If You Make a List it Will Get Done

As like many many people, I have more ideas than I have time…and money to do them all. So, I need to prioritize. Things that NEED be done (like projects that have been started but not finished), things that SHOULD be done (yard projects, closet organization and the like), and then things I WANT to do (furniture pieces, decorating projects, crafty stuff).

The first thing on my list is the bathroom ‘update’ downstairs. It has been started and is in the throws of the re-mudding process to cover up the horrible texture left there by the ‘flipper’. It seriously looked like a topographical map of the French Alps; walk to close to the wall and your arm would be cut open by a sharp peak of poorly applied texture. So, were sanding it down, putting dry wall mud over the entire wall and ceiling, sanding again and painting. Easy enough, just not ‘fun’.

Then there is the trim in the basement windows. When we remodeled the basement (2 years ago!) we never got around to COMPLETELY finishing the trim. We cut the pieces and placed them, but didn’t finish nailing them in, caulking them and painting. Again, not hard, but not fun either. This project will probably take another 2 years to finish.

Then there is the deck railing. This is a rather important one, as it is the railing on the 2nd story deck. Two of the support posts need to be replaced since they have split and summer bbq season is coming. This one is reallllllly low on my fun meter, and there IS a railing on the deck so take this as a warning…the railing is loose, don’t lean on it!

Then there is the Should Do projects. We really should get dirt in those planter boxes we made. This is a time sensitive Should Do, since last I checked the earth is still rotating around the sun, slightly shifting its access, and changing the seasons from grow-stuff-spring to too-late-to-grow-stuff-summer. Gotta get on that.

I also REALLY want to put one of those closet systems in our office. Our house was built in 1948 when people must have either run around naked, or only wore one outfit because thats all the closets would hold. Literally they are the width of one standard door. Their size leaves little for fashion re-discovery. There is no “Oh wow, I dont remember getting this” or “Ah ha, I found it!” because the closet is so small its impossible to lose anything in its deep pockets of darkness. Because of the super small space, we had to get one of those gigantic IKEA corner closets to hold husbands things. That, along with an 8 drawer dresser which takes up the entire wall in our bedroom and it becomes an overdose of Maple laminate. I want both gone, replaced with maybe a 5 drawer tall dresser and a small chair. Both of those items I could turn into ‘fun’ projects if I can get all of husbands things into the office closet…