Howdy do, all! We're back to Monday. I hope you guys had an awesome weekend and are rarin' to go for the new week. (I can't remember the last time I was rarin' to do anything but I digress.) I hope all of you late tax folk remember today is the day to get everything submitted! (We're the people getting it over with at the beginning of February.)
I had to share this 'warning' from the Amazon delivery person that made us crack up:
TOO funny and I encourage more tomfoolery from this person because who couldn't use a random smile when opening your Mrs Dash Lemon Pepper seasoning?
Saturday we had mediocre eats which always sets the tone. We tried to go to the historic district for our walk but it was way too crowded and there was construction going on so that was a bust. I told the Mr to drive to my grandpa's cemetery not too far away and we could make a loop of it. (It's been a LONG time since I've done that.) We showed grandpa (a car guy) the new ride then got on our way. The sun was hot even though the wind was blowing. When we made it back to his stepdaughters grave, I noticed it, along with her dad's headstones, were being swallowed whole by grass. I was ticked. "Perpetual care" my ass. I got the clippers we keep in the car and got to work. Both graves looked like the top pic below:
The bottom is what her grave looked like when I was done. I didn't have enough full charge to get his but might in the future. Those clippers are awesome and really went above and beyond. I did order some grave stone cleaner since I saw my great grandma's stone has that black crap creeping in on it and I don't want it to get out of hand. When we were done, I'd burned 700 calories so that's good. I'd pay for it later but I'm used to it. Didn't really do much after but I did get to do a fun, grief soaked panic attack with ugly crying for two hours. I guess I should've started the workout button!
Sunday I made brunch for the first time in forever. Then we went in the basement and tried to tackle some of that. Again...there's progress but it just doesn't feel like enough which probably had a lot more to do with the heap that is the craft table that never got used for it's intended purpose but any progress is good progress. The Mr hung up some baskets that I didn't need from the previous shelf configuration but I didn't want to get rid of so now they are installed under our laundry center we built back in 2019 holding random stuff in one and laundry supplies in the other. We got the curtains that go over the shelves washed and re-hung. I found a box that I thought was living room stuff but turns out to be nightstand stuff from July 2022! It has stuff I have no idea where it goes but don't want to throw out either so I condensed stuff as much as I could and got three smaller boxes unloaded and a lot of the stuff under the right side of the table gone through so at least ONE stool could go back where it belonged. The Mr donated our old Bissel since we don't have carpeted floors anymore which made me sad but it needed to be done. We got a portable one that will hopefully clean the couch in between wrestling the slipcovers off and he did the stairs going up. The friggin' battery died again in my car and I have a chiro appointment today so the Mr got a free battery since it was on it's last month under warranty. I came up to take a break and my friend called and we gabbed for 90 minutes which was nice. But then it was 6:30pm and I didn't have it in me for a workout given how crappy my legs felt so I didn't have a choice. Then it was chill time and that was that. I miss exciting weekends.
How was your weekend?
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That walk was epic. I was really feeling it towards the end and I don't know how you had the energy to trim around the grave after all that. You did a great job though. Have a good week everyone!
ReplyDeleteThat Amazon driver is a hoot! What a great way to have fun in your day and give people a laugh and a smile! Sounds like you had a most productive weekend and made some good headway with the basement. Those little moves and changes may not seem like much, but they are getting you to where the big changes are going to become very clear when you look around. It's like of like cleaning out your filing cabinet. No one can see that anything has changed after one file is cleaned up, but by the time you're done, everything is neat and orderly and it its place. I hope your body is recovering for the long and winding walk that did a number on your legs.
ReplyDeleteWeekend was good here. Made a lot of headway on Saturday with random things around the house, which felt really good. I took the cover protector off the a/c unit because it was going to be in the 80s yesterday. I ran the air for a few hours before the temps went up and then that kept the house cool for the rest of the day and night. Saturday we were able to have the windows open and that felt wonderful. Yesterday was church and the hubs worked. Got all the usual Sunday evening chores done then it was time for bed to get ready for the Mondays.