Good morning. I
wanted to let you know first off that we weren’t thinking of it being almost
New Year’s Day, but we have been thinking the last several days, we would like
to start writing again. Because where we
are, we don’t always know if we can follow something along, but we should do
something, because the lack of writing seems to be putting a void in our
life. We’ll continue our old blog I
think, so if you’re reading this we’re over at “Ann’s Multiple World of
Personality (AMWP).” Well, maybe … we
went over there and then from a link we went back to a newer project that we’d
started working on. That spot is at
“Multiplework.” I remember it as a web
site and a blog, but that it hadn’t been developed beyond the first things and
I remember that we were working on “e-books” with our old AMWP blog.

One thing … my mother died the end of 2015. After that we must have not been trying or
was just way out in space somewhere. I
know we asked Dr. Marvin if there was something we could think to wrap up the
year … like where in the hell were we.
He thought a moment and then stated that my mother had died and then
there were all the things that came from that including the change in finances
and building processes. It seems the end
of 2015 was the projects in coloring. We
got back to those a bit – now the last part of 2016 in that there were like 5
Christmas coloring pages, and then the double set of pages that went to Dr.
Marvin IN a nice frame that was his present this year.
I’m not sure of what happened to the MW blog. I know it wasn’t as free flowing. We were working on structure, but it got the
best of us when our Internet started to bog down AND we were having problems
with the house production work. All that
will be explained in a bit. *sigh*
Basically, though there have been several renovation projects such as both
bathrooms, laundry room, kitchen (coming up to two times), and then siding and
lastly a new front porch. Yeah that is a
lot, isn’t it?
@10:03 am
Ok, we’re going to start this again. Several hours have passed. We got overwhelmed with the writing – could
understand sentence by sentence what we’d just written and we weren’t feeling
very good. So, we took some Dayquil, but
fell to sleep on the couch anyway. After
about 7:30 am, Rich got up and took the dog out again and fed him. I eventually got up to do a few things –
checked the cookies AND vacuumed a couple of rooms AND did all the
email/facebook things – a LOT of NYE messages to trade with others.
Pswhoo – just finished the vacuuming – we did three rooms
and a hall this morning yay! We still
have to sweep the living room, office area, dining area, kitchen and laundry
room. Maybe Rich will have mercy on us. We’ll try in a little bit, but it’s taking a
bad toll on the back. Just need to do it
in parts like we did yesterday. You
would think by now this wouldn’t be such a big deal, but alas, it still is L AND, we still need to save back space for
later in washing and buffing at least the kitchen – we did the whole thing a
week ago – and think the rest is just fine.
We’re most proud of Rich having taken some things out of the
pit hull of the back of my office – where the books are kept (the ones allowed
in the house). The suggestion part for
me was to look through and get rid of some of the papers. Pswhoo – invitation accepted! A lot of stuff went out except records of
2016 AND some personal NEED to save things for Rich and us. Yearly we file receipts in boxes for each
year, so those older containers, just had to be relocated. Again, just kept out 2016.
Hmm, apparently, we’re more home orientated now. The thoughts are much easier than they were
this morning, and already my back is feeling better. Dakota gave up on us … we’re the slowest
breakfast – cottage cheese eater in the world.
He WILL get up again though when he hears us scraping the bottom of the
plastic container. He’s faithful!
I don’t want to get real into things so that I can’t find my
way back to the kitchen floor. We might
take some more cold medicine when we take our 11 am medicine. Think we had the last stuff around 4-4:30
am. Ok, you – quit thinking of housework
… just need to focus on the very next task.
Better do the kitchen floor before the others, because we don’t want to
tie Rich up in the kitchen. He did appreciate
after he woke up that we’d put bread in the cookies to soften them. He made cookies last night and forgot to put
a top on them. Ok, enough fussing,
right?
One more thing … what is on Rich’s list. He must clean the guest bath – though we
vacuumed it, and then a BIG job – he must clean up his office. Pswhoo, it’s a mess! We had our own chore with the sewing room –
so it’s even AND the guest room was pretty much done except to put a few
pictures back on the wall and vacuum. He
still has garbage to take out – we got it out as far as the sunroom – I think
his curb garbage can is full. He’ll have
to find a place for it. I think he wants
to move the clothes rack down to the breezeway and to sweep the breezeway … ok,
with me. AND he must cook. Right now, he’s at his mother’s and to
Walmart for a SHORT list of things to get.
I told him he was leaving too much for today – we picked up the entire
house EXCEPT his office yesterday – he should have gotten that far. Eh – his workload. EXCEPT the part if things should start
falling over to me like the vacuuming.
