Day Six
Slowly but sure things are coming along in my apartment. I still have to paint the other bedroom, but that's not a priority right now.
Yesterday I got my bed moved and set up in my bedroom, and even slept in it last night. It was odd not having a pile of things on one side of the bed to try to get comfortable around, but it was nice at the same time. Not all of my bedding was dry so I slept under a couple of my blankets that don't really see a lot of use on my bed. This morning I put my comforter and other set of sheets into the dryer - the comforter is on my bed and the sheets are put away for when I have to wash the set currently on my bed, and the mattress protector is currently tucked away in my closet for now as it wasn't dry in time for me to put into my bed last night - I put my duvet directly on the mattress for now.
I'm back to work today and I'm hoping that my cat doesn't lose her mind over being alone. I'm not quite ready yet to look at getting another cat, especially when my daughter has only been away for a week herself. I guess part of me keeps hoping that maybe she'll change her mind and move back in here.
I do touch base with my daughter daily. It's weird to not just be able to pop my head into her room and chat, or have her come into whatever room I'm in to have a quick chat about whatever is on her mind.
Tonight I have a feeling that it is going to really hit home that she's gone when I get home to an empty apartment. Empty of noise and of people, not stuff. I *know* I still have way too much stuff but that will be something I'm working on for the next while.
My plan is that over the next week or so that I will clear out the accumulation of junk in my old bedroom and take everything off the walls in there so I can paint that room next. I'll take my time with painting it though as it is not as imperative to get it done as it was for my new bedroom. My fear is that the room will turn into one giant doom pile before I can get into it with some garbage bags and storage bins.
I've also decided that once I've got that room cleared out, painted, and set up, that I will likely move the cat litter box into there instead of leaving it in the kitchen. If I can reclaim that bit of kitchen it will all be to the good. But that is not something I'm in a huge rush to do.
This morning I brought my little computer desk up from the basement to put into my bedroom for now. I've got my laptop, monitor, keyboard, and mouse set up on it for the time being. At least until I can get my larger desk moved into the living room finally. I had contemplated putting my computer desk into my bedroom, but I realized that with how I've got the portable closet and shoe rack on the one wall that there would not be enough room to get through the door. So, I will stick with my original plan of moving the large desk into the living room and put all my computer stuff out there, and then eventually look at getting a vanity table in place of my little computer desk. Besides, being stored in the basement has not done my little computer desk much good...it's rusted in spots and I can't get the keyboard tray to move due to being rusted in place. Once I can find my can of WD-40 I should be able to fix that, but for now my keyboard is on the desk itself.
In about two hours I will need to start getting ready to head to work. Part of me wants to putter around some more to see what else I can relocate in the disaster that still is my old bedroom, but another part of me just wants to take it easy and relax a bit. We'll see what part wins out, shall we?
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