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Friday, July 25, 2008
Order in the court!!
Those who know me very likely know that I like an orderly, structured approach. I shamelessly suggest that I like doing things God's way. During creation, God did stuff one day at a time. Sure, he did quite a bit per day, but he didn't start any tasks and run out of time to finish them.
Unfortunately, when it comes to my approach to home-projects, I don't stick to God's example of working for six days, then resting one. I'm more likely to work real hard for two days, then take 3 months off to recuperate. So, admittedly, I probably don't get as much done as say, my wife - who takes a whole different approach.
Whereas I like to mentally psych myself up and plan for getting something done with enough time to finish it all up, then clean up and get life back to "normal" (where there is a place for everything and everything is in it's place), Jenny takes the shotgun approach of jumping in with both feet and using the time that is currently available.
Hence the relative chaos in our house, conveniently timed to coincide with Jenny's weekend trip out of town to take her mom shopping for her 60th birthday.
I came home for lunch today and my bride decided to get started on painting the entryway and the hallway up the stairs. Betty (Jen's mom) came in to help out. They have only a few hours to work on it, as we are all going out tonight to Nagasaki to eat for Betty's birthday. It will be interesting to see to what conditions I shall arrive when getting home from work today. Jen's theory is that taking all the trim work off around the doors will spur me into action on getting new interior doors installed (something that I definitely want to do, but on my schedule and fitting into my idea of how it fits in with our outflow of funds.) Taking all the trim off is a good idea as it makes painting much easier - so no big deal. I just wonder if it will still be sitting in the frequently-barefoot-traveled area of our back porch when I get home from work in time to change to go out to eat dinner tonight. I don't like disorder. At all.
Due to the recent purchase and delivery of our new living room furniture, I've already chosen to write off our "toy room / homeschool supplies room" as it currently houses our old furniture (which is ever-so-patiently awaiting it's departure at the next garage sale), as well as lots of junk, water balloons, board-game pieces, Magnetix, cat and dog hair and dwarf hamster/gerbil food dispersed about the hard-to-reach areas. I just pretend this room no longer exists. It helps me.
While I was home for lunch, eating some pizza and watching Jenny and Betty slave away, Emily asks, "What's that wife stuff on the side of the couch?"
Our golden retriever Glory had rubbed up against some of the wet paint, getting it all over her right side. Then she decided to rub the wet paint from her fur up against our new leather couch. Fun times. Jenny and I, mostly Jenny, worked on getting the paint off and it came off fairly well thanks to Spot-Shot.
The jury is still out on how well Jenny was able to get the maraschino cherries juice out of the carpet from last night. Jacob took the jar in the loving room and was eating them at the coffee table. He didn't get the lid back on tightly enough to prevent the juice from spilling out onto the carpet when Emily moved the coffee table, turning the jar over. Of course, none of our three darling children noticed the turned-over jar of RED juice (no need to even go into how many times Jenny has told them, as well as anyone else who is ever at our house - NO red stuff in the living room!) The baby-sitter noticed it sitting there while straightening up after the movie was over and had put the kids in bed.
C'est la vie.
This diatribe is what comes of me being pretty well caught up at work. Mayhap I need more to do.
7/25/2008 02:46:00 PM by Todd Bacon
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