It's just before 7am Saturday morning. Martha just got in the shower. She's heading off to work. Not sure how long she'll be working today. Since Sandy is coming to visit next week, Martha wants to make sure her desk is pretty caught up. Throw in the past week of meetings and she's fallen behind where she'd like to be. It's kinda funny how not every one feels the same way about their work-load. Guess that's just one of the differences that we have as individuals.
I've got plenty of stuff to do around the house. I don't have an intense desire to vacuum extensively but that will probably be happening as we wish to use our new steam cleaner on the carpets. I know they could use more than just vacuuming and they will look a lot better afterwards. I've got yard work to do today. Want to try to stay on top of the leaves, especially since the city will be picking them up sometime next week or so. Also, I would love to get my office clean and organized. I am very sick and tired of the way it looks. There's no excuse. Just plain laziness.
We had the insulation installed in the attic yesterday. It went very smoothly. I didn't have the attic cleaned of every thing. The workers were willing to help get the garbage out of it, so it didn't take as long as if I would have done it myself. I appreciated the help. The garbage is now stacked outside next to the gate in the backyard. I've got someone lined up to pick it up on Sunday afternoon. That will be good to have that gone in another day.
Woke up this morning and the house is definitely warmer than usual in the morning. Even the granite in the kitchen doesn't feel as cold as it seemed to. I'm wondering if maybe we didn't get too much insulation. We still have the underside of the house to be insulated as the guys are back on Monday and Tuesday to go into the crawl space and work down there. I keeping positive thoughts in my mind and hoping that goes as smooth as yesterday.
After the guys were done in the afternoon, I went over to the bowling alley and signed up as a single, for a bowling league. The league is on Wednesday afternoon's from roughly 4:30 to 6:15. It's three people teams. The league has already started. I believe they've bowled for 5 weeks. So I'll be joining a team of two. Should be a great way to meet some people and just get out of the house for some good positive fun. I'm excited about it.
I didn't do much else yesterday as I was just staying around the house while the workers were working in the attic. I don't feel very comfortable leaving strange people alone in the house. But I just sat around and did a little reading. Watched some tv. And played on the computer. Pretty much just a lazy day. But it felt good. Didn't obsessed about anything. Didn't have any thoughts about my addiction. Just a lazy day away from my addiction. I'm happy to know I can have them. Yesterday makes it two days this month that I spent away from my addiction. Yeaaaa!!!!!
I've also got to do some more work in my 90 Prep workbook. I've got to keep pressing forward on this recovery work. It is difficult to do but it is very important to me and I know it's a good thing. It is truly making me think about a lot. Not just my past but also about the time of person I want to be. It's making constantly reflect about my actions and questioning those actions that are negative. I know there's a better Kevin inside of me. He's being reshaped, remolded, remodeled and renovated. He's going to come out bigger, stronger, better, wiser. Ready and able to conquer the world in a positive, loving way. I am feeling better about my life. Yes, I'm not working. But we're surviving financially. Eating our savings a little but we'll make it. I am really trying to make this time work for me.
One other good thing that came out of the insulation workers helping me clean out the attic, was the finding of a few things that Martha and I will be be artistic with and put up in the backyard or some where else. When this big copper pipe was pulled out of the attic, I immediately thought of my inner artist and having fun with the pipe. Martha thought we might be able to use it outside to hang some planters from. I kinda like that idea. They'll just have to be small planters because of the weight issues. But I like it. I might go find a small plant or two this morning and see if I can get that done today before she gets home.
Martha has just taken off for work and my mind is pretty empty of thoughts right now. I don't feel like writing completely mundane thoughts over and over so I'm going to call it quits here and start the day. Carpe Diem!! Did I spell that right?
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