7 posts tagged “household”
It's been a while. I had a great time at home and aside from a six hour weather delay at Charles de Gaulle which really threw me off, I can't complain about the trip back. The Air France staff on my flight from CDG to Geneva were absolutely lovely and even all the passengers (except for some of the children) were in relatively good humor.
I hit Ikea with G yesterday. That and the Super Coop were a bit of a letdown. I found almost everything I was looking for, but not before Ikea nearly got a black curtain rod shoved somewhere. Apparently, they have discontinued their single curtain rods, so you can now only buy them as a set complete with finials. I don't want finials. I only wanted just one more curtain rod because I am switching out the single rod brackets in my room for double. I have been doing my best to get over the "buy it when you see it" idea, but it turns out at Ikea, that if you don't buy it right when you see it, it will probably be discontinued.
On the other hand, I did pick up a "buy one get one free" selection of a really pretty bedside table lamp. I ended up keeping the small reading lamps I'd put on the frame of the bed, but the new lamps look really, really lovely. I also finally got a real overhead light for the spare room and I am currently sitting on a nice new Poang to match the one I got earlier this Fall. My feet are resting on the matching Poang hassock and I am very comfy, though not particularly productive.
Maria Tatar will be the bane of my existence. I have just ordered another copy of "The Classic Fairytales" because I can't find the one that I ordered in November. And that particular experience was my second attempt at acquiring the book. People at amazon.uk are living large, thanks to my idiocy.
On the upside, I have just booked my trip to Morocco. I have my flight and will be staying at the villa at Surf Maroc. I can't wait! Now I just have to start working on my pop-ups again so that I don't spend the week in sore muscle hell. I feel like I've gotten quite a bit done, but aside from changing light bulbs I can't come up with anything. Oh, I am using my new wireless keyboard and mouse and that is wow, very comfortable. So glad that I made the switch. It cleans up the mantel a bit (I'm trying to ignore the tea mug and books and other stuff) and in general makes life easier. I'm still working on how to make the characters on the screen bigger so that I can actually see what I'm typing from my chair.
I should probably get dressed for the day. I am buying new pillows. I hope. Fourth times the charm?
Stuff. Lots of stuff. Here's some of the stuff I've made.
The notice board above has actually been in the works for a couple of years (I am a very slow thinker!) and I finally got around to it a month ago. Problem being that in the year and a half between buying the ribbon and buttons for the accents, I had lost a button. I was down to five. And, I had brown ribbon and cream ribbon, but not enough of either was left to do the whole project in one or the other. Not to worry. I had brown and cream polymer clay, so I made the little pieces to cover up the intersection. They're hard to see in the picture, but they're just blocks of stripes. They're not uniform at all. Some are wider, some are thicker, but I like how it turned out.
I also made curtain tiebacks for my bedroom out of beads and I need to do some for the spare room. Eventually. And maybe there will be a photo or two, but given my current track record, I wouldn't suggest holding your breath.
Just one more week of swimming. I can do this. I can make it. There were only two of us today as one of our number was ill. A lot of the kids have stopped going because it's cold and other stuff, so it wasn't that big a deal to have only two of us. Hopefully, at some point, *I* will get back in the pool. Every time I pull on my swimsuit, I think argh, must start swimming again. The showers at the pool are excellent, so that's just added incentive. My shower this morning was less than consistent in temperature.
I went out to Coop at lunchtime for the second time this week. I'm just so tired in the evening that the idea of making supper or packing a lunch just makes me want to lie down. But, the dishes are done. And really that's what matters right now. The dishes are done. I need to get the last batch put away, and there are some glasses from last night and a bowl from this evening, but otherwise, every item in the kitchen is clean. I think I will go lie down.
and we took a train ride, my mom would tell me stories. One of them had the little girl get bit by a tsetse fly. That's about how I feel right about now. I know I was stupid and stayed up way too late last night, but this is getting ridiculous. I haven't felt well-rested in ages. I'm having friends over tomorrow evening and really need to tidy up (those pesky dishes are still waiting for me), but I'm worried that I'll come home tonight and pull the same stupid shit as last night.
I got a load of laundry done last night, though. Yay, me. I waited too long to put in another one, but hopefully, I can get a couple done tonight. I need socks. Still.
