This week I've been a bit absent from blogland as most of the week has been spent doing a much needed job at home, namely spring cleaning the whole house in readiness for some visitors that were coming to stay at the weekend. It's a job that's been on my to do list since the beginning of the year, but it never really got done for one reason or another. Whilst I was busy with work and other things, I just didn't really have the energy or the motivation and it just got worse as the year went on, especially when I got so busy over the summer months..
With visitors on the horizon, I was sufficiently motivated to make the house a nicer environment to visit, so starting on Tuesday I slowly worked my way right through the house, thinning everything out as much as I could, to make the rooms they'd be staying in more habitable for guests. It was a long and quite tiring week, but I just took my time and tried to enjoy the feeling of taking care of my home and having the luxury of time to do so.
I did go to a class at the gym on Tuesday morning and a gym session on Thursday morning, but otherwise, most of my time was spent cleaning. I did, however, sustain an injury this week, to my hip abductor muscle, which made the last day of cleaning painful and difficult. I'm a bit annoyed about it, as I've been very careful to do proper warmups and cool downs in the gym to avoid injury. I'm not sure how I managed to acquire this one, but it is limiting my movement quite a bit and it's painful. As a consequence, I had to skip the free gym session this morning, but I'm hoping it will improve soon.
For other reasons it was also a good time to tackle this task this week, as my budget had evapourated quickly this month. It served to keep me busy, whilst costing absolutely nothing, but my energy and time. It also made me realise how much stuff we have in the house and how I really do not need to bring in anything else for the time being. In fact, the next task will be to actually go through some of the stuff I've got stored in various places and get rid of some of it and try to condense it, but that is a task for another week.
Evenutally, the house cleaning got finished. OH and LB helped me as the visit got nearer. It does feel good to have the house reset. I was quite thorough, although it wasn't a deep clean. There was a lot of dust on surfaces, partly due to all the building work that's been going on next door this year and there were lots of cobwebs to brush down, but it's done now.
Today, I've finally got a day to myself. OH and our guests have all gone to the Women's Rugby Final at Twickenham and LB is going to work shortly, so I've got the whole day to myself to hobble around and do as I please. I might even do some sewing work on my quilted gilet, as it's simple enough to work on and I can do it at the kitchen table. I'm going to just enjoy myself, as a reward for a busy and productive week for once.
I hope you've had a good week.
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