My daily household project

I am out of treatment for the next month. At least. If all goes according to plan it'll be longer than that but I'll be having surgery. In the meantime with no work and no treatment to be going to, I have decided to tackle some home projects. I can use this time to spruce up my house. I want to paint the inside of my house. Clean up and work on my backyard so that I can enjoy sitting out back with my dogs. I want to work on the inside other than painting as well. I decided that I'll tackle these things one thing at a time. I have time since it doesn't seem like I'll be going back to work this year anyways. Today I started by painting the baseboards and door frames in my hallway. I had some extra white paint from when I painted my kitchen. I figured I'd start there and work my way around the house touching up all the white first. That way I have time to save up some money and do a little at a time while I also recoup my energy. I found a nice light soft green color for the living room. It'll brighten it up and I'll take down my blinds and replace them with gray curtains. It'll be much easier to take the curtains down and wash them instead of fighting with the blinds every time I need to clean them. I have photos that I want to put up on my walls. My little alcove that I want to turn into a little study with a cute little bookshelf and desk. My sister has a cute little end table that she left behind when she moved that she said I can have, which I was going to steal anyways and tomorrow my stepmom and I are picking up a bedroom set that comes with a desk. I am thinking of sanding down the desk and trying to match it to the color of the end table. Or maybe sand down both and match colors to both. Then there is the backyard that needs to be worked on. Desperately. It is horrible looking right now. It needs a good raking, my fence and house need to be pressure washed and I have patio bricks that need to be pressure washed as well. I am waiting on some money to come in and as soon as it does I am going to have someone come out and rake the yard. After that my stepdad is going to come out and pressure wash the house and the fence. I have been looking at gazebo tents and patio furniture to set up outside. Having four dogs they like to be outside but right now it's very hard to enjoy sitting outside because it's so trashed. I haven't felt well enough to keep up with it. My goal is that before I go in for surgery to have the inside of the house painted. That's the biggest thing. Then I am hoping that I can convince my stepdad and mom to do the curtains in the house and my stepmom to set up the patio while I am in the hospital during surgery. I have to be there for two weeks so I figure that's plenty of time. I also have a list of little things that need to be done. Little things that I can work on. These things will keep me busy so that I don't lose my mind while I am off. Also since I have so much time off if I am having a day that I am not feeling well then I don't have to worry cause well... I have nothing but time on my hands right now. I guess we will see exactly how handy I can be right?

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