My list of things to do for the Summer and some from Spring were listed, and I have actually managed to get a lot of the list completed, and even some a few things that weren't on the list <g>. Though life is still a little sketchy in some ways since Roger passed to Heaven, I am doing better and managing to get back to living in some ways. It's taken more time than I imagined it would take, but at the same time, I can see the progress, and am getting to feel like I want to do things, rather than I am making myself do things. This week I will be finishing some projects in the yard before Rosh Hashanah, my way of adding an exclamation mark to the year! I plan to paint a few walls as well, and see if I can't add some new life to the accent walls in the house in my bathroom, guest room, hall and dining room. I've changed out some lights in the kitchen over the stove that look like they are 'angel feathers' on a globe. Very pretty, kind of neutral colors, but nice for the space. Previously I had red lights there, a sort of longer tube type. I like the end result <g>. Maybe I'll take a picture and post it here this week.
I've cleaned files, gone through drawers and rearranged things, boxed up things that needed to be moved out to the garage, and I still have some work to do in the kitchen, but that will go on my 'new year's list' of things to do.
Ending a year is good -- looking back to see your progress, and I have some, so that is nice -- and rewarding in some ways. Having had to work through loss, grief, and the loneliness, confusion, etc., that goes with losing someone you love -- well, the work seems twice as hard sometimes as it really is, and you are sometimes mechanical in the way you approach life because you feel so empty. Anyone who has been tehre doesn't need me to explain, if you haven't, thank God that you haven't!! Seriously!
Some things I have completed:
- Stuccoing the walls outside (a new experience for me)
- Replacing the lights in the kitchen over the stove
- Adding new ballasts in the kitchen ceiling lights
- Cleaning out files, organizing office and rearranging furniture
- Creating space for books in my bedroom cabinet
- Moving things from drawers and closets to garage
- Fixing the fountain outside, adding new pump, repainting bowl
- Planted all sorts of flowers in pots and planters in front and back yard
- Trimmed front bushes
- Removed a dead holly bush, and two non producing crepe myrtles and replaced with new bushes.
- Trimmed down rose bushes, fertilized and treated systemically
- Sealed counter on outdoor barbecue
- Trimmed half of back yard bushes (will finish the rest this week I hope)
- Washed windows
- Plaster areas in front and back porch ceilings, and paint
- Remove trim (wood) on pillars and replace with new pieces, water seal and then paint
- Treat lawn for Fall and porch flower bed areas and courtyard
- Paint accent walls in bathroom, hall, guest room and dining room
- Clean file cabinets / organize study files /
- Give away some of your Christmas decorations -- unclutter the garage
- Clean garage / reorganize and mark containers
- Clean pantry -- make space for cookware / bake ware
- Add slide out units in lower cabinets in kitchen
- Seal tile in bathrooms and kitchen again
- Organize closets - shoes and purses -
- Put Green chili away for next year
- Buy Apples and put pies up for winter -- give a few away
- Organize your needlework -- start stitching again
- Take time to read -- take notes on what you're reading
- Plan a baking day with Bette -- teach her to bake bread
- Make more time for cooking -- and invite people to have dinner or lunch now and then
- Find a job!! oh boy!
- Plan projects that work with the frames you own, and get to work on them.
- Start working on Danette's tablecloth project too
- Create your work list and goals list for the new year -- stay on top of it
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