Must. Do. Dishes. One friend suggested that since I am donating the white dishes anyway that I just trash them. Skip the washing and just throw them away. Unfortunately, the white dishes are the least of the dish-washing troubles and I just can't throw away perfectly good plates. All right, today will be a more productive day than yesterday. And I have salsa tonight, so I really need to get stuff done before I go dancing. Or maybe I'll just take a nap.
it's ten o'clock already. I have gotten nothing done. I am supposed to have cleaned the hallway, started some laundry, move the tv/dvd player, changed the litter pan and done other stuff. I have not started the pie for tomorrow, I have not washed dishes. Instead, I think I am just going to go to bed and get up early!
A body at rest will stay at rest. According to wikipedia, "the nature of inertia is often masked by the effects of friction... and gravity..." Not an exact quote and I must say that for not being able to trust completely the reliability of wikipedia, the science articles tend to be written well-above my head. I need a science encyclopedia for dummies.
It's true that, that inertia in a person's life is also masked by circumstances. I truly would probably never get out of bed, except there are external forces such as needing the paycheck my job provides to have continued shelter and sustenance. The more time I spend in front of the screen (whether tv or computer), the harder it becomes to move away from it. I can sit and watch a torrent download for chunks of time. I would be better of taking a nap (more brain activity while sleeping than watching tv). I actually did do some laundry yesterday and I spent 15 minutes cleaning up the floor of my room. Another two doses of 15 minutes and that will probably do the trick, but can I do it? No. And I still need to vacuum, still need to wash dishes.
The worst part is that none of these things takes a lot of time. Dishes, if I stick them in hot soapy water to soak (because I've now left them on the counter for more than a day) would take 20 minutes to get them all washed. 30 minutes and the floor of my bedroom would be cleared. Laundry takes less than ten minutes to sort and toss a load in. As my dad says, "It's not like you take it to a river and beat it on a rock". Vacuuming the entire apartment takes less than 20 minutes. I know this. And yet, I have a hard time overcoming the inertia.
Exercise comes under this umbrella as well. I have videos that have workouts that are under 25 minutes and yet, I can't seem to get it together to do them. I want to get back in the pool and yet, I haven't made it, yet. I'm supposed to be writing an essay for graduate school; I have a draft I haven't looked at in a week. It's lunchtime here and I brought lunch, but I can't even motivate myself to go downstairs to put it together.
I did start clearing my desk and the tops of the shelves in here, though. I think that if I stay late tonight, I will treat myself to a pizza on the way home. Maybe. I actually need to stop and get milk. But, I seriously need to make some headway on the library.
My mom is not a health nut, but sometimes she eats stuff that health nuts eat. For a while, she was drinking smoothies every morning. Smoothies made with soy milk, wheat germ and other stuff. In fact, I still have wheat germ in my pantry from the last time she visited.
I've started drinking smoothies for breakfast, but mine are far more normal and basic. Frozen fruit (apricots right now that are not the peaches I thought they were when I picked up the bag. That was a sad day in my house), apple juice and a little water. After a week of chewing my smoothies, (does anyone have an alternate word for it, I hate the word smoothie...) I figured I needed to blend them for longer, much longer. I also switched from milk to apple juice which works well for the apricots, but I'm not so sure for the berries that will follow when this bag of apricots is finished.
I'm horrible at getting dishes done. I hold up my hand and freely admit that I am not a domestic goddess; it took me a long time to admit that, but there you go. The blender, though, I have rinsed every morning after use and then actually washed it every evening. For some reason, this I am able to do. Unlike the couscous encrusted measuring cup which I am trying to ignore, but know that I will have to tackle tonight.
With these blended, fruity drinks, I have managed a breakfast every morning beyond the apple or cranberry juice cut with water and spoonful of peanut butter/handful of nuts that has often passed for breakfast chez moi. But, having gone through various diet trends, I worry about the sugar spike. Everyone (not everyone, but the everyone who is a fan of low carb/no carb/glycemic index/etc...) talks about that sugar spike in the morning from the fruit or fruit juice as being really, really bad for you. I had a blood panel done in October. The results came back as normal for everything, so it's not as though I am pre-diabetic (I have a friend who says there is no such thing as *pre*-diabetic, either you are or aren't), so should i really worry about this sugar in the morning? It seems that I should probably worry more about the ice cream/whip cream I had for afterschool snack and the massive bowl of whole wheat spaghetti, butter and fresh parmesan I called dinner at eight thirty last night. I really don't like eating that late. Is six ounces of fruit blended with apple juice and water enough of a breakfast? I'm guessing not. Maybe I'll have a spoonful of peanut butter on the side...
