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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2015 23:02:04 GMT -6
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Post by paulette on Apr 25, 2015 22:08:28 GMT -6
Things are coming apart in my house. In a good way.
It started with a tile falling out of the backsplash area of the tub. One day before our driving vacation (we hadn't been off the island in over 2 years). But the tile fell off and we looked behind it and saw....
Nothing. I mean - not a wall. I'm no carpenter but I knew that was wrong. So that meant ripping that part of the bathroom out - down to the studs. Then dry walling and then installing a shower surround (I gave up on having a bath tub). And that meant we'd have to paint the walls because some were freshly dry walled. So THAT MEANT choosing a different color - a mocha rather than puky pink. And the sink and cabinet areas had to be emptied and then scrubbed and I bought two colors of green to paint them - lighter doors, darker surrounding frames. Because I always got bad vibes from that bathroom and then I fell and broke my arm and experienced the worst pain of my life as I lay on the floor in there. I hated that room.
So now (eventually) its going to be mocha and the "shelving and such green. It wouldn't look new or fashion page right, but it will be fresh and new-to-me. When this house sells it will be torn down for the property anyway. Might as well paint it gypsy! My conservative husband has been trying to "talk me into" leaving the wood as wood - we have same wood cabinets in the kitchen as well. I hate those too but not like the gunky pink bathroom. It soaked up the angst of sneak smokers, teen girls anquishing over zits and features they didn't approve of, spilled nail polish and hair products, and my pain. Those folks don't have to reside here anymore...
Out with the old...We've known for 7 years we would have to do this. It took that one tile coming loose to start the renewal process. Call it an angelic intervention perhaps...
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Post by lois on Apr 25, 2015 22:26:54 GMT -6
I been exhausted for weeks without any reason for it. I never sleep during the day never. I been laying down right in the middle of a house chore. I even went so far to buy me some B complex pills. But two days ago it picked up I did tons of house choirs and then went out an mowed the yard. Explain this to me. Today and this very minute I want to rest.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2015 23:58:38 GMT -6
I've been working around here like someone possessed LOL. Scrubbing down to the bare bones of this place..moving furniture around to make things totally open and light and breezy. I got rid of anything clunky and junky and lit it up with flame less candles in pretty colors..real candles and tons of house plants. Along with an affinity for getting along with animals..I can grow anything...and it's now everywhere..an herb garden out on my porch..tomato plants..sunflowers.. (all of this in a two bedroom upstairs apartment LOL. I needed drastic change. Then all of the sudden it was like someone pulled a plug and I wound down for about 3 days..then zing..right back at it. Like I need to push myself..like I'm repairing something inward. I know exactly how you feel about that bathroom Paulette. This is one of the reasons that article made sense to me. I'm not being overly smart though..I moved my huge long desk..scrubbed the rug behind and reorganized down to a flat surface. Never dawned on me to take the very heavy drawers out..shaking my head...would have been so much easier. Maybe that was part of the idea..not to make it so easy.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2015 1:10:34 GMT -6
Me too. I'm chalking it up to "Spring Cleaning".
The boyfriend and his mother helped me clean up the basement today and we're going to have a yard sale to get rid of all our old clutter.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2015 17:16:23 GMT -6
Glad I'm not alone LOL
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Post by lois on Apr 27, 2015 0:40:39 GMT -6
I've been working around here like someone possessed LOL. Scrubbing down to the bare bones of this place..moving furniture around to make things totally open and light and breezy. I got rid of anything clunky and junky and lit it up with flame less candles in pretty colors..real candles and tons of house plants. Along with an affinity for getting along with animals..I can grow anything...and it's now everywhere..an herb garden out on my porch..tomato plants..sunflowers.. (all of this in a two bedroom upstairs apartment LOL. I needed drastic change. Then all of the sudden it was like someone pulled a plug and I wound down for about 3 days..then zing..right back at it. Like I need to push myself..like I'm repairing something inward. I know exactly how you feel about that bathroom Paulette. This is one of the reasons that article made sense to me. I'm not being overly smart though..I moved my huge long desk..scrubbed the rug behind and reorganized down to a flat surface. Never dawned on me to take the very heavy drawers out..shaking my head...would have been so much easier. Maybe that was part of the idea..not to make it so easy. Ive moved four rooms of furniture in the past two weeks. I blame it on why I feel so exhausted. It is not that kind of exhaustion .
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2015 10:18:11 GMT -6
I'm being especially meticulous about my cleaning. I always move the furniture and such to do that "deep down" cleaning, but I usually do it in a way that the room looks totally turned upside down while I'm at it. This time, I'm trying to do a small section of the room at a time. Maybe, I'm just getting "wiser" . Smaller space; don't want huge disarray. really though, it's an energy thing. I have ideas of what I want to do, and then push myself to get started, so it feels like I'm not accomplishing much. The kind of tired I have at night is the "good kind". Not a "sick" tired, but one of working physically all day, hitting the pillow, and falling asleep. I'm glad for the physical, because my heart and mind are NOT at ease. I know why, but yet I don't.
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