Gettin' Things Done

I was going to write about my ex tonight and how he ticked me off, again, by trying to pull his macho, he-man bullshit. But I’m not going to. It’s not worth my time, effort, and stress level to rehash it. It’s done, I can’t change it, so I’ll just let it go. Instead I’ll try to talk about more positive things.

We got a lot done today, Kara and I. We went to Lowe’s and got some things we needed for the house and our organizing projects. We bought a row of hooks for the back of my bathroom door so I could hang the kids’ and my towels in a more accessible place to the shower. I installed them and can now reach my towel from the shower without getting the floor all wet. We also bought handles for the door that leads from the house to the garage. It’s a pocket door that won’t stay on track and the already-existing “handles” are the hardware that came with the door and are really hard to grip. I installed the new handles and now we can open the door with little-to-no effort. YEA!!

We also got shelf clips for my bookshelves. In the move some of them fell out so I didn’t have enough to get all the shelves in place. Today I did. Now I can get my books and all of our movies unpacked. I didn’t have time to do it earlier and I’d do it now but it’s really late. We have a couple of things to do tomorrow morning but I can definitely get started in the afternoon. It’s always exciting to make more room and to put things where they belong.

Then I get to spend tomorrow evening doing laundry so the kids have clean clothes to take to their dad’s house for the holiday. Wednesday we’ll spend a little time together before he comes to get them and then I’ll have plenty of time to get more of our stuff in order. With a lot of hard work I should have most of our stuff in order before they get back on Sunday; and Kara should be able to put her car in the garage again. I think I said that a day or so ago. I just can’t wait to get it done, though. Can you tell? I have to get it done, too, because it’ll be time for us to put up our Christmas stuff very soon. I need the room to do that.

I can even work on organizing and unpacking Thanksgiving day if I want to because, as I already mentioned, I’ll be here alone. I’ll get my MP3 player charged and I’ll be ready to go. With music playing and no interruptions, I can go all day. I do have to make some phone calls first, though. I’ll talk to the kids before they have dinner, and I’ll call a couple of friends to say “Happy Thanksgiving.” I haven’t had the time to call anyone lately so I’d like to at least call on the holiday.

I want to call Ellen to catch up a bit. She reads my blog so she’s caught up with me, for the most part, but I haven’t had the opportunity to catch up with her. I won’t be able to catch up too much on the holiday because she’ll be with her family but I do want to call and say a quick hello. I’ve got to call Joe who I’ve also missed recently, and probably one or two more people I haven’t gotten the chance to call recently. It sucks and I feel bad but I’ve got to get my home and my life in order; that’s a must. My friends all understand; they’ve been through hard times, too. Once things are more settled here I’ll have the time to sit and chat occasionally. I can’t wait for that either; I miss my friends.

So that’s that for this evening. Not much to talk about but I did get a lot of satisfaction with all the handy work I did today. It always makes me feel good when I get a lot accomplished. I love sitting back and enjoying the view. By the end of the weekend, the view around here should be fabulous. Right now, though, I’m going to bed to dream about all the positive things I’ll get done over the next few days; and all of the positive things coming my way once the clutter is gone. Ah, the joy of it all. I’m so happy for the kids and me. I know you are too.

Until next time…peace to all.