It’s over. Back to work again tomorrow. Yuk!

Really not that upset about going back, but there’s just so much I had planned to do last week that I didn’t get finished. Oh well. Planned to do a lot of outdoor cleaning in the backyard as well as the area between the kitchen and garage, but just ran out of time. Did get all the painting finished in the family room and got most of my flowers planted. Still have to clean up the flowerbed at the end of the yard (next to the patio table) and put in the remainder of the flowers there. Have found it to be just too exhausting to do much outside work during the heat of the day. So will try to get the yard work finished up this week at night after work when it’s cooler.

Hope to finally get the crown molding up in the bathroom by the end of the month. Need Patrick’s help for this and he will be gone this coming weekend. So will try for the following weekend. We’ll see…

My next week of vacation will be in mid-August. Am hoping to have things at the point then where I can paint my bedroom. I am sooo looking forward to waking up to freshly painted walls! Am going to get a ceiling fan to replace the outdated track lighting that I hate! All I really need to buy is the fan and paint, so shouldn’t be too costly. Already have the wood stain for the seating area of the bay window–just have to figure out how to keep Loki out of the window till the varnish dries!

Hope to do more cleaning out in the garage while Patrick is away at Burning Man at the end of August. Slowly but surely things are coming together and I’m beginning to see the light at the end of that long tunnel! Still want to refinish the kitchen cabinets and tile the kitchen floor. Guess that will have to be next summer’s project…

Off to put a load of laundry in the dryer, set up the coffee pot and head off to bed since I know tomorrow will be extremely busy and I’ll need lots of rest tonight. One week’s vacation just isn’t enough. Gotta figure out a way to take off 2 weeks in a row next year.