped around saying, "I don't want to be a student right now. I want to do fun stuff!" This weekend, I knew how she felt. There are/were a bazillion things to do...and I did work on them some...but I wasn't particularly productive at anything. I didn't do any "fun stuff" to speak of...but didn't get much else done, either. So what did I do?

I cleaned out the pantry, for one. Did some dishes...some laundry...cleaned both bathrooms...worked on finding kitchen surfaces. I even managed to vacuum some. Housework here tends to be overwhelming because we have too much crud packed into such a small space. Periodically, I go through and pitch stuff, evaluating whether we need it or not. Sometimes it is easier to get rid of something that is taking up space and buy a new one later, should we find that we needed it. Doesn't make sense, I know.

When we started the garage remodeling project last May--and thus, re-doing the other three bedrooms--I estimated that it would be a year before we had things in order. I've had to adjust that to later. At issue is the fact that my bedroom, when it was a garage, was the overflow valve for the rest of the house. Now, there is no overflow valve. For example, we have a broken kitchen chair. Where to put it until we can get it fixed?? The mini-barn is full. The worst room in the house, right now, is...you guessed it...my bedroom! I need a week of uninterrupted time to go through everything that has been dumped in there...to organize and pitch. Spring break?? Maybe. If the children are here, there may not be that opportunity.

An even bigger issue--at least for me--is that the cold weather persists. I want to be out cleaning off the patio, cleaning up the yard and the gutters, getting life back in order again...but it is not to be in the near future. It is cold and windy tonight. Tomorrow (my birthday) will have a high in the 20s. The next day, the high might get to 32, if we're lucky. I am SO done with winter!

My family is taking me out for dinner tomorrow...my choice. I haven't been to Red Lobster for a lot of years, so we are going there. Cheddar Bay biscuits, crab legs, etc. Yum!