thelaughingmuse | Monday, Monday (blah blah, blah blah blah blah) (Reply)

I spent the weekend feeling yuck, and today the head cold is attempting to become a chest cold.

No no no no no. We are NOT. DOING. THAT.

(Good reminder to me to get the second bit of my breakfast, which includes Emergen-C drink. I cannot get Airborne in Mexico, but I can get Emergen-C. I also have lots and lots of tea and cup o noodles ramen soups, and two more bottles of Electrolit.)

Over the weekend I did some jewelry organization, and the final load of laundry from the 3-month buildup. Not a lot...but seeing as I was staving off bronchial-somethingorothereth, I'm calling it a win. Last night I got a decent night's sleep without having to use Afrin, so I'm sure the sleep helped quite a bit. Night time temperatures are warming up - slightly - but they're still in the 40s. And daytime temps are staying quite firmly in the high 70s with the occasional 80 or 81. Once the nighttime temps get to the upper 40s/low 50s I'll be much more comfortable. That will start happening in about another month.

Today's tasks:

wash breakfast dishes
gather up the trash (I'm currently storing the large bags of trash on the patio until I feel well enough to load them into the car and drive to the bins)
sort out coloring books: two for display, one for scanning
pack another box to go to storage (I need strapping tape!)
figure out where to move the remaining boxes against the patio-door wall so that this coming weekend, I might be able to start putting together the big Kallax and put it in its place. (Yes, I'm blocking the patio door. The screen has a big ol' tear in the down-low corner, and I don't want my cats getting out, so I need to block that somehow. Repair it?? I'm not permanently repairing anything that was messed up when I moved in. And it's a Kallax! There will still be airflow through the upper three rows, which I plan to use mostly for decorative stuff; but the bottom two rows' worth will be blocked solid with books and, in the case of the bottom row, those storage cubes with doors.)

I'm still trying to figure out what I can do with the crocheted afghan panels that my Mom had completed, but hadn't put together. When she was still alive, she tried teaching me how to make these afghans, but she only had one page of the pattern-papers. Searching online or with the manufacturer didn't work, since the pattern was from 1974. I did find others looking for the same pattern, but none of us could help each other. So...I have to find another thing to do with the last of these panels. I never learned to crochet, so I don't know how to backwards-engineer these. I do have two completed afghans that my mom made for me, and they came in quite handy here in the armpit of winter.

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