1) Complete 12 Home Improvement Projects
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| New LED fixture at the bottom of the stairs. |
This month? Middle Child repainted the cinder block wall in the basement around the water pipes where we had the big leak over the summer. Husband went after the very moldy walls in the master bathroom with bleach. We need to completely tear out that drywall and replace it - but that's a couple of steps down on the repair list from where we are right now.
The list to date:
Recover the kitchen chairs.
Add the knobs to the cabinet under the kitchen sink.
Fix the sewer line out of the house, through the basement wall.
Replace the baseboard heater in the hall bathroom.
Replace the lighting in the hall bathroom.
Re-enamel the hallway bathroom tile.
Replace the light at the bottom of the basement stairwell.
2) Lose a few more inches around my waist.
Honestly, I wanted to lose 2-3 inches. How hard can that be? As it turns out, pretty darn hard!
I think I've lost almost an inch. I'm keeping a record, but I'm quietly ignoring it this month! My clothes are a little loose on me, so I think that's a good sign!
Done!
The first trip was a long weekend to visit our oldest child at school. (OK, that's a maybe..)
Second was the long weekend we spent in Princeton - he was up there for business, and I went up there for a long weekend at our own expense at the end of his official business. We've got one more week coming up.. sadly, it's to go out to a Memorial Service in Colorado, but we're going to enjoy spending time alone and with family.
5) Post at least 12 book reviews on my Books for Teens Blog
9 Down! You can see my blog here:
https://librarynut-booksforteens.blogspot.com/
9 years after the long nightmare began, we now have 2 working bathrooms in our house!
The moratorium is over! End of May, and we can spend money on unnecessary things again. For now, that means I can pay for some plants for landscaping in the front. Bigger picture, I am saving again in order to build our emergency savings fund back up to where I like to have it.
8) Learn another language.
So, I've got the CD's in my car, and I've been listening to them. I'm watching Sesame Street in Spanish. I don't know if I will ever be fluent, but at least I'm trying.
9) 100 Things Every Marylander Should Do
I was hoping to knock off a few of these this year. Not all 100, but maybe five more of them? I really need to get my act together! Maybe if I ever get more than one day off of work this summer.
10) Daughter's Quilt
Progress! I am making big progress!
11) Clean Out Closet and Dresser Drawers
I really need to get back to this. I've been trying to pack up oldest child's stuff and move it down into the basement so that middle child can move into the room - and LIVE in that room - until he saves enough money to move out on his own.
12) Clean Out the Little Room in the Basement and Make it Usable
I've made very little progress on cleaning this out over the past month. I don't know how much progress I'm going to make on the actual remodeling of it considering how much money we've already spent this year. I'm going to add cleaning and painting this room to the list of jobs for middle child to do. (BTW, I am paying him for the work he's doing.)
13) Work on Landscaping the Front Yard
Sadly, I got a head start on this when the plumber pulled out one of the big bushes in front of the house. Now, I have only 4 overgrown bushes to take care of in the front yard. I've got Tiger's Memorial Garden in the back yard, and I'm not planning on doing any more landscaping until Fall.
I finished the class! I submitted two of the lessons that I wrote, and they have been approved as library programs for this summer! Hooray! It's going to be a great summer! Even better? I got a few more CEU's to add to the total number of hours I need to renew my teaching certificate.
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