Back to Reality

First of all I think I have finally kicked this cold thingy that has plagued me for the last three weeks or more. The sore throat is gone, the sore eyes are gone, the stuffy congested stuff is gone. My throat is still feeling like its coated with something nasty, nothing a bottle brush wouldn't fix if I could get in there and start scrubbing. I am putting my faith in the fact the its almost gone and I am feeling very much better. Still horribly tired but I am always tired so I don't know if this fatigue is normal or part of the cold. Whatever, I will take it, I had gotten very sick and tired of being sick and tired. I drank loads of this

Lemon juice, vinegar, honey and a pinch of cinnamon in hot water. It really helped the soar throat. Found the recipe on Pinterest and I was glad that I did.

So my first few days home I did not do much, knit, napped, watched tv. Just generally was lazy. I went out Friday morning for groceries (love that Click and Collect) then I went out again on Friday night for supper and I did not poke my nose out of the house again until Tuesday morning. Too FREAKIN cold to be out and about. _51 with the windchill kept me in the house.

I decided to get at some of the jobs I have piled up but have not tackled yet. To get started I spent 6 hours on Sunday mending a crocheted table cloth for a lady at work.

It had tons of holes and loose threads.

I turned them into this

I fixed as much as I could see but I am sure I missed some spots. It was a really big job but I am glad its done. I am not sure if she was or not. She seemed a little surprised that I thought she should pay me for doing it. She never really said for sure one way or the other but I just got that feeling. I did not ask her to pay me anywhere near what someone else may have and yet I felt like it was considered too much. Oh well she does not have to ask me again.

I also started to knit up some of my dish cloth yarn scraps into cleaning rags.

I will get four of them by the time I am done. Next I need to start a quilt for a friend. She asked me to make one for her daughter's social as an auction item. I will get going on that tomorrow. She needs it for February so tomorrow is a good start time.

Speaking of starting things, I have started a challenge with KitKat to get some things purged out of the house. Her family is doing it so I am tagging along. What ever the date is,  that is the number of things you get rid of for that day. For example, on Jan 1st you get rid of one thing, on the 2nd its two thing and so on until the last day when you get rid of 31 things. I had my doubts when I started but since there are no rules as to what the things are, I think I can do this. I have a donation box in the kitchen and there is the recycle bin and the garbage.

I am on track so far and my goal is to get some of the boxes in the sewing room emptied and then move some of the boxes that are sitting about on the floor into cupboards and make some room in here. You would think that someone with mobility issues would not live in an obstacle course but I do seem to insist on it. I have so much paper and crap in this room I could probably do this purge all year. Another thing I want to purge out is my recipe books. For someone who doesn't and can't cook I have a lot of cook books. A lot I will never use, they need to thinned out.

I emptied some plastic shoe boxes today of tons of crappy little stuff, threw out most and put the rest where it belongs. Now I am taking a page out of The Banker's book. I put my cordless drill in one box with all the bits. the heavy duty staplers and staples in another box. My cameras in another. Nails in another. They all have places to belong to now and all the stuff is in one place. My brand new Flexor screw driver got another box. Now I know where everything will be when I need it.

I can see improvement in the craft room but not another living soul would be able to see it but me. There is a very long way to go yet. I found my accordion file case that I thought I had thrown out. Now I can sort my scrapbooking stickers and get them organized. Tiny steps but steps in the right direction.

I started to take down the Christmas decorations today but I did not get too far. I got one tree done and  will do the other before I head to bed. Once again I need to go into the basement, bring some containers up, fill them then take them back down. I find it hard going up and down the basement steps but its not impossible and its just something I need to do. Correction, I need to stop whining about it and just do it.

I got all the Christmas stuff home from the office which I was sure would take me forever. I used my big Ikea bag and it only took a couple of days. The office looks so bare now all the decorations have gone.

So its back to reality, the holiday season has come and gone. The Banker and Sweet Baboo will be back next weekend. I will be happy to have her back home. I have a quilt to make, more dishcloths to knit and purging to attend to. I have a budget to tighten and bad habits to break. It will be interesting to see what actually gets done.

Wish me luck!!

Happy New Year to one and all!!

Toodles,
Linda