I did it!!
Posted by Robyn Nelson on Friday, March 28, 2014
I am so proud of myself. I cleaned our bedroom. I put the heavy blanket back into storage until next winter. Cleaned up my closet a lot so I could put other stuff away, I even threw out some old shoes, that I am sure i am going to look for someday, only to find they don't fit and they are too worn out to wear anyways. There was some other stuff I put away. I even took all the sheets and blankets down that we hang over our curtain to keep it warmer and darker in our room. Then I put up a nice liner to help darken the room back up, but now, instead of it looking all tacky, it looks very nice. Our curtains are just too sheer for me to leave with all the headaches I have been having the past several months. Then I vacuumed everything, even under the treadmill. I also tackled the bathroom. It looks much better. there are still a few things I can clean up in there, but it is done. I was just able to put so much away where it belongs.
Once I had the bedroom and bathroom cleaned, EO brought the girl's boxes in and put them on the treadmill. So they look nice and neat. Well, at least as much as they can being they are still boxes on a treadmill. Once Lauren moves, then we can put Steph's boxes into Lauren's old room. All of EO's hunting stuff will go in there right away too. I have a number of other things that I will be putting in there too, but I don't know when I will do that.
So EO and I are happy now with it being cleaned up. It isn't perfect, yet... but compared to what it was... it was terribly embarrassing. We still have empty boxes sitting out here, but those will be taken care of soon too.
It took me a long time, because I would do a task, then lay down for 10 minutes, then do a task and then lay down... I couldn't go full force and just get the job done. i haven't been able to do that in a long time. It makes me feel like I am getting old, when it isn't the age yet, it's the health. It seems so trivial to be so happy about something so insignificant, but for me, this is a huge deal. Only once did I need to throw up yesterday. I was able to work through most of the pain. Now today my lymph nodes are super swollen and I can't even put my arms down at my sides, I couldn't have done any cleaning in this condition. The back of the head headache I have, I know is from working. I didn't have to do tons of lifting or anything. In fact, i sat on the bed and did the edging with the vacuum cleaner. when I did the edging in our bathroom, I sat on the edge of the tub and did that. I figured out ways to do what I needed done.
EO hasn't talked anymore about yesterday. Mostly he just sat quiet and watched TV. He doesn't do that very often...sit and watch TV. But since the weather was so nasty yesterday, that was how he could decompress what had happened. As if he doesn't have enough to deal with, then he has that thrown at him.
Once I had the bedroom and bathroom cleaned, EO brought the girl's boxes in and put them on the treadmill. So they look nice and neat. Well, at least as much as they can being they are still boxes on a treadmill. Once Lauren moves, then we can put Steph's boxes into Lauren's old room. All of EO's hunting stuff will go in there right away too. I have a number of other things that I will be putting in there too, but I don't know when I will do that.
So EO and I are happy now with it being cleaned up. It isn't perfect, yet... but compared to what it was... it was terribly embarrassing. We still have empty boxes sitting out here, but those will be taken care of soon too.
It took me a long time, because I would do a task, then lay down for 10 minutes, then do a task and then lay down... I couldn't go full force and just get the job done. i haven't been able to do that in a long time. It makes me feel like I am getting old, when it isn't the age yet, it's the health. It seems so trivial to be so happy about something so insignificant, but for me, this is a huge deal. Only once did I need to throw up yesterday. I was able to work through most of the pain. Now today my lymph nodes are super swollen and I can't even put my arms down at my sides, I couldn't have done any cleaning in this condition. The back of the head headache I have, I know is from working. I didn't have to do tons of lifting or anything. In fact, i sat on the bed and did the edging with the vacuum cleaner. when I did the edging in our bathroom, I sat on the edge of the tub and did that. I figured out ways to do what I needed done.
EO hasn't talked anymore about yesterday. Mostly he just sat quiet and watched TV. He doesn't do that very often...sit and watch TV. But since the weather was so nasty yesterday, that was how he could decompress what had happened. As if he doesn't have enough to deal with, then he has that thrown at him.
