I know I haven’t updated in a while but it has a lot to do with how busy I’ve been for the past five/six days. Karen and I were talking the other night in the kitchen, which is a typical thing for us, and the topic of clearing up her desk area (in the kitchen) came up. When she moved in she kind of threw all of the bills and other desk related things on a couple of shelves and into the filing cabinet and that’s been her system for the past few years now. Me, being an organizational freak, asked if she’d ever let me do something with it and then out of no where she runs to her bedroom and pulls out all kinds of storage and organizational solutions that I was surprised she’d even had, considering the state of the desk to begin with.
The next morning (Thursday) she left to meet up with her sister in Atlantic City. I then took over the daunting task of finally organizing all of her paperwork to make her life much, much easier. After doing a complete and total clean up of the kitchen, giving me ample counter space to spread out on, I started with the filing cabinet and about 6 hours later I’d completed my sort through about 10 years worth of paperwork to put it all into proper labeled folders. When the weight of completing that was lifted from my shoulders, I looked up to the shelves above me and I’ll admit, my head began to throb a little. I pulled things down a few piles at a time and sorted through everything. I then reorganized the items that were meant to stay out on that shelf and everything is now complete. The project time took me about 10 hours in total, and that’s not counting the two breaks I took to put my eyes back in the sockets. Damn did they need a rest!
The next morning I knew that there was a lot more to accomplish, it was great to walk into the kitchen and not see that mess around the computer but when I’d gotten a paper cut the evening before I attempted to find a band aid in the medicine cabinet but was unable to dig through everything to easily find one. Expired medicine and prescription medication for her mother (whom died in 2005) was taking over ample space in this cabinet. So I went through all of that as well, and it turned out pretty nicely. There was even extra space available on the top shelf so I then had room to get everything off of the counters that was medicine related as well.
I floated around the house and sprinkled some carpet fresh and then vacuumed the entire house and managed to clean up the coffee table and any other surface that was covered in clutter. The only spot that I couldn’t get to (because my back went out again thanks to over-working myself) was our “Junk” area in the kitchen. It’s a pile of just about everything, that’s hidden when you first look at the kitchen (it’s under the bar – that no one uses because of the awkward height of the chairs for it).
My back is still very sore, I have good days and bad days. Unfortunately the really nasty weather isn’t helping very much either. It’s got everyone in a funk and the cold weather isn’t doing anything good for my back these days. I have the windows open during the day, even though it’s chilly, to air out the stale smoke smell in the house. Karen went back to smoking when she put Candy down and she’s just now getting back on her Nicorette. Unfortunately when she smokes in the house, my twinge for it kicks in and I started doing it as well. I’ve always gone outside, probably why I was always able to tan so well considering I’d be outside all day long in the summer with my laptop and a cig. But a few bad weeks and now I’m back on track with things. I’ve also added filters to my cigs, even though I smoke Ultra-Lights I’m still injesting a lot of TAR, and now I’ve gotten myself tarless filters to help me cut down on that intake. Eventually I’ll be completely done with it. I’ve purchased my last carton and by this time next week (at the rate that I smoke) I’ll be “cold turkey” and able to get around without getting winded. It’s a 10 year addiction that’s being thrown away in one night – hopefully my PMDD doesn’t kick in cause Sean won’t know what hit him.
I’m patiently waiting on call-backs from a few companies. I’m still hoping to land the job for that interview I went on a few weeks ago. I’m also waiting on some kind of an email from a company I was just accepted to as a contractor. I sent in all of the paperwork last week, EIN# and everything else included. I’m just not in their system yet so I can’t start floating through the LEADS to start working.
In any event, I need to find something to do. There’s nothing really going on online and I don’t have any work waiting for me. I think I’m going to straighten up the kitchen and make some lunch for Bella and I. She isn’t feeling too well but that has a lot to do with the rain, we haven’t been able to bring her out as often as she’s used to so I think she’s feeling withdrawn as well.