Postby Kathryn-in-Canada » Fri Mar 16, 2018 9:33 am
Not a great sleep last night on the couch. I did get some solid sleep between 12 and 4 because I heard the clock strike midnight and got up to the bathroom (which turned out to be required so I'm glad I went!) and then when it struck 4, I was surprised it was 4 bongs. I should have stopped the clock.
I still have a mild headache. In addition I was so sore, I fell out of 'bed.' When I went to get up from the couch, my legs just buckled under me. I stayed there until dh came to spot me while I stood up. After that I was fine. It was as if my legs weren't awake.
The bedroom was ready by 8 but dh wasn't. The painters arrived at 8:15 and are still trying to get working. There are 4 of them so quite the team but only a couple have English. They are still looking for our paint colour downstairs. I know there a big bucket of it so gave them the name and colour codes.
They also spotted the work to be done in the living room. I pointed out my desk and that there is no place to move it until the excess furniture is out so they'll be back in April to do the rest of the apartment. I'm still not sure how we'll do the office since there's no room to move everything along the window wall, it is the recumbent bike, the giant treadmill and a small desk. The desk will sort-of fit in the kitchen, the bike might be able to be moved to the bedroom and then we can wiggle the treadmill to the space occupied by the desk. But that's going to require manpower. I hate to stretch this one more visit, so if I can get the work done while dh is away in May, that would be best, but the office is deaf to all requests to coordinate with the tenant (for instance, sending the plasterer here a day early even though their own notice to enter showed the following day.)
The office thinks they are all done but they aren't. When I went in, I said the work couldn't be done until after the furniture was moved out but of course, they did not listen to me.
Harmony: The plasterers put down disposable drop cloths, taped to the wall to catch the chipped off plaster. Those were gathered up and put into a garbage bag before coming through the rest of the apartment. They also swept, wiped down (mostly) the baseboards (I know because I left the dust on them from behind the dresser and it was gone yesterday afternoon) and then mop the floors.
Despite all that, the dust flies everywhere and is a mess to be cleaned up. I'm treating this a deep cleaning of the room and when it is all done, I'll do a deep clean of the parts (like behind the bed) that didn't get deep cleaned because of this work. Then I'll leave it until the next time there's plaster work. It happens almost annually so that's good enough for my cleaning schedule!
When I cleaned the windows the cloths were almost black so I obviously skipped them last time (I know I've done them since moving in 4 years ago.) The kitchen ones were not bad at all, despite using the deep fryer in front of one. But I do clean that one before hanging up the Christmas decorations and lights in that window. The other was a bit dirtier because I skipped it in November but the transom was also almost clean since I had done that before putting up the snowflake window stickers.
I have more of a spark for the sermon (I've been doing reading this morning) and the music is all set and the 'new' hymn is learned. It is actually Precious Lord Take My Hand except for the last line with is the last line from Amazing Grace. The credited composer is the same as Precious Lord, so that part wasn't 'stolen', just the last line. Once we identified that, we were all set and can sing it with confidence.