Ok so far this week I have been tackling jobs that have been left ignored far too long. The spare bedrooms have been put back in order. The poor green room got all rearranged when I decorated my bedroom. Yes I am aware that that was nearly a year ago,,,,,,,shut up. I moved the furniture back onto place and put some things away. It was good to get it done. The red room got the bedding all washed and was given a good tidy and is ready should company show up. The storage containers that have been in the tub for the longest time have been moved and will be purged of the eleventy million magazines I was saving for some unknown reason. Normally these containers live under my bed but once they are purged and refilled with more important stuff, they are going into my closet.
The upstairs floors have been given a bath and so have the stairs. The Banker fixed the crack in the stairwell wall. She did a a fantastic job. I have purged my sewing patterns. The container went from looking like this:
So full I could not stuff them all into the container. It now looks like this:
Makes me so happy!!
I finished the house reno scrapbook and I never had to go to Michaels once. No that's not true I had to get adhesive, but I used a 50%off coupon. Other than that, I used all my supplies that I have on hand. This scrapbook did not get embellishments. Its just a record of the changes I have made to the house in the first 10 years that I have been here. I almost didn't bother doing it but since I had a lot of pictures already printed I decided to go for it. The album I put the pictures in was passed onto me by a friend. I am happy I made the choice to do it. You forget how the place looked at the start.
So basically my vacation has been housework focused. I did finally get an appointment for the car. I will do the repairs in stages. The transmission first then the brakes. I am so grateful to be finally getting this taken care of. I have left it go for far too long.
I am not sure what has been up with me for the last longest time but I don't like it. I am focused on getting myself out of this funk I have been in for far too long. Everyone has problems and things that get them down, I am no different. What is different is I cannot go on living this way. I have to just put on the big girl panties and deal.
To that end, the housework. Contrary to what it may look like I do not enjoy living in a mess. Clutter is fine, a mess is not. So I am dealing with that. Purge and clean, purge and clean, lather rinse repeat.I am continuing to work on the craft room. I am keeping up with keeping the paperwork taken care of and filed instead of piling up all over the place. The kitchen is next. The spice drawer and the cook books are first on the list.
The next on the list is budgeting. I need to tighten my belt and get back on track. Having no back up when something goes wrong is just not good. It gets you behind and once behind its pretty stinkin' hard to get back on track. First things I did was I reduced my cable down, even though my tv is super important to me, I don't need all the channels I had. I did not renew my magazine subscriptions this year. I only have two but its a luxury that I can give up for now. I am going to start paying more attention to coupons and sales. I have talked this talk before but I am starting to walk the walk. I am not giving up going out with friends. I can economize in other areas.
I am responsible for me, I need to start taking better care of me. So I am actually taking baby steps toward this goal, instead of just talking about it. Its a journey of a thousand miles but I have taken the first step or two. I need to get out from under this debt. I don't like it. I hate to no be able to look after my self.
Toodles
Linda
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