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Okay, so the cleaning/organizing and "list making"/"list crossing through" continues ...
Tasks completed yesterday:
- Finally got all my curtains hung! (hey ... give me a break ... I *just* moved Labor Day 2007)
- Hung most of my pictures ... should finish today
- Unloaded some more crap on craigslist
- Cleaned my closet some more and made a pile of stuff to craigslist/eBay/freecycle ... (damnit - this crossed off one "to-do", and created another)
- Picked up my K-Dur rx (for some reason, my potassium came back low on the pre-op blood work)
- Stocked up on mindless, trashy fiction! (My friend Courtney borrowed about 50 books for me from a family friend who runs one of those permanent garage sale places)
- Repotted a few plants, gave 'em all a good soak, finally finished hanging 5 terracotta wall planters that have been taunting me (unhung, in a box) for years
- Cussed out a few people who have tried to make demands on my time - and tried to impart guilt over my absence - during this prep process (I liken this pressure to that of when my son's on leave ... "If they want to see you, they can come to YOU!")
- Cussed out at least one more who tried to tell me "You're sleeping a lot. You need Lexapro."
- Spent considerable time under my desk ... tie-wrapping cords, mounting a co-ax splitter from the cable connection behind my bed so I can have a TV in my room after surgery (this concept still disturbs me greatly ...)
- Executed my Medical Power of Atty/DNR
- Spent an hour on the phone - with a few airlines - making sure my 20 year old Marine son received proper retroactive frequent flyer credit (no ... this was NOT on the list)
- Thought about doing my taxes. Really.
Today's tasks?
- Cook. (I'm so freakin' tired of this as a daily "to-do". Enough with the cooking ... there are some pretty damn good TV dinners out there I hear, and I'm feeling the itch for a culinary adventure ...)
- Hope it finally stops raining so I can paint the few remaining things on my list (furniture, pic frames, a few small shelves). This is only important to me because I have NO space to hide the crap, and "looking at piles of unfinished things" is not on my recovery to-do list ...
- Give the dog a bath. Sounds simple enough, but it takes at least 3 full sized adults to keep him from ricocheting off the bathroom walls like a canine basketball. This entails a hose, and leashing the dog to a tree in the back yard (he's fine with a bath outside) ...
- Finish changing all the light bulbs in my house (11' ceilings, a few are already out, and everyone knows they all go at once. My luck? They'll all go out - every single one - 2 minutes after the person who brings me home from the hospital departs ...)
- Return the 8' ladder to the OUTSIDE of the house (another unexpected addition to the "to-do"'s ... drats)
- Review the recalcitrant tasks I can only do on a weekday, and only remember on a weekEND (i.e., the handicapped placard ...)
- Think about doing my taxes. Really.
Tasks completed yesterday:
- Finally got all my curtains hung! (hey ... give me a break ... I *just* moved Labor Day 2007)
- Hung most of my pictures ... should finish today
- Unloaded some more crap on craigslist
- Cleaned my closet some more and made a pile of stuff to craigslist/eBay/freecycle ... (damnit - this crossed off one "to-do", and created another)
- Picked up my K-Dur rx (for some reason, my potassium came back low on the pre-op blood work)
- Stocked up on mindless, trashy fiction! (My friend Courtney borrowed about 50 books for me from a family friend who runs one of those permanent garage sale places)
- Repotted a few plants, gave 'em all a good soak, finally finished hanging 5 terracotta wall planters that have been taunting me (unhung, in a box) for years
- Cussed out a few people who have tried to make demands on my time - and tried to impart guilt over my absence - during this prep process (I liken this pressure to that of when my son's on leave ... "If they want to see you, they can come to YOU!")
- Cussed out at least one more who tried to tell me "You're sleeping a lot. You need Lexapro."
- Spent considerable time under my desk ... tie-wrapping cords, mounting a co-ax splitter from the cable connection behind my bed so I can have a TV in my room after surgery (this concept still disturbs me greatly ...)
- Executed my Medical Power of Atty/DNR
- Spent an hour on the phone - with a few airlines - making sure my 20 year old Marine son received proper retroactive frequent flyer credit (no ... this was NOT on the list)
- Thought about doing my taxes. Really.
Today's tasks?
- Cook. (I'm so freakin' tired of this as a daily "to-do". Enough with the cooking ... there are some pretty damn good TV dinners out there I hear, and I'm feeling the itch for a culinary adventure ...)
- Hope it finally stops raining so I can paint the few remaining things on my list (furniture, pic frames, a few small shelves). This is only important to me because I have NO space to hide the crap, and "looking at piles of unfinished things" is not on my recovery to-do list ...
- Give the dog a bath. Sounds simple enough, but it takes at least 3 full sized adults to keep him from ricocheting off the bathroom walls like a canine basketball. This entails a hose, and leashing the dog to a tree in the back yard (he's fine with a bath outside) ...
- Finish changing all the light bulbs in my house (11' ceilings, a few are already out, and everyone knows they all go at once. My luck? They'll all go out - every single one - 2 minutes after the person who brings me home from the hospital departs ...)
- Return the 8' ladder to the OUTSIDE of the house (another unexpected addition to the "to-do"'s ... drats)
- Review the recalcitrant tasks I can only do on a weekday, and only remember on a weekEND (i.e., the handicapped placard ...)
- Think about doing my taxes. Really.
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