Categories: church, life, house
Date: 04 April 2012 15:08:13
You know, getting pregnant and giving birth would've been quicker than the process of getting this sitting room decorated!!
What started out nine months ago as a "Keep Japes Occupied" exercise over the summer when work dropped to half time hours until the new academic year began, looks like being completed tomorrow. If I'd not decided yesterday to re-do the ceiling, it could've been finished today, but all I've got to do tomorrow are the skirting board, the door frames and the meter cupboards.Yes, for some bizarre reason, both gas and electricity meters have their own little cupboards in a room that is, ooooh, 11 feet by 12 feet at most. They do add to the awkwardness of this room!
Still, I remind myself that there has been major structural work done in this room and it's a much nicer place to be, as a result. I also remind myself I am away from home for long hours, and work in what can be a physically, mentally and emotionally demanding job, and I've done a much better job of the decorating as a result of insisting I only do it when I'm home on weekdays, rather than wearing myself out by working on it every Saturday.
It's also been good to have the discipline of knowing I've been going out to the Holy Week Eucharists at church every evening, so I've had to stop and get cleared up, when I might've been tempted to keep going... and again, do a poor job because I was rushing.
So, tomorrow should see this job completed, and the ground floor of my home restored to order, just in time for the Triduum. Which was the plan.