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I've had good intentions of posting all week. I just was too tired by the end of the day to do it!
Thursday started fine. I was canning applesauce, in-between reading and quilting. Then Meghan phones wanting to know when she wrote the GED. Well, you'd think that would be an easy thing for me to find...after all...I'm the super organized homeschool mom...right?! NOT! I spent over an hour looking for the binder with the test results and can't find it. I can't imagine where I put the kids test results. I'm more concerned about losing their SAT I and SAT II results to be honest.
I finally found the date of the GED on the transcript I'd done up, which was in one of the boxes packed to head east to Meghan. Good thing I noted on the outside of the box it had her diploma in it. Otherwise I'd have never thought to look there for anything that might turn up information on her GED!
Of course with all the looking around I forgot I was in the middle of canning. I'd put some jars on the stove to sterilize in a pot of water. Anyway, I walked right by the kitchen on upstairs to look for the test results...which led to me searching my files on the computer...read...totally lost track of time... And that led to quilting...
Pretty soon a funny smell was permeating the house. I was thinking it was the neighbor's as our smoke detector hadn't gone off. I couldn't think for the life of me what it was. So I followed it to the kitchen. Where I was greeted with really thick smoke, embers of a dishcloth that was under the glasses in the pan, blackened glass, a very hot pot. Not a pretty sight. I quickly turned the burner off and doused everything with baking soda. I opened all the windows and doors in the house, hauled out the fans and turned them on for about an hour, put some pumpkin spice in a pot of simmering water on the stove, and tried to make the house smell decent before Paul came home from work.
It didn't work. I didn't fool him for a minute. I'd put away the fans and dumped the pumpkin spice potpourri by the time he arrived. I'd also taken the rest of the mess to the trash. I was able to save the pot...for a wonder. The bottom just isn't flat anymore. Still...Paul came in and asked "What was it?" Thankfully he was good natured about it. I feel like such a dolt to not remember things. But that is happening more and more frequently. I'm starting to get nervous about turning on the stove and appliances for fear I'll forget about them and burn the place down! I'm having difficulty staying focused and just simply remembering things...and I certainly don't multi-task well.
I didn't feel comfortable cooking in the kitchen after all this (call me frazzled and upset). So we headed out to dinner to a local restaurant we've been wanting to try for some time. Discovered they have entertainment Tuesday and Thursday nights. We might make an effort to get there more often. However, they are not cheap. Dinner for two without appetizers or dessert was $62CAD. We had a salad to share, an entree each, and a glass of wine each. We walked to and from the restaurant, and actually extended the walk home.
Handwork
That was Thursday. Friday I went to the gym. I also pieced the main body of Meghan's quilt top. I needed a different border and bought it today. It's in the wash right now. Hopefully I'll be able to sandwich the quilt and machine quilt it by next weekend.
Saturday I sewed the top to the sampler quit together...except the border...which I have yet to buy. Can't find anything suitable in the local Fabricland. Have another one to check. Now the top is finished it will be easier to audition fabrics. I am avoiding the expensive quilt store in town. Their staff don't seem to take the time of day to really look at a project and help you...unless you buy all your fabric from them.
I have cut some of the pieces for more blocks for the kimono quilt. I still have some to go, but it's not bad. I'll piece these at home rather than at the quilting group. I get more done at home these days.
I continue knitting on my cotton sweater. It's going to take forever!
Furniture Refinishing
We also started having good weather on Friday. It's supposed to last a week. Though every morning they revise it to say we're going to have thunderstorms. It is variable whether it happens or not. The weather forecasting is really abyssmal here. But I decided to take a chance. I put the primer coat on two bookcases on the back patio. Had to move them to the garage due to threatening rain (which never came), but they were started. I finished the finish coat on the main parts of the bookcases today, but I still need a second coat on the shelves.
Weight Loss
I've been resting a lot this week, trying to catch up on sleep and general energy levels. Swimming really was over the top for me. It hurt my back...which meant I took Advil...which reacted with the Risperdal and gave me very vivid dreams/nightmares...which meant I was up at least once in the middle of the night. And then Paul would wake me up in the morning when he left for work. I always wake up tired anyway. I haven't woken up rested in ten years now...sigh... The only thing I can do is go back to bed after Paul goes to work. I prefer to take a nap in the afternoon though. Paul just goes full steam ahead all day. I just don't have the energy. Anyway, with the stoppage of swimming lessons I haven't needed the Advil...and I've slept much better.
