Friday, August 28, 2020

5 Year Journal Day 100

      Today's prompt is "Where do you feel most at home?" Uh... in my house? LOL

     Yesterday I worked on Caleb's room. I skipped both my classes in order to be able to work without interruption. Caleb had his occupational therapy appointment. The only thing I have to do now is wash all the clothes that Caleb had on the dirty floor. I am going to give the clothes that are too small for him now to his friend. 


Caleb's room : the view from the doorway.


Opposite wall.


Library in order.

     That's my progress so far. I still have to shop vac his closet and behind the door. Eventually I will get to under the bed, and might rearrange the furniture to get under it and behind it. I'm proud of myself!

     I have most of the living room cleared out too. I have to move the furniture to get underneath and around it. I still have not moved the bookcases where I want them. I plan on doing some of that work today after Caleb wakes up, and after our morning routine.  


Our new free leather chair!


Our new free Ikea bookcase! 1 of 2. The other is in the corner by the couch.


The new free leather sofa and 2 new free Ikea bookcases (in the corner). Yes, I realize it's cluttered and still needs work, but you never saw how it was before!


2 new free smaller Ikea bookcases. 


     Here are some random photos that I did not share before. 


Wearing my "new" black dress for the first time. I was just going out to a doctor's appointment, but was dying to wear a dress I bought before the corona virus broke out.


Lipstick that was found in an old purse!



My new job title as a homeschooling single mother of a child with special needs. Going back to the grind next week!

     Caleb just woke up and is in a grouchy mood. So yesterday I made a difficult financial decision to enroll in a credit relief program. I have held out for so long thinking I could pay everything back as is, but I'm not making progress quickly enough, I am paying a lot of interest and not enough principal, and a lot of my resources are being wasted. I currently have no savings in case of emergency, and have become dependent on credit cards to pay for things I should have enough money to buy like groceries and gas. Every month I am barely scraping by with pennies in my account at the end of each pay period. I have no hope of making more money as I am already overworked and over-committed. 

     I didn't want to resort to enrolling in that program because I have worked so hard to get my credit back up and am so close to where I need to be in order to refinance my house. I can't keep going like this though. This is better for the long term. I will not make the same mistakes again.

     So that was my day yesterday! Today I have to wash a ton of laundry I found on Caleb's floor. I also have to catch up on my kitchen cleaning. I want to work on the living room, once I clean Caleb's closet. At some point in the near future Bella needs a spa day. Her nails are long. I hope to have a lot done by the end of today. We have no appointments today, so that's a plus. 

     I want to get someone to install the shower faucet knob for me. I'm going to ask my friend who works in home improvement if she can help me out. 

     Mathew's promotion either happened already, or is happening soon. I don't know. Nobody' s telling me anything. 

     I am super proud of what I have been able to do in the past week. I have pushed myself hard and gotten things done that I was sure I would have to pay someone else to do. I bent , I squatted, and I shop vac'd! I hurt, but I rested, and went back to work when feeling better. 

     Well it's getting late. It is 9:25 a.m. here now. I gotta get moving and get to my morning routine.

     






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