VAAAAACAAAAASHUUUNNNNNN!

Technically, my time off began on Friday, but that was taken up with a retirement party for someone in our office, plus driving around on various small errands. I didn't have the chance to sleep late or avoid getting in the car -- unlike today. I slept in a tiny bit, got up to help Honey with her laptop (an official one) that somehow Sonny had "borrowed" to his room, and now is not working. Even attempting to boot in Safe Mode didn't work. Sonny has some 'splaining to do, eh?

After that, I got a cuppa, a slice of blueberry bread, and the paper from yesterday (unfinished due to extra work), and crawled back into my nice warm bed. After I finished the paper, I had a lovely little nap, then got up and got to slaving away in the various front rooms.

We've been redoing closets, so one closet no longer holds coats (now a linen closet). All the coats are thusly piled in the front room, so I cleaned out the closet in the sun room (which is now more properly labeled the ICE ROOM, as it is COLD out there) and moved some coats over. I've also got the camping box to close up and move into the basement, and then I can shift to the upstairs to clean the guest room. It hasn't been used as a guest room in quite some time, because it had been Honey's "home office" for a while, and it's full of her old files in boxes all over the place. I'm going to scan some documents onto CD or DVD for storage, and store the rest in the basement with the cats, which requires some preplanning as I'll have to put together the last shelving unit (still in its box). Metro shelving is very nice -- sturdy, easy to put together and results in a minimum of swearing. But before I put up the shelving unit, I'll have to clean out a spot to park it, which means that before I can get to work on the guest room, I have to spend some time in the basement.

Planning ahead, yeah.

Yesterday the bells played "Little Drummer Boy" and "O Come Thou Long Expected Jesus". All of us played in LDB, which is a nice song full of eighth notes and people have a tendency to rush ahead when there's more fast little notes. We managed to stay on target and even sounded nice. Our director played the triangle and a drum to round out the sound. He's a talented musician -- he also played his trumpet in a solo at the end, and his valve was stuck, so he transposed his music up in order to play the piece. On the fly, as he was playing, he was mentally transposing all his notes. Yes, he's a middle school music teacher, how did you guess?

All right. Back to the front room, to finish moving coats to the Ice Room, then to the basement to find the contact information for the heat pump company (annual checkup time) and the shelving unit. Don't wait up for me.

VAAAAACAAAAASHUNNNN, update numero uno

Metro shelving is now put together, the easiest one so far -- all those hours of swearing and getting fingers pinched have finally paid off. Of course, Cinder attempted to escape from the room, as the door doesn't close tightly when the ambient humidity drops below 35%, and it can be easily pushed open by a cat nose. Ha. After her failure, she hopped up onto the lower shelf where her "bed" is, and watched me put the new one up. BT disappeared the instant I started shifting things around, as her hiding place was in this location and I was doing Strange Things, which means she needs to hide anyway. I think she went behind the heat pump which would be a nice quiet and warm place to go.

The AC/Heating company has been called, and they will come out tomorrow for the annual checkup requested by the heat pump. Yes, the thermostat gives us messages like "Annual check requested" and other fine things. Since it's so polite about it, the least I can do is call it in.

Now I need to make a shopping list for Homo Depot* and plan to pick up a few items for the fixing of things, like a sheet of plywood for the bottom of the shelving in the pantry closet. I had measured the space, but didn't measure between the baseboards, and the shelving unit was just the right size for the closet..only above the baseboards. So now I need to raise up the shelving unit with a platform.

I also need some shelf brackets to put in a few upper shelves for a different closet, although that may wait a bit.

I finally got some longer staples, but we still haven't fixed the cable line under the bedroom -- I went in the other day, and managed not to succeed at placing the new whatchamacallit or at crimping it on. Hmph. They make it sound so simple.

I suppose I should think about dinner too.




*You do see a lot of lesbians there, don't you? It's practically our ancient gathering place.