Current Mood : Feeling a bit helpless - and still kinda hot, drat that A/C unit !
With nothing new on the Alphabet XPress question - that must be one busy lawyer ! - and temperatures in the low 100s today, I scrapped my plans of going out and stayed in for some intense, small cleaning. Got the last few ‘corners of clutter' cleared in the Lab, which surprisingly took nearly two hours to get sorted and stored. Another bagload going for donations, too. It's always more work than I think, and now that it's done, I know why I always put that off. Didn't gain a lot of space, but it's nice to not see the piles and think, ‘I really need to clean that' anymore.
Repurposed a now-empty storage box for kitchen rags and a wooden felt-bottomed cigar box for Beloved Hubby's tattoo supplies. Last week, I found the plastic pantry shelves I'd bought at a yard sale - they expand to fit any shelf, and look like stairsteps, so the stuff in the back is visible. I'd intended to use them for doll photos, but they'd been sitting around for a year. They look surprisingly ‘at home' holding Beloved Hubby's collection of inks and paints in his Man Cave.
Finally rounded up all the washed-but-not-stored fabric scattered all over the house and got that bundled, too. I am seriously suffering from my own version of affluenza - I have too much, it was all too cheap, and it takes too long to clean and sort and store it all ! But I love every millimeter of it. And just looking at it makes me feel good, secure, and rich !
Which is good, because it doesn't look like I'll be doing any more spending soon. After the landlord had ‘her' repair person out here twice to look at the A/C, it's still running nonstop, and it was 85 degrees inside at noon yesterday. So we called a repair person of our own, who told us the compressor is shot, it's an old system, and can't possibly cool anything efficiently. No repairs possible, whole system will need to be replaced. Since landlord futzed around with the broken oven for over a year until we replaced it at our own expense, and ‘her' repair person said the A/C was a filter issue, we kind of know she's not willing to pony up a couple $K to fix it. After the rent's paid, we'll tell her what our repairman said, but I think she's 1)not gonna care that our power bills will be $300 - $400./month, and won't do a thing, 2) will tell us we can leave if we don't like it. So you may get to hear me whine soon about packing and giving up my Lab. (sigh) Not very happy right now...
Well, not much I can do right this minute - and I'm gonna go use our new-to-us oven to make dinner. Hope your Thursday was great !
Feel better hon.
