Finished one of the two partially read books I had in my pile all ready. And I am now going to attempt to complete the second book before the year is through. My resin build has sat untouched for at least two months or more. I need to finish the arms, and primer all the parts and then begin to paint in earnest. Not going to happen this year. But, I did finish the basement tidy up and reorganization. Excepting the water softener, which I need a dolly, ratchet straps and a plan for where I am taking it. Like to the garage is step one, but to the dump or elsewhere as a final destination has yet to be determined. I took all of our broken electronics out to the garage. The change table is there too. I can’t work in the subzero temperatures so I might aswell store the crap out in the garage while the space isn’t in use. I bought storage racks to put in the laundry room, and got them to fit. I tidied up and put everything up on those racks more safely. I bought clear bins for our Christmas decorations, and swapped them out to get rid of the too tall opaque green ones I was using before. I got rid of clothes, old bags, boxes, general garbage and placed things up on the shelves and not on the floor. Still have access to the furnace, and the furnace filters, humidifier unit, and duct work. Better than it was, by far. What started with moving nine bags of childrens clothes cascaded into cleaning closets, thinning out my books, opening up shelf space for the kids things, reclaiming the floors, and sorting out & organizing the basement, as well as removing bulky items and broken technology from the basement. It is now a cleaner, more useable space. I’m not done yet, as I have some drawers left to empty of ten year old unused clothing of mine & my wife. We have dressers full of old untouched, unused clothes that should get donated to people in need. Let the clear-out/purge continue unfettered! That’s what I say. I’m on a roll.
Honestly I have sat and thought about all of these things for months and months. Feels good to start and finish a bunch of those tasks. I can feel the urge to stop and let good enough for now take over, but I’d really like to empty some drawers, get the clothes off to a drobo box for textiles and THEN call it a day. In reality it’s not really done until the junk I. Oved to the garage goes to its final testing place, but I am willing to overlook that right now in favour of “inside the house” being better than it was.
I went into a Walmart and a mall this close to Christmas and I gotta say, I see a whole lot of folks still Christmas gift shopping. Doesn’t this feel a bit late to you? I do mine in October-ish. I was later this year due to our vacation in mid November. But I’d had the kids lists on my phone for months. It’s handy that whenever they saw a commercial for something they liked they would shout about it, so I just made notes about it during the summer & fall. My wife was kind enough to tell me what she wanted this year as well. I had ordered some stuff before we went away, and filled in the gaps once we returned from the US.
Two days until Christmas. Hope you are all well fed, and looked after. Ciao Bella.
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