All out of routine.........

I am a person who likes a routine.  I like to plan out my week ahead.  I do not like spur of the moment changes.  So getting sick wasn't part of the plan this past week.

However despite being sick I did manage to get the part of the basement painted that I planned on painting this past week.  It wasn't done until Saturday morning, but it was done.  Part of the issue with this basement decorating is that I can't do it all at once, it's too much for my hands.  Also I went and booked a company to come and clean the carpet and stairs down to the basement at the end of the month.  So I have a deadline; which is not something I normally do.

A bonus this past week, was getting more books read than I planned on doing this month, therefore cleaning out more books that have been laying around.  I will say though, the Jane Austen books are on hold as I can't handle them at the moment.

My goal for this basