PROGRESS ... I THINK
It’s exactly one month since I explained how good I am at procrastination. I’m here to tell you that I may take it to an art form. Such is my talent.
As of yesterday I finally finished painting my office. Except for the very heavy desk and two cabinets full of stuff which I cannot move on my own, the room is now ready for its new flooring. Technically speaking this is only two coats of paint further along than a month ago, so nothing to brag about. On the other hand I do have other irons in the fire at the moment.
I spent a few days cleaning up the yard and putting away all my planters once Jack Frost finished off the summer’s glory. This year I decided to bring in a few of the prettiest plants in so I could start my own planter fillers in the spring. All that green in my living room window is a real picker-upper on these dark, cold and snowy days. The cat considers them his personal forest.
Another renovation project has come to fruition as well. We are not sure if light fixtures are just designed to give off less light these days, or the older we get the more our personal dimmer switches take over, but it had got to the point where the lighting in our kitchen/dining room couldn’t be considered ‘romantic’ any longer. Thanks to my brother-in-law’s ingenuity the glow from our kitchen window can now be detected from the Space Station. I love it. It’s so much easier to hunt down the gross and zombie-like flies that insist on moving in for the winter. I get the ones above the two foot mark and the cat is on a ‘catch and kill’ mission for the rest.
I also tackled the IT job of moving the computer and desk out of the office. There was a time when would have had to call in a kid to do this job ... all those wires and plugs and ports used to intimidate the heck out of me. This time (because all my kids have grown up and moved away) I armed myself with an extra mug of brain stimulator juice, a roll of painter’s tape and a marker and spent the morning methodically untangling and labeling EVERYTHING. Piece by piece all the components made the trip to another room where I reassembled them. Correctly. The first time. I was feeling extremely accomplished until the very end when I realized I could move the machine but not the modem. It’s attached to an actual cable in the office. We have WiFi throughout the house but I sure will be glad to get hooked back up!
The other thing I’m working on these days is running for Reeve in our municipality ... think ‘mayor’ of the rural side of our community. The election is on November 9, we shall see how this turns out. My motivation is to give back to my community and I think I have lots to offer in that regard but it’s all up to the voters. Like I said ... we shall see.
