I guess while at church the “housemate came in and he must have seen the work done but I was not here to see his reaction-damn!

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Should be an interesting day since the Housemate from hell is returning- Interesting how my opinion of him has changed in the past two weeks. I know I busted my “butt” doing my very best to get things in order which is harder than he has at least at this address- I am sure he works harder for others who represent higher salaries.

Going to church today and plan to basically take it easy for this day -I may paint (pictures) and watch a movie hopefully a love story or comedy or even better yet a really good mystery or two. Did you ever see the movie the “Game” that one threw me I did not know what was going on until the end.

Happy birthday to the (old) love of my life Michael-he is 61 today if in fact he is still alive. He is the one I left so he could get on with his life-I could see t he hand writing on the wall and it would have ended anyway and perhaps on a sadder note. Funny how relationships are: you meet, become blinded by “love” and in the beginning all is wonderful until the proverbial “honeymoon” is over. I was the funniest and sexiest at first but at the end I had a strange sense of humor according to him. I did not change just his perception of who I was. One example of my humor: I put a live lobster in his mail box positioned on a bag of ice with a card that read Happy Birthday-“eat me”. I laughed all of the way home. This was after I moved out. I was hoping to engage his feelings again but as they say “let it go if it was truly yours it will return to you” the addendum that is not in that original quote goes “if it doesn’t then shoot it down”!

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I am absolutely amazed at the amount of work I have accomplished this week!  I set out to paint my bedroom and have accomplished that and much more.  This morning I got up at 530 had coffee and painted a small ugly little stand which was a mustard color and very worn.  It is now a lovely dark chocolate brown and will match my other stand which holds the TV.  I also sprayed the two gold colored worn and rusted lamps one a floor and the other a table lamp.  They are now a lovely shade of bronze.  After smelling the fumes from the rustoleum on the baseboard overnight I decided to op for outdoors.  The fumes themselves are tolerable but the pilot light on the furnace was burning off the fumes causing me a headache.  It brought back memories of childhood when my grandmother would varnish the floors each autumn.  We had a gas cooking stove and the same obnoxious odor was carried throughout the house- but the compensation was the apple pie which she also cooked while waiting for the floor to dry.:) My Housemate is certain to be shocked when he arrives home Sunday to see what has been accomplished by me in less time than he has for his efforts.  To think he is being paid –my friend does not seem to think he should be docked for the work I did nor does she seem to think that I should take the cost off my rent.  I will be seriously pissed if he gets the original figure for all of the work.  I would paint the living room baseboard if he wants but not until fall when I can open all of the windows to air it smell out.  My baseboard looks like new and it is beautiful (if I do say so myself).  Well at 68 I am not a crippled yet in fact the more I do the more I am motivated to do.  I took the sofa and loveseat cushion covers off and washed them with the stain remover from QVC which seems to work great without washing (on the arms of the furniture)..  Today I am having my blinds hung and the work is done except for the floor.  Alleluia!  All of this in five days do you believe it- I am one determined mama jama-right?

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Today I am planning to touch up the window trim since the kid I hired did a so-so job.  I have to also climb the ladder and touch up the areas where the roller left little sponge like surfaces unpainted.  The blinds have to be reattached and again the “dreaded ladder”.  Man my dearie air is feeling like I have been to the gym.  I think I am also going to make an apt for the Aspen Dental to schedule the dental work I need and have been side stepping for too long.  All of this adds up to taking care of ME.  This work is long overdue and all a part of respecting me.

  The only thing left to do with regard to my living space is to paint and remove the carpet in the ante room between the closet and bathroom.  That is not as bothersome to me as the living and sleeping quarters.  When my housemate comes back he can lay the laminate and the room is complete.  It is fresh and bright and welcoming and no longer feels like a room for punishment when I am in there.  I would like to do a few other things too like bifold doors for the area previously mentioned to keep the closet and other confined-it will make the room look move complete and definitely more dramatic.  I would like to do that side of the room with white barn wood paneling at least half way up and shelving on the upper half.  Got to say this has actually made me very happy an emotion missing for too long.  I just chatter like a magpie incessantly like a child.  It feels like Christmas and my inner child is really wired. 

Well got to get my motor running lots of plans and need to do while the energy flow is still up to “full” on the scale (like reading the car gas tank).

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I was not kidding about the surgery it was a big fat nothing but the after effects are just plain annoying.  I have had blurred vision until the dilating meds wore off and then blurred because my old glasses in that eye were stronger to accommodate the cataracts.  The eye drops are another confusing thing and I made my own calendar to insure the correct regime.  My 1 day checkup was great and I asked to schedule me for the next eye a.s.a.p.  I am now tentatively scheduled as a reserve for the 15^th of August-cannot wait.  One thing however regarding the drops: the $42 bottle is about ¾ of an inch by ½ inch by ¼ inch.  That being said I lost it, cannot find it and had to buy another L  It will probably turn up after all is over.  I can drive (with caution since the glasses are making that eye blurry) and am seriously wondering how I will drive with two blurry eyes? I guess without glasses.  I do not know.  It takes a couple of weeks to be reevaluated for new prescription so it should be interesting.  One thing they told me is you may likely see different color in the post op eye-okay so I got up to the bathroom and looked at the white floor and saw yellow again ok.  Then something occurred to me  and I felt it – the dog urinated on the floor.  I think this whole thing has her very upset and confused.  Yesterday she did it again but I did not see it and bare footed I went sliding across the floor and flat on my back.  I am sure the new lens must think this is a fun new home.

