The end is in sight. I have gotten to the minutia of the cleaning spree most of the check list is gone. Right now the devil is in the details. My body has decided that I have over done it and I am taking involuntary afternoon naps. I hope to finish tomorrow morning. If I get up early I will start with the fridge and laundry. I have decided to take a few days off doing laundry. I guarantee that it will wait for me.
Well I think it’s time to call it a day.
I know that I have been over doing it when I reach my weekly exercise goal by Tuesday by 3:30 pm. My goal is 30 minutes of exercise a day over 7 days. That is quite reasonable. 155 minutes in 2 1/2 days not so much. I did 95 of those minutes today, so far. I still have 2 rooms to put back together. No wonder I am exhausted. Off to mop another floor. Ok, I gave up and left the steam mopping to John. I think I will rest for a bit and then put things back together again. I am glad that all of my fiber storage drawers are on wheels. Rolling, rolling, keep those drawers rolling.
After a brief rest I put 2 rooms back together. We only need to add a table and chair to make a temporary office space. The space will have the pantry so course that means it has its own MK Snack area, minus the drinks. I landed up with a total of 138 minutes of cleaning time, for the day. Ok, it’s 2 hours and 18 minutes. Is it any wonder that I was too tired to do much knitting tonight?
I have also crossed out a few of tomorrow’s chores, because being the over achiever that I am today the work is done. I really think it would be wonderful if my body let me sleep tonight. Wish me luck.
This is what craft room number one aka the guest room looks like when all the crafts are finely put away. The room is dusted and vacuumed. John did the dusting and vacuuming. This is usually the only time you can see all the carpet
On the left side of the room is the Murphy Bed. It folds down to a queen size bed. A nice cozy spot to hang out in.
The sewing tables have been folded up. The sewing machine put away. I am leaving John in charge of vacuuming and dusting. I just have to find a home for some blankets. They are washed and bagged. They are too small for the V.A. , Project Linus does not take cotton blankets. So I will call a friend tomorrow.
I just need to wrap a few things , put some baskets away, fold up one table, sweep and mop the floor’s, clean the bathrooms along with my usual chores and we will be ready for company. I am exhausted just thinking about it.
The best part of this companies coming is that I tossed a lot of things rather than just put them in boxes and baskets for later. I hope that this puts me ahead of the curve.
Sometimes the perils in pattern writing is the the letters and numbers dance around the page like a Conga line dances through a room. My current pattern fits this to an exact T as in T Square. Today I tried to figure out if I hit that magic sweet spot of pattern section repeats. I simply could not figure it out. So I will keep knitting and working the pattern out row by row. I just have to have things add up to my magic number and maintain the angles, it’s really not that hard until I can no longer walk, talk and knit at the same time. This sitting down to write patterns down is sometimes very hard work.
If I take this pattern row by row it is a very delightful knit. Just enough change from row to row to keep the pattern interesting. My student whom I am writing it for, loves the pattern so far. She is on section 2 around row 8. She likes the fact that after so few rows knit and purled stitches a pattern is visible. That makes me so happy. I am only 2 full sections ahead of her so I have to find more time to finish this.
In other news the bathroom is now painted. I just have to pull the tape off the grab bar. Give it a few days to dry. This is where a second shower is very helpful. Then put everything back where it belongs. Also just a few projects to go before craft room 1 is ready to become the guest room. My new storage containers for craft room 2 are somewhere in Phoenix. Hopefully they will arrive tomorrow, they were supposed to be here today, alas this is the season of shipping hiccups.
I also came up with an innovative way to put my shoes away. I slip on one pair and walk to my closet Take the shoes off and put them away. I repeated this process until all my shoes were put away while bring laundry from the clothes line to the closet’s. I got 2 chores done at once and added steps to boot.
I am hoping despite be sore all over, all day that I will sleep tonight. Wish me luck.
Here I sit at 2 a.m. waiting for the aspirin to kick in. All because I. choose not to wear my tendon isolation band while knitting last night. As you know I have chronic tendonitis do to arthritis. It just seems to jump all around my body. Currently I have knitting elbow also know as tennis elbow. Since I do not play tennis anymore, I call it knitting elbow.
My arm was feeling good all day. So I thought that I was lucky That it went away very quickly. Yeah, I am not that lucky. So here I sit at 2 a.m. waiting for the aspirin to kick in. I am wide awake.Pain has away of doing that to me. So I might just do some chores while I wait. Since I did not get many things done yesterday. I was having a bad body day except for my elbow. Then again I can feel the aspirin starting to kick in, so I just might be lucky enough to go back to sleep. So maybe I will just get a jump on the day and start a load of. By the way, I am so predictable that the prediction program on my blog had picked out I was going to start a load of laundry before I even had it typed in. A very good algorithm, way to go programmers.