I've been very careful about sticking to the Serotonin Power Diet lately, and have been rewarded with a weight drop to 170.8 lbs. Not bad! I find I really have to watch those carbs. Yes, I need them mid-morning and mid-afternoon, but they need to be quality carbs and low calorie. I also have a serving of carb for breakfast and one for supper. That's four carbs a day...which is plenty for me.
Thursday started fine. I was canning applesauce, in-between reading and quilting. Then Meghan phones wanting to know when she wrote the GED. Well, you'd think that would be an easy thing for me to find...after all...I'm the super organized homeschool mom...right?! NOT! I spent over an hour looking for the binder with the test results and can't find it. I can't imagine where I put the kids test results. I'm more concerned about losing their SAT I and SAT II results to be honest.
I finally found the date of the GED on the transcript I'd done up, which was in one of the boxes packed to head east to Meghan. Good thing I noted on the outside of the box it had her diploma in it. Otherwise I'd have never thought to look there for anything that might turn up information on her GED!
Of course with all the looking around I forgot I was in the middle of canning. I'd put some jars on the stove to sterilize in a pot of water. Anyway, I walked right by the kitchen on upstairs to look for the test results...which led to me searching my files on the computer...read...totally lost track of time... And that led to quilting...
Pretty soon a funny smell was permeating the house. I was thinking it was the neighbor's as our smoke detector hadn't gone off. I couldn't think for the life of me what it was. So I followed it to the kitchen. Where I was greeted with really thick smoke, embers of a dishcloth that was under the glasses in the pan, blackened glass, a very hot pot. Not a pretty sight. I quickly turned the burner off and doused everything with baking soda. I opened all the windows and doors in the house, hauled out the fans and turned them on for about an hour, put some pumpkin spice in a pot of simmering water on the stove, and tried to make the house smell decent before Paul came home from work.
It didn't work. I didn't fool him for a minute. I'd put away the fans and dumped the pumpkin spice potpourri by the time he arrived. I'd also taken the rest of the mess to the trash. I was able to save the pot...for a wonder. The bottom just isn't flat anymore. Still...Paul came in and asked "What was it?" Thankfully he was good natured about it. I feel like such a dolt to not remember things. But that is happening more and more frequently. I'm starting to get nervous about turning on the stove and appliances for fear I'll forget about them and burn the place down! I'm having difficulty staying focused and just simply remembering things...and I certainly don't multi-task well.
I didn't feel comfortable cooking in the kitchen after all this (call me frazzled and upset). So we headed out to dinner to a local restaurant we've been wanting to try for some time. Discovered they have entertainment Tuesday and Thursday nights. We might make an effort to get there more often. However, they are not cheap. Dinner for two without appetizers or dessert was $62CAD. We had a salad to share, an entree each, and a glass of wine each. We walked to and from the restaurant, and actually extended the walk home.
Handwork
That was Thursday. Friday I went to the gym. I also pieced the main body of Meghan's quilt top. I needed a different border and bought it today. It's in the wash right now. Hopefully I'll be able to sandwich the quilt and machine quilt it by next weekend.
Saturday I sewed the top to the sampler quit together...except the border...which I have yet to buy. Can't find anything suitable in the local Fabricland. Have another one to check. Now the top is finished it will be easier to audition fabrics. I am avoiding the expensive quilt store in town. Their staff don't seem to take the time of day to really look at a project and help you...unless you buy all your fabric from them.
I have cut some of the pieces for more blocks for the kimono quilt. I still have some to go, but it's not bad. I'll piece these at home rather than at the quilting group. I get more done at home these days.
I continue knitting on my cotton sweater. It's going to take forever!
