And another wacky day-night in teaganville...
Technically its night to everyone else... to me its another day... Its 4.30 in the morning on sunday here.. I only woke up at 4 pm yesterday afternoon after sleeping for twelve hours because of a lack of sleep on thursday night and work on friday afternoon... I was wrecked... but no matter how much I tried I couldn't sleep... and its happened again tonight... Im sort of sleepy.. but not tired enough to go to sleep with the background music of mike playing the xbox because he couldnt sleep because he's not used to sleeping so late, and he refuses to get up before me on a weekend because its the only time he doesnt have to... men *sigh*
But anyway, I'm taking a break at the moment from finally getting around to finishing the house... not that I have much choice in the matter... mum's due down here next saturday (originally it was going to be a week from monday) so this is our last weekend before she gets here, and I thought it might be better for her not to have to try and sleep on a bed with a mountain of clothes... if she can get to it past the obstacle course of boxes in the spare room... so We're digging into it this weekend... I would have done more earlier, but I got distracted by refinishing a side table, which I've been meaning to do for years... it seems to be a trend with me... last day off I had, I called a sickie with work, because frankly, it was too hot, I hadnt had a sickie in ages, and If I'd gone to work that day I would have had a mental breakdown...
But anyway... I had that day off... and got stuck into the house, thinking *maybe on my day off I may get a part of the mountain of work done*, so I go into the spare room thinking of putting away some of the clothes... I get distracted by some of the boxes with stuff for the loungeroom... so I go into the loungeroom to think of where I wanted to put the stuff... I get distracted by the mantlepiece thinking Id like to put some of my candles and one of my plants on it, and its filthy, so I get my cleaning cloth and spray out of the kitchen and set to work... and I get distracted by some stains that wont come out... so I try scrubbing for a little while, and they still didnt come out... so me with my carpenter diy craze, go and pull out my paint stripper and scrapers and sandpapers and wood stains etc etc etc... spend the rest of the afternoon refinishing the mantlepiece... with breaks for a quick drink, cig and checkup on email... before I know it, the day is gone, the lounge isn't unpacked, the clothes are still in a mountain on the spare bed, and I find the only thing I've done is the mantlepeice.... such is my life....
today... I got distracted by the side table thats been outside on the back porch waiting to be bugsprayed for the spiders it picked up in the shed in our old place... the stain on it was patchy and the previous clear coat was all but gone... so Im straight out to the garage with it, (and my trusty diy carpenter tools) and I spend the entire day refinishing it, in between watching a movie with mike and doing a little grocery shopping... once again, such is my life... I get distracted too easily... but the way I figure.. is that Im up anyway, Im not going to be sleeping tonight, so I may as well finish the house today... the great thing about it, is that when Im sleepy, Im harder to distract and tend to do monotonous tasks quite well because I dont have to think so hard about what Im doing...
But anyway, speaking of distraction... I think I might put some music on and get to it :D hope you all have a great weekend...
