Doing cleaning up still, and enjoying myself despite being in a lot of pain. (Right sinus is mega-irritated; if I breathe pain lances down to my teeth, if I don't breathe it the sinus itself hurts sharply.) I woke up this morning in a wonderful mood for the first time in recent memory, despite having a long nightmare about miniature jumping snakes in my house! (I have no fear of snakes, yet I have horrible dreams about them attacking me on a regular basis. WTF?)
This is also my 1,000th post since restarting the blog last August! :-)
I'm abusing the dishwasher again...the wicker cat beds were seriously dirty, there's no way I could (or would) wash in between all of those damned nooks/crannies, and I can't put them in the clothes washing-machine, so the next thought was the dishwasher. *snicker* By an amazing coincidence, the big cat bed fits perfectly on the lower deck, and the small one fits nicely on the top. I already washed all of the kitty blankets last night, so I have some happy happy felines.
I also repaired my bedside lamp. It's from the 50s, used to be my father's when he was a little boy, and I just generally like the way it looks. The "gold" balls that serve as feet had all fallen off except one, so I yanked the remaining one off and replaced all of them with shapely bits of wood from the crafts store a while back. Then the gold trim at top & bottom of the shade was coming off, so the latest project was to glue it back on. Now all I need to do is stain the new feet with an appropriately-colored paint marker, and it will be perfect. I might yank the gold ball feet off its twin lamp and replace those with identical wooden feet so they match. I love those lamps, and I should tell my father that sometime. He'd be pleased. :-)
What else... Ah! I dumped a decrepit toaster oven, as well as an air-cleaner that no longer worked. Also resurrected another childhood air-cleaner, covered the top filter with a pillowcase and have it working all of the dust out of its system. The white-noise hum, along with the total silence otherwise, is very soothing. I'm really surprised...not having the television on in the background here has made me so happy and productive, it's like being a totally different person. I'll have to talk to my mother about that when she returns tomorrow night...
Just got an email from Bennie, one of the people I've utterly failed to write back in months. I'm very happy about that -- I've been wondering what he has been up to, missing our old email sessions. *bounces* I am going to write him back in a few minutes, along with Jeanette and a few other friends I owe letters to. Mmm, I like the Internet! I like being happy! I like being a crazy cat lady all alone in a big house with only the sound of a misused dishwasher and air-cleaner! LOL
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