Nothing exciting to report. No big adventures on the beautiful beaches. Sometimes life is the other kind of 'beach'. Naw, it isn't that bad. I'm just feeling a bit under the weather, I guess. It's been raining here most of the day and I've been fighting a sinus headache, so haven't accomplished much. I did fix us a decent meal a while ago (a really tasty macaroni salad and marinated steaks) and did dishes today--twice! I'm trying my best to stay on top of them. I also unpacked three medium-sized boxes of kitchen stuff and found homes for most of the items. I'm still so exhausted from the move that I can barely function. Any exertion, no matter how small it seems, still requires a long rest, so it is taking me a l-o-n-g time to get things done here. It also doesn't help that I don't want to unpack much until I get some painting done and furniture rearranged. So it's slow going. Poor Toad is having as hard a time as I am, or maybe an even harder time. He sleeps a lot more than I do, and is sleeping as I write this. But then, it's a sleepy kind of day today.
This afternoon Toad managed to cut out more of the nasty living room carpet and I helped bag the pieces to get them ready for the garbage pickup early Monday morning. Nearly half the carpet is up and out now, leaving bare plywood with stains but still looking less horrible than the carpet. We are going to paint the plywood floors with porch and floor paint and see how that looks and lasts, and may get a couple of inexpensive 5x7 rugs for the living room. I can hardly wait to get the walls and floor painted so that I can add books to the bookcases and put some pictures on the walls! I haven't yet decided on the living room wall color, but we chose a darkish brown--sort of a milk chocolate color--for the floor. It's supposed to be self-sealing. We'll see. With all these cats and Sadie we have to have something that will stand up to spills and hairballs and "accidents" and be fairly easy to maintain. Hopefully it will be a dry day tomorrow and I will feel up to starting the floor painting. I'm going to have to do it in small sections due to my tendency toward fatigue and the necessity of cordoning off the painted area so that the cats don't get into it. I'm going to try putting wire cages over the newly painted areas so that air will circulate but cats won't. Wish me luck with that! The paint is supposed to dry for 48 hours, so it will take several days to paint the living room floor. Hopefully it won't need two coats!
This evening I'm just sitting here catching up on some blogs that I follow and looking at ideas for decorating and for organizing stuff in the bathroom and kitchen--dreaming. Occasionally a car passes or Toad snores or one of the cats wakes up and decides to walk across the room. Otherwise it is very quiet here, save for the soothing droning of a fan, which is a relief for my aching head. I may have to give in and take something for this blasted sinus headache, but I don't like feeling all dried out from the over-the-counter sinus stuff. I've been making do with hot tea or broth every couple of hours to steam my head a bit.
Some people would be bored with this life, but the older I get the more content I become with living quietly. To live within our financial means required the huge upheaval that got us here to our own home in New Brunswick, but now we can unwind and monkey about at our own pace. We are finally able to feel at home and able to do, or not do, as we please. I don't know, maybe this will get old after a while and I will long for more excitement, but for now I am quite content. Life is good.
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