I'm starting to think. . .

 

Old ceiling fan.  The room has two of these, so this one still needs to come down.  It will be sent to scrap as it does not work correctly.  The other will be donated.

One ceiling fan went up, but after we painted the ceiling, so we'll need to pull the top metal piece down and touch up the paint.   The old ceiling fans were both about 16-17 years old, and they were used (not new) when the builders installed them.  The newer ones now have a hook on them, making it much much easier to wire in.  The new fans have reversible blades, so if we decide we don't like them this color, we can flip the blades to make them all white.

Although we got one completely installed, we got no where after that. He got the painted trim up around one door, and the battery on the nail gun died.  Our handy man had borrowed 3 batteries and a saw on Friday, and they were not returned until later yesterday.

We ran to town to beat the storm, and to get a few items we needed.  After that nothing got done.

My husband is putting the cart before the horse again.  He wants to move furniture back to the bedroom before the floor trim is installed, closet door installed, and other things that need finished first.

He's also expecting me to entertain a meal (today of all days), and my kitchen is completely full of donations, boxes of stuff from the bedroom, our suitcase we are still living out of, a bookshelf that needs to go upstairs......I can't.  I just can't do it.  The table is covered with "stuff" once again with the gutting of the bedroom etc.  I suggested we meet somewhere, and that was rejected.  I honestly want to work on the bedroom and stay home and get ahead on this project.

I'm starting to think that participating in a craft show this month was a bad idea.  I do not have room in the living room to bring all my completed inventory downstairs.  

Mental Break ~ Self Care Day

I took a day off to get a mental break so to speak.  Do we really get a complete day off?  I mean there is cooking, meal planning, dishes, laundry, dusting, sweeping floors.....the things we have to do to keep our home clean.

However, we have been going, going and going on this home repairs and renovating, and I noticed I was so exhausted.  

So what did I do to get a break? First, I gave myself a break from stressing over the messy house due to the work needed done.  I gave myself a pass so to speak and decided to not be so hard on myself for the condition of the house in whole.  In order to completely gut a room, the contents will end up in another room, making you feel overwhelmed, hence the "pass" on a messy home.

I disconnected with any social media.  I watched movies and finally (finally) finished our blanket for the living room.

I literally crocheted an entire day, sipped coffee and binge watched movies.  I dug out the bag of camper ornament pieces and got them all finished!  The list of the "unfinished" is finally dwindling.  The ornaments just need packaged for the craft show this month.

We are expecting bad weather today.  There were tornado warning last night in areas all around us, but thankfully we did not get hit with one here.

The forecast is rain and a wind advisory, so we won't be returning flooring supplies today.  It will be a bad day to haul anything in the bed of the truck. 

I may have convinced my husband to re-install bedroom door trim, and move our dresser out of the master bath, and start working on the carpet removal of the closet.  We'll see what we get done today ha ha!  It's almost a two day job, as the floor trim needs installed as well.