Furniture Refinishing
We also started having good weather on Friday. It's supposed to last a week. Though every morning they revise it to say we're going to have thunderstorms. It is variable whether it happens or not. The weather forecasting is really abyssmal here. But I decided to take a chance. I put the primer coat on two bookcases on the back patio. Had to move them to the garage due to threatening rain (which never came), but they were started. I finished the finish coat on the main parts of the bookcases today, but I still need a second coat on the shelves.
Weight Loss
I've been resting a lot this week, trying to catch up on sleep and general energy levels. Swimming really was over the top for me. It hurt my back...which meant I took Advil...which reacted with the Risperdal and gave me very vivid dreams/nightmares...which meant I was up at least once in the middle of the night. And then Paul would wake me up in the morning when he left for work. I always wake up tired anyway. I haven't woken up rested in ten years now...sigh... The only thing I can do is go back to bed after Paul goes to work. I prefer to take a nap in the afternoon though. Paul just goes full steam ahead all day. I just don't have the energy. Anyway, with the stoppage of swimming lessons I haven't needed the Advil...and I've slept much better.
I've been very careful about sticking to the Serotonin Power Diet lately, and have been rewarded with a weight drop to 170.8 lbs. Not bad! I find I really have to watch those carbs. Yes, I need them mid-morning and mid-afternoon, but they need to be quality carbs and low calorie. I also have a serving of carb for breakfast and one for supper. That's four carbs a day...which is plenty for me.
Is FINISHED! Yippee!!! Here is a 'during' and 'after' picture. Sorry I forgot to take a 'before' photo for you all. But if you imagine a dresser with four heavy coats of paint on it. The coats all chipped and one showing through another. In green, orange, black and off white. And nicked and dinged and purposely cut out parts of the dresser...with knobs, some metal, some gargantuan wooden ones painted on, some chipped...well...you kinda get the picture. It was really sad. When I stripped it and heard the story of it's beginning I wondered if it was worth saving at all!
It was originally made by my son-in-law Carl's grandfather. Grampa used to go in the garage and "throw things together" apparently. The top of the dresser used to be a shelf in a closet...and had a 1" diameter hole in the side for the closet rod to prove it! The rest of this is just cheap plywood. I probably spent far more on it than it's worth, BUT it serves a purpose in my home (housing my linens in my dining room), it came at the right price, and it helped the kids a bit by buying it.
It was originally made by my son-in-law Carl's grandfather. Grampa used to go in the garage and "throw things together" apparently. The top of the dresser used to be a shelf in a closet...and had a 1" diameter hole in the side for the closet rod to prove it! The rest of this is just cheap plywood. I probably spent far more on it than it's worth, BUT it serves a purpose in my home (housing my linens in my dining room), it came at the right price, and it helped the kids a bit by buying it.
Today Paul and I are going to look on-line at local secondhand sofas. We probably won't buy anything, but we're going to sit down and look together. We have a ton more errands to do today. He's off, so it's not a good day to tackle anything for me! But I am wanting to solve this sofa issue. Meghan badly wants one, and my back could use one. It's just Paul and I cannot agree on what we like. So this is a huge thing to tackle for us! Talk to you later.
Check-in: Well it finally came together. We don't have a sofa yet, but we're closer to determining what we want. We checked on-line and picked out two used ones to look at. We looked at one this afternoon and found out it had a broken leg. So we didn't buy that.
We decided to check out some furniture stores on the way home. We stopped at one and liked the furniture but it was expensive. Then we stopped at another one and loved the salesclerk. She was just a hoot! And so friendly. She was really good about helping us narrow down what we wanted. The problem is, we don't think they sell it. But it was great to have someone help like that. We did see one for $1000 that would work.
Because she was so good, we asked about beds and dining room tables. We need them too. She showed us a couple beds that were really good. One I could go for in a flash...on sale from $2800 to $999. And a headboard to go with it for $300. Their dining room tables were nothing to write home about though.
We have another secondhand sofa to check out tonight. Then we'll decide what to do.
I am so glad we came across that nice saleslady. It makes all the difference in the world to have someone to help you sort through things and determine your preferences. A good salesclerk is worth their weight in gold!
Second check-in! LOL: We checked out the second hide-a-bed sofa and chair and bought it. $200. Now all we need to do is get some strong backs and a truck to move it. That should keep us busy for the next while.
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