It seems like when I'm busy I wish for more time to do the things I don't have time to do. But here I am with time to do things, and I'm struggling for motivation to do them. Maybe it's because I'm not too excited about doing all of those things I don't usually have time to do. One of the things that really needs to happen this month (it's JULY already!?) is the cleaning out of the closet under the stairs. It's a very big, deep closet, and it has been a catch-all for children's artwork, scrapbooking supplies, and various electronic chords and wires, the stuff from our former house's office closet, and the coats. If that were all that was in there, it wouldn't be so bad. There are also a few things I need to locate for work that I just didn't bother even trying to find until I had the time to get things out in an orderly way and put things back in a way that made a little more sense than how it's currently configured. Boy, that makes me tired just thinking about it. (I know I have a conducting baton in there somewhere, I'm just sure of it.)
The rest of this week is going to be eaten up by laundry. I still haven't done laundry since vacation, and the regular laundry is piling up too. So I'm dodging the closet for this week.
Next week we are planning to go to a waterpark with some friends on Tuesday, and then I'm taking the girls to visit a friend and her son out of town Thursday through Saturday. No closet next week either.
Then the week after that I think I'll be painting our master bedroom. We currently have a 19" TV mounted on the wall, and it looks like a hospital TV. It's the TV my grandparents gave me when I graduated high school and went off to college. It's so old the only input is has on the back is a coax cable input. Anyway, we mounted it there when we moved in because it was the best solution at the time. Nowadays (don't I sound old saying that?!) with flat-screen TV's there are better options available. All that to say painting the room has been waiting on working a better TV solution. Hubby was waiting for the size he wanted to drop below a particular price point, and that happened yesterday. He ordered the TV online, and it shipped yesterday. He bought the mounting bracket and HDMI cables from monoprice.com a couple weeks ago. Once the cables are run through the wall, we'll have a nice set-up with no wires showing. The way we have it with the old TV, there are 2 chords running up the wall. It will be a very welcome change.
Yesterday I didn't do very much. It was one of the most blah days of the summer yet. I did manage to run over to the grocery store (at 4:30 PM) to buy some stuff to make dinner. Last night's dinner was a bright spot in the otherwise completely blah day. I made pork tenderloin, asparagus and roasted potatoes. Big Girl loved the pork tenderloin and declared it her new favorite meal. I'd give the asparagus an A+, but the tenderloin could have been better. It was a meal designed around things I wanted to eat rather than things that would have been easy to make. I've already had enough of mac & cheese and chicken nuggets to last me all summer.
The song in my head right now is the theme from "WordGirl." My girls have watched so much TV this week... I'm failing as a mother... Anyway, at least they're not watching commercial TV. And at least they're not eating an exclusive diet of mac & cheese and chicken nuggets. It could be worse.
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