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The procedure was absolutely nothing- I fully expected to have some degree of discomfort but not even a pinch-nothing.  It took about at best 15 minutes then post op instructions and bye bye.  Talk about ante-climax the buildup was more dramatic than the surgery.  I was so hyped I got up at 4am and ready by 645am..  I am so glad I did this and now will be more ready for the other one in a month or so.

It was certainly a great move for me in the area of taking care of me, myself and I.I have a couple of other areas for physical care  and should plan to get to it

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I have been so very busy doing things to both prepare for surgical procedure and to finish my bedroom (which is also something I have designated as a pre surgery deadline).  Today I advertised for someone to remove my old carpet and padding and haul away- I had a variety of offers the highest $250 to $40-hymph let’s see which one did I chose. 🙂 The lowest which happened to be a carpet specialist on leave from the service- I could not pay him $40 but the work he did included dismantling my waterbed head board –heavy!  I did pay him $100 and he is returning to touch up the spots I missed  yesterday and do the trim too- very nice young man with a young family.  It is so wonderful to have this work done and when “His Nibs” returns all he will need to do is lay laminate flooring.  I am sure he will be shocked to see the work done- as I said before I am Scorpio and I happen to be slow to anger but when I have had enough then I do not play!  I have been more than patient and I hope this work sends him a very strong message “Homey don’t play that!”.  I am so ready to get to the outpatient facility (730am) and get medication for a restful sleep- I do not care what they do.

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I am one day and counting until I will be able to have improved vision.  I am anticipating this with excitement and reserve (fear).  In preparation I knew that the heavy things I wanted to accomplish this week (while my housemate is on vacation) had to be completed prior to surgery.  That being said my first goal was to paint my OWN bedroom instead of waiting for him to get around to it.  Yesterday I calculated and bought 1 gal of paint the kind that is all in one.  One coat would be about all I can muster at 68 and physically challenged.  I started by moving all of the heavy furniture away from the walls and dusting them down (spiders beware)!  Then I investigated what and where I could get the paint I desired and thank God it was at Lowe’s about one-two miles away.  I went with paint info in hand and as hard as it was chose a color, bought paint and tools and returned home.  Then, I patiently did the “cutting in” for the entire room.  Once that was done it was time to roll away the faded gray/blue color.  In all it took me about 3 hours to paint and clean up but even though not the best (a little sloppy) job in the world the bulk of the painting is done.  WOW I now have a semi-gloss salmon colored bedroom which when the afternoon sun shines thru is a warm glowing and welcoming color –exactly what I wanted.  I was not sure I had chosen the color best for me until it was done and then I knew it was.  Now I was pooped but feeling great at my autonomy.  I fully expected to be as if turned to stone today but not at all true, just a twinge here and a minor one at that.  It is not a perfect job and it still needs a touch ups or two like where the ceiling got a touch of salmon or two.  The carpet is going so that was not a concern and the trim is a less strenuous task with no deadlines.  I also bought a roll of the painting tape to protect the areas where trim will be painted to protect the beautiful color.  Money permitting I would like to replace the flooring also before he returns-just because!

It is part of my “respect yourself move” and I am certainly more confident with each accomplishment and as before more empowered too.

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People power can control the economy not by violence or picketing but by shopping and becoming informed.  We (there are how many more of us than them-99%:1%) elect and/or hire representatives to protect and preserve our economy, health, education, rights, jobs and so on.  Our officials should be held accountable for their decisions and actions.  If the 1% could not provide them with such extensive financial backing they would owe them much less.  It is reasonable to consider that limits for campaign contributions must again be controlled and limited.  Again I think it should be one dollar to one dollar: for every dollar donated one dollar should go for a worthy cause.  Who is to say what that cause should be?  Perhaps it should go to encourage the American –home based companies who need help more than the large corporations.

I think that WE should demand change and accountability!

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Do you think that the population of the US would be more inclined to by American if information of such products were more widely known?  Perhaps we need those in “the know” to prepare lists on both sides of the subject to make marketing easier.  The mom who has a number of children or one on a time budget will not have the concentration to stop and read each and every product while shopping but if a list is available she could make her lists out ahead of time.  It is for certain that if a boycott on Wal-Mart were to take place the loss in profits should speak loudly but the problem is to make people aware that they are the contributing force behind outsourcing.

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