Bins and boxes and pains
Eleonore Beaudoin
Trains and boats and planes...
'Bins boxes and pains' did I think, as the tune 'Trains and boats and
planes' came to my mind.
Wishing it looked more xmassy here.
Since I got to feel a bit better after that summer long flu then the big
bad last thyroid peak from hell followed by its crashing for a few more weeks,
I worked all minutes I could on trying to sprt them boxes from the storage
that wait snce a year now.
I did do a few through the sick times, as I could, when I coudl move at all.
But washing everything and putting it into bins to avoid the risk of
mites, which I saw made a few holes here or there, and to not risk gettign
the ashed things in contact wit the not re-ashed sicne mite stuff, I had
ti put all in bins with scented products to try and keep the done part done.
Result? I have bins nstead of boxes piled up in living room....ARGH!
Thank goodness, I had the good idea of taking pics at two different times,
in hope that if I felt discouraged, I could look at those and realize that
some work had been done...
Peaked at a few pics just now...
I cleared all boxes in front ad underr the aquarium (110 gallon aquarium,
so big space); I cleared all the boxes against the indow wall in dining
room; I washed and covered two bird cages I want to keep, sicne I ten d to
find birds each tiem I rid of a cage and then need to buy another;-), and
put them in the basement, stored, so that cleared one corner of living
room; all that was clothes from the storage had such a smell to it that
each load of laundry needed washed 4 times: there was no getting away with
three time,s the smell of humidity would remain.
I had to stop that to attak the guest room where I found mites in some
*cedar* container, of all places...To not risk anything I had to rewash
the entire contents of that room and treat it with lemon scented cleaning
product against all kinds of mites and acarians, etc, but that gave me a
hard time breathing like mad being allergic to citrus. Each load there too
needed rshd, this time three times.
I rewashed almost all linen too from washroom, to be on the safe side, not
wanting to leave one area uncleared, to not ahve to restatrt this all over
again; I redid all front entrance closet, taking everythign that coudl not
be washed to suspeend it outdoors one cold weekend sop that anythign woudl
freeze in it woudl there be anything, desinfected the closet, then put
some cedar scented moth blass in there, mixed with other scents of cedar
to make it barable and ot make it all smell like moth balss. Worked okay
if I find it smells like a presbytary for some reason LOL:)
Stil have the suede coats to fidn to do and and room for.
As I unpacked the boxes I did, everything that was ardware, be it nails,
screw, anything, was put n kitchen table to later find it a container and
place. But no rom as it is to put anything anywhere yet, so...
I rewashed all thatw as ashed through the eyar in the basement and gave
much away of clothes that no longer did fit me, or that I did not want
anymore.
I sored clothes in bedroom from bags piled up there and boxes to, where I
have not yet washed what is left in teh room, if all I took out was washed
and put in the bins if I wanted to keep it to sort through a last tie
later, chosing among.
To make oom for the bins somehwere, carried boxes from the living roo to
the basement landing step.
All had to then be moved to get the winter tires out and the sumer ones
back in the basement. Sigh...
But it still is piles everywhere, if I did the kitchen counters and washed
the pantry doors last weekend, also putting things aside that were piled
up on ounters and stive, not having any more room to pile anything as I
sorted through.
Still have the island counter full of things and dining room table...and
of course the living room.
Guest room I coudl not touch o do a last rinsing of the walls and ceiling
and all furniture and opbject contents (like lamps and shelves) because
the citrs smell remained so darn long and wa way too strng. I in fact ahd
to leave the patio door ipstairs opened until December, as long as I coud
to be able to breath a bit n the house.
I washed the entire washroom, too but you woudl think it never was done,
as it needs already redone, which takes time off from doing the rest.
In short, try as I may, no way to make it look xmassy in any way shape or
form: not one area that is cleared entirely where I coudl add soe
decoration to make it feel like xMas...
Must say that the worries for my job and for my mom's op and health state
also ate a lot of energy, and needed addressed too in any way that I coudl
to try and salvage what could be, and embetter what could.
If work gae me less worries the lastw eeks, soemthign that I read
yesterday made me wodner again f despite the nice words, the boss did not
have in mind to close my position....Hate that feeling:(.
On days liek today, I look at the mess stillto be attaccked in the house
and wonder where to start by. Might seem silly as anything oone is always
that, but...Much can not be done at the time I.d want to because of a lack
of space and room to put wat needs washed or sorted or put in bags or
boxes to be given away.
As it is, I have two bags, garbage bag, seethrugh huge oens, ready to give
away that again block the entrance hallway, a box or two of things that
were brand new ad mispleced throughthe past years tat were intended as
presents that coud be handd for XMas presents, but no one to pick them up
that so fr comes to get them and XMas is near now...
Same with the bags of clthes to give away. Pele are busy wth xmas and are
not coming to pick them up...
If not much, the roo that takes is rom I no longer have to add more of the
stuff to give away as I woudl sort throug the rest....
I think I then will try and work on the kitchen table, puttign screws
sorted in jars and containers, and curtain hooks in another, etc, and I
dunno, maybe put thse in another box yet utl I can have room to carry the
storage unit in the basemet upstairs to ut it in a corner wit that stuff
in and oter thigns that can not fit in the basement at this time, since
that oen still is way too full with boxes.
But to ahve the dining room table to work on woudl be eat! And to see the
dining room table instead of a piles of different objects all piled up in
a mess. Who knows, perhas it will not be as bad as it looks for the time
it seems to demand, and the impossibility to find a corner where to put it
now.
Add to it tht now th airco unit is on the dining room floor...too ehavy
for me to carry it to landing step where its box is, that box being uder
all the others that were piled over it n the meantime, and argh!!
But it woudl be enat to see the table again ad to have it to sit when
sorting things instead of doing that sitting on the couch wioth all in
balance on my lap!:)
Darn, I hope I soon start to see more progress for the hard work...
And of course here is the usual sundays taken by the weekly chores like
laundry bird cages to was, etc, which never leaves me much time...
I waske up at 4 a.m. or so to try and wake up enougto do some before
leaving for work, and all I can after work, after the brds are put to
bed;-), to try and get ahead.
But darn...I coud use soem fun in the middle of it all, or some xmas
cheery touch for the hard work.
Have bought nothgn at all of the wish lists...Broke, and wodnering hw to
pay my car registratiosn next Jan, and the rentthat will by then be behind....
gragging me mentally with worries.
The day I will get out of this, eeeew.....
Tose who stopp by say nothing at time,s ther times pass comments where you
wish yo coudlstrangle them for darign to apss omments while doig all they
can f course to not be availableto help. Besides, hwo coudl they help? I
have a gard time finding room to even open the dang door, mft:)
Oh well.
It will get done. One ore lousy xmas time....
No xmas nothing.
BUT...My mom made it and for tat it will be a nice xmas:):), heart
warming, so much that!
And the pets I have elft also made it:), after Belami was as sick as me at
the same time I was, catching the flus I did catch and all that.
And well, I can look forward to a new year to put this one behind, the oen
thatw as said to be my lucky year, for it being 2009, when my bday was the
9-9-2009. Said to be a lucky year for me then.
Thak God cause I woudl not have wanted it to be unlucky on top of it all!LOL:)
Will have been sort,that year, since sept 9 was not so far back...
In the meantime....Kick in the butt an try and get soe cheery thought to
try and get more done....
Wish I coud be doing crafts, paintings, I dunno, feel holidays somehow...
Maybe if I clear the dining room table....So long as whatever I do then
doe snot refill it , be it with crafts materials:):)
Hope your place looks more xmassy and festive!:)
C
Linda Freeman
Eleonore Beaudoin
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