It has finally happened, after seven years, both of my children are off to in person learning at the local public school and I am left at home alone in peace with six uninterrupted hours to get stuff (and my paid day job work done.) However, seeing as i am self employed I am opting to use some of this new found freedom to knock a fairly hefty number of odd jobs around the house off of my honey do list. Last week the progress was slow going but it involved a lot of deep cleaning of the main floor of our bungalow home. Sweep, vacuum and mop the floors, wash the inside/outside of the fridge (yuck!), do the same to the stove, dishwasher and microwave. Wash the cabinets, clean out all the left over and accumulated junk from all of the random drawers. Clean off tables, and art stations and bedrooms and the main bathroom needed a total hose down. Gosh, and golly gee, that was a lot of washing and sanitizing. Glad the bulk of it is done, and now I can just maintain it (I hope).
But today, today was the start to the bigger items on my list, namely painting. Sanding, priming and painting the fireplace in the exact same white as it was when first put together. Looks good, but it also looks like nothing really happened. Which sort of sucks. Next step is to paint our back hallway and staircase to the basement. That looks like it’ll need at least three coats of paint, and has some really nasty looking tricky spots. I might make that stretch over two days, I’m not sure yet. Once those two jobs get done I’ll head outside to power washing and sanding our back deck, and then adding a weather sealer (colourless of course, going oh naturelle!) I’d love to get that done this week too. Then all that is left is to wash and paint the garage door, and my biggest jobs will be completed. I can then turn my attention to the basement, where I’d like to finish the trim in our second bathroom, and generally tidy up the basement.
Something I have been meaning to do and have felt great relief getting it done, is purging years worth of crap out of the house. Our home feels bigger, less claustrophobic. Smells a hell of a lot better as well. As we turn towards autumn I’d like to wash all of the windows and winter coats in preparation for that drastic shift to grey rainy November.
Truth be told I’d like to get the bulk of this work done soon, in case my eldest wants to build a Halloween costume from scratch and we can turn our full attention to that in early October. Without feeling like I am neglecting household projects and deep cleaning for the sake of candy, candy, candy, candy.
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