Most of the day I was on the carpet. That is I was cleaning the carpet in the dining room and the half of the living room that was not done last week.
I am getting better at using the new carpet machine, but was very careful not to over do it, as the work is heavy and I did not want to set my back off again. It took me off and on about four hours to complete the task, but while resting between work loads, I ate lunch, watched TV a little, read the mail, did some of my blog work aforementioned, and got two small loads of laundry done. I am convinced that any job can be done if you divide it up into manageable segments. I learned that from the flylady. http://www.flylady.com
When all was complete and I sat admiring the now clean carpet, I realized that the worst part of my old carpet was in the dining room. I started thinking that when money is available I want to put either hard wood or perga in the dining room and kitchen like so many of my neighbors have already done. The living room carpet is actually still good. Then, if and when I replace the carpet, I will have the dining room AND the kitchen as places where I can move the extra big furniture, besides the garage of course. Also I won't have to move the china cabinet except for when the dining room floor is done. It is Do able!!!! I am content with that.
Only carpet that did not get cleaned is the stairs. I am not sure How I will do that, but I will figure it out. I still have the shop vac, and it is a canister so I could put the solution on manually, and use the shop vac to draw it up. Unless of course I get the new carpet before I get totally disgusted with the stairway carpeting.
After the carpet job, I was still able to get to Curves for my workout... like carpet cleaning isn't enough? Well, Curves works on other areas and consistency is necessary to a good exercise program.
After Curves, I went to Meijers and bought a five foot bookcase (Sauder) to try to make things a little more logical in the office upstairs where I have all of the extra SCSAG library books that need to be checked against the catalog and added as we remove old books to make room for them. Too bad I can't catalog them on the same floor they live on, but such is the situation. At least my downstairs office area looks neat, and hopefully my upstairs one will someday be more functional as well.
Well, with the energy left, I must open the box so I can drag the wood upstairs to make the case. Hmmmm. It is safe in the garage. Maybe that is a job that will wait for Saturday morning.
Audrey is meeting me for breakfast around nine, I can drag the boards up while I am listening to kids radio from seven to nine.
Saw that the Pentecostal Evangel is going to have an article about Christians and blogging in their May 18th issue. I must get myself a copy on Sunday. In light of this news, I sent information about my blog, which I do not consider outstanding, to several more people.
Time to rest!
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