Compulsive hoarding is a mental disorder that is just beginning to be understood. As a hoarder, I have acquired things over the years with a specific purpose in mind at the time of the acquisition, used some of those items for their intended purposes, forgotten the goal for different objects, but now that I find that they have outlived their purpose in my life I am struggling to rid myself of those same things.

You can read the start of my journey here.

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Getting there...

I'm doing my best to get out of the rut and into a groove and having some success...

Went to the dentist first thing this morning to see, if I needed another root canal. A few weeks ago I went in and had one of my molars prepped for a crown, and it hasn't stopped hurting since then. The dentist tapped my tooth with a fair amount of force, and it didn't hurt, so no root canal is necessary. That was a nice surprise.

When I was done, I had to return some headphones of the girls that had broken. This is the 2nd pair in the last month that we've had to return, but they lasted quite awhile. One pair lasted 8 months - the other 9. The really good thing is that the store no longer carries them, so we'll get a store credit for them, and we can still buy the headphones online for less than half what we paid for them in the store. Plus we'll get to go shopping and spend the store credit. It's a win/win.

When I was done returning the headphones, I ran to the hardware store. I needed to ask a few questions about small fluorescent light that we bought to go above the kitchen sink. We'd had one for a little over a year, but the ballast couldn't be replaced. If we'd known that when we bought the thing, we never would have bought it. Who buys what basically is a disposable light??

Got the information I needed, picked up 4 packages of light bulbs for 50 cents a pack, since each was short a bulb or two, grabbed a fluorescent bulb that is in the sunshine spectrum, (hoping it helps with my seasonal depression over the winter months), and came home to wire a cord onto the replacement light Hubster picked up this weekend. It was supposed to be hardwired, but there's no wiring in the area we wanted it installed, so I just reused the cord from the disposable light. Wiring it with the cord took no time at all, but I got distracted by the garden once I was done...

Picked over 3 gallons of tomatoes today. There are still a few that have pockmarks from hail damage, and they'll spoil quickly, so I need to do what I can to process them tomorrow. I'll be blanching and freezing most of them, but I'll make some sort of sauce with the really ripe ones. I will just let it simmer on the back burner for most of the day and make some sort of pasta dish with some of it and toss the rest in a freezer bag to use later.

After taking the girls' temperatures to see, if they'll be going to school and the day program tomorrow, (they won't be - they are both feverish), calling them in sick, and getting them to bed I started working on installing the light above the kitchen sink. It took quite a bit of work to get it installed, because the only stud I could mount it to was centered above the sink, and the screw holes were on either end of the light. I took a scrap of 1x6 that was out in the garage and attached it to the stud centered above the sink and into wall anchors on either end. Then I just screwed the light fixture onto the 1x6. It worked well, but it was a literal pain in the neck due to the odd angle I had to crane my neck in order to see what I was doing.

By the time I was done, my head was throbbing. It's obvious that the girls have shared, and I've got whatever is giving them the fevers. The good thing is that I will sleep like a dream tonight. Hubster helped me put plywood between our mattress and box springs, and it has made all the difference in the world! It's the first I've awakened in a really long time without my back hurting me all day long. 

So yeah. Now I'm ready to go to bed and see, if I can't get rid of the rest of this headache.

8 comments:

  1. What a day! Kudos to your ability to juggle different kinds of tasks. Good thing that you've learned about your lighting fixture. It actually pays to ask upon purchase to avoid future woes. Keep us posted with all your adventures.

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    1. Thanks, Regina. :) It's nice to meet you. And I just wish I had more days like that!!

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  2. I hate when my To Do list makes it's own to do list. I started building Youngest a club house in the attic of the garage... until I found all these other things that needed to be done... and realized I was exponentially sore all over from swinging the hammer...

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    1. Oooh!! How fun to have a club house in the attic of anything!! When you're done, you'll have to post pictures!

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  3. Wow you are so very busy! It's no wonder your head aches! *hugs* Glad your garden gave you lots to process! Ours did not. Hope the girls (and you) are feeling better!

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    1. Thanks, Abigail. :)

      We didn't get nearly as many tomatoes this year as we did last year, but then again we only had 4 plants this year and not 9! I'm not sure how many I'll have next year, but it's really been nice having the salsa we canned last year and the tomatoes to use when we needed them. Next year, I'm hoping we'll get a second or third little garden going, so we can have green beans and peas and carrots and potatoes and onions and....

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  4. I'm envious of your green thumb; mine is decidedly black. I brought home a bunch of plants from the school fair last month and slowly but surely I'm managing to kill each and every one. If, one day, I had to rely on the produce from my own garden to survive, I would surely starve.

    Hope your bout with the girls' bug was short-lived.

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  5. Shelly, I had that problem with some plants I brought back home from Mom's. I killed all but one, and it was very frustrating. I found out that a lot of it is likely due to the difference in altitude (we're over a mile high, and some plants just do not want to survive up here!), and the guy at the nursery said that it could have even been the difference in the PH of the water. So only one of my thumbs is green. The other is black as pitch. Just sayin'. :)




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