Good-good – didn’t get to the floor, but we did move the
rack, and we cleared out the 4 containers of open pop and put it into the
fridge. We still have room for the diet
coke and water Rich will bring home.
Good, just called … he has it in the car already. I didn’t stay on long enough to ask his ETA …
thinking we’re going to let the floor go until he can do something with the
heavy rug. Reminds me, I should look at
Dakota’s food and water dishes. I might
have to clean them already. Drat one
more thing on OUR list. I’d like to get
that kitchen swept, but the rug in front of the sink is dirty so if I sweep
around it and it gets picked up my floor must be redone, AND if I try to move
it – put it out in the sunroom then Rich’s floor won’t be swept … I’ll let him
deal with it – he’s the one that wanted that messy dirt holder BLAH!
Maybe then we will sweep the other areas or work toward it
when our back rests some. I’ve got to
bring his computer bag back to his office too – don’t want it in our
kitchen. We must sweep there. I think we’re in charge of the fussed upon
things Hehe. There-there … poor Rich
isn’t going to get home – we just called to remind him we didn’t have enough
ice cubes. He said thank you for
thinking of it. Pswhoo – bit the bullet
there! He’s still in a good mood. Obviously, he isn’t home looking at his list
of stuff to do.
Shoot … we should rest longer. We barely got through the kitchen part and
the laundry/pantry room part – I guess that’s ok. Two small rooms, right? I guess we’re breaking things down the next
part will be to get through the dining room, and then the office. Maybe by then I’ll find that Rich vacuumed
the wood part of the living room – it seems so, no need to duplicate work. We’re getting there.
Doesn’t this feel like the old days where we used to talk
just to get through housework – sometimes with the 15-minute timer? That’s when we used to be able to do
15-minutes. We’re like at 6 minutes now. Rich and we have been (before direct holiday
time) walking on the treadmill. I’m at 6
minutes and he doubles our number. We’ll
start that again on Monday, or at least after the kitchen people are done again
and we get our sunroom back. Just
remembered that we’re going to lose it again.
It was such a good find after the last kitchen people left.
You didn’t hear that part yet. Earlier in the year we had both bathrooms
done and the laundry room, and we took out the third bath and made it into a
pantry with very tall shelving units on each side of the door … it was a small
half bath. We never used it and it helps
Rich out considerably with stocking food.
We’ll go into that later, but Ed did a good job. We got gouged though, and we had to hire a
new builder later in the year when we were to do our kitchen. As well, we are finishing up siding work and
had a French door added to the dining area/sunroom and a front porch. The problem was Rich (the other Rich) and the
first kitchen job, was that he did a terrible job and it was terrible to work
with him. We like the other two
contractors. We’ve got a lawyer helping
us with the first kitchen. We gave him
an 86-page picture/comment booklet of all the problems we were left with and
didn’t want to pay for. Then, we had to
hire a second kitchen contractor, Jeff, to go over the whole thing, especially
electric. Just can’t play games with
that. He will be starting his crew on
Tuesday (1-3-17). That might be the
siding contractors last day.
I think the good and bad of all this has been that we used a
part of my mother’s inheritance for this.
I think by working on the projects, it’s been like having her here,
because the ongoing thought and feeling is that we hoped she would like
it. We have some investment left and it
must be kept where it is. That is the
part – that should be helping both Rich and us as we both lean toward
retirement. I’m on disability already
and Rich just turned 65-years of age. We
hope that it supplements our incomes, but will not have to be used unless it
absolutely has too. Rich is worrying if
he goes first. He’s 8-years older than
us. Rich is planning not to retire
though until 70. Fortunately, he works
for himself and calls the hours and demands.
AND, he has an office here at our home where he can get things done in
his private space. I know if I go back
there, I’m already one foot back out of the room.
@ 2:46 pm me again – you just get a dappling at a time J We just visited Rich in his NICELY cleaned
office! It’s perfect! And he did the garbage in the sunroom and the
breezeway floors. Now he’s headed for
the bathroom and we’ve finished the sweeping washing of the kitchen floor. Rich wants to be back in the kitchen at 3 pm,
so we’ll wait until he gets in the shower, and then buff the floor … Just
doesn’t make sense to do it now – it always looks better just after you finish
it! But, nice to see the dirt spots from
the dog lift out J Hmm, wonder if I put a double coat of wax on
it? Maybe not – don’t want to fall a part
in the process. I think we’ll try to
take our shower by 5:00-5:30 pm, so make it a goal to wax before that. By then Rich should need a breather. We’re skipping the dog dishes, they are FAR
away from the party … thinking we could put them in the laundry room. Rich put the bars for hanging laundry in the
breezeway so there is plenty of room.
None of our guests will use the longer length of breezeway.
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