Postby Harmony » Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:12 pm
That's a good question. Why I do the stuff I do in the house and recently all the paperwork cleaning out... is because I want my life to be easier. Sometimes I feel like I struggle against the constant work, the constant piles of paper and the work. So the push back against these things helps make my life easier.
Why I do so much stuff for DH, maybe I don't trust him completely. He'd let things slip for sure, the way he feels comfortable living is not the way I want to live. Why I continue to keep track of his medical stuff, his appointments, his Rx's... I don't want to live with the alternative.
Feels like a constant struggle though. I don't know how much progress I'm making with any of it. I just know that keeping on trying feels better than letting it all go.
(Twins). Who was it yesterday who said, "Men will be men". Yep. And I know what it feels like to be "pushed".
One more big folder gone through and sorted, throwing out of date stuff away. Took a couple hours.
DH called the range to my attention...yep, I knew it was coming. So all afternoon we worked on that. When he pulled it out I was instantly aware that cleaning what can be reached with the bottom drawer out is NOT the whole solution. There's the very edges beyond the sides of the drawer, the cabinet sides, the baseboards, the wall... and that took a lot of cleaning and scraping and rinsing.
We tackled the problem of the back burner not working...testing electric wires, etc. and we think the switches are good but the element is burned out and probably needs replaced. Expensive part.
I asked about us taking the front panel off so I could clean the inside of the window... so we tackled that and find that there are 4 panes of glass, and we could only access 3. Much scraping and washing and polishing and putting it all back together. Big job.
Asked about pulling the refrigerator out too so we tackled that next. Much vacuuming, scraping, washing, dusting, rinsing. All squeaky clean now. Except for the very top which I'll get with a ladder. Took all the pictures off the side and won't put them back. Some had fallen in the back.
So that's been my day.