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Sure, I'll admit it, I don't have a lot of recent experience with "free time". The last time I had a three day weekend completely free, without travel or hosting a major event was...um....oh, maybe...nah. Okay, I have no idea. I'm sure it happened sometime in the last decade. Maybe.
It wasn't easy. We had to actively fight off several lovely invitations. But I was determined to be strong. The only invites I would accept would be non-driving, mellow, neighbor invites. Admittedly, in both cases, we managed to make those "into the wee hours accompanied by copious amounts of rum" events, but still, they adhered to the basic mission -- and that was to have the maximum time available to devote to house and yard. The Captain had a previous officiant committment so he managed to escape for a few hours each day for wedding rehearsal and the wedding itself.
So, the bedroom has been cleaned out -- several bags of trash, an entire bin of paper recycling, books all dusted, reshelved, furniture rearranged, since we've been clambering over stuff for near a year, as the Captain moved in before the ex's stuff completely left the house and well, as I, the Captain, the Ex and the Ex's girlfriend are all "people who have a hard time throwing stuff out", shoe-horn and pile were the operative words. I've managed to clear out bookshelves and drawers so less stuff can live on TOP of the furniture. Well, okay, so I've made room for the cats. Maybe they'll get the hell off the bed.
But there's walking around room in the bedroom, the basement is prepared to receive the Halloween props and equipment (so that we can start the reno on the room that it's been stored in) and the worker bees have been busy creating a new front and side entrance to the house itself.
( And I've begun reclaiming the yard )
It wasn't easy. We had to actively fight off several lovely invitations. But I was determined to be strong. The only invites I would accept would be non-driving, mellow, neighbor invites. Admittedly, in both cases, we managed to make those "into the wee hours accompanied by copious amounts of rum" events, but still, they adhered to the basic mission -- and that was to have the maximum time available to devote to house and yard. The Captain had a previous officiant committment so he managed to escape for a few hours each day for wedding rehearsal and the wedding itself.
So, the bedroom has been cleaned out -- several bags of trash, an entire bin of paper recycling, books all dusted, reshelved, furniture rearranged, since we've been clambering over stuff for near a year, as the Captain moved in before the ex's stuff completely left the house and well, as I, the Captain, the Ex and the Ex's girlfriend are all "people who have a hard time throwing stuff out", shoe-horn and pile were the operative words. I've managed to clear out bookshelves and drawers so less stuff can live on TOP of the furniture. Well, okay, so I've made room for the cats. Maybe they'll get the hell off the bed.
But there's walking around room in the bedroom, the basement is prepared to receive the Halloween props and equipment (so that we can start the reno on the room that it's been stored in) and the worker bees have been busy creating a new front and side entrance to the house itself.
( And I've begun reclaiming the yard )
