A LIttle Bit of Progress

I was off to a slow start today. 

Yes, I know I spend too much time on the laptop.  But I do check on newsy items with FB and Dotti's and email.  Then I was chatting / texting with my sister and Krysten Hinkle.   Then I was checking some things online - like paint sales for the 4th and possible deals I might get on some items for the new house.  It all takes time.

Move to the kitchen.  I made tuna macaroni salad today for Gary.  It is something I made when I was growing up.  Not sure who started it, but I remember Grandma Greta making it, then Mom making it, and I made it because it was easy and good.  It is a perfect summer meal paired with baked bean, chips, and iced tea.  I like mine with chopped up green olives, but Gary prefers sweet pickle relish added to it.  Because he has been putting up with a lot from me lately (buying the house, looking for appliances, picking out paint colors), I deferred to him and added in pickle relish.  It was a good lunch and we have enough for tomorrow too.

I cleaned off the dining room table, cleaned out my purse, threw away bunches of papers and trash, and re-filled my pill containers.  In the process I found the Direct TV bill which I had not yet paid and it was due on June 18.  Yikes!  I knew what happened.  With buying the house, the Memorial Day weekend, ball games, babysitting, packing for vacation, going to Michigan, and hitting the ground running since our return, I had forgotten to pay it.  And I usually pay the bills the day they arrive or in the first couple of days after.  After I wrote out the checks for Direct TV and Verizon Wireless, we took a drive to Winamac so I could drop them in the outdoor box that has pick up at 5.  Whew. 

My plans for cleaning out things didn't work very well upstairs, mainly because it was so hot.  I did, however, clean out the cheese box by my recliner.  I cleared things off the top of it (things that I put there to use at some time or another).  Then I went through the drawers in the coffee table and the lamp table by Gary's recliner.  A little bit of trash, but a lot more for the Yard Sale pile.

I look around the living room and really there isn't too much left to purge.  I cleaned off the bookshelves in November.  I cleaned out the icebox not too long ago and honestly?  It hasn't been in our home that long to even become cluttered.  Grandpa Henderson's table is filled with Dad's memorabilia and I had cleaned off the shadowbox above it.  The main shadowbox just needs to be packed up.  There may be some things behind the couch to go through. The cabinets under the window seat need to be cleaned out . Then there is the entertainment center and I am not sure what will happen to all of the movies in it. 

The kitchen is kind of the same way.  I cleaned out the Amish cabinet, the wash stand, and the hutch before Thanksgiving along with the closet.  The kitchen cabinets may need some work, but not too much.  Just a matter of packing and moving. 

The bathroom?  We did that one a few weeks ago, before we knew we were buying a house.  Just on general principles.  Just because things were falling out of it when we opened the doors.

The fireplace room is not in too bad of shape.  I may need to go through the cabinet and the tall shelves in the corner.  I might so something with all of the red white and blue items since that will not be the main focus in any of the rooms.

But the upstairs?  Major work needed there.

Then the infamous Blue Bedroom. 

And the garage.

Ugh.

Work in progress.  It will take time.  But we should make some headway tomorrow and Thursday IF the rain cools off the temps.

Being without AC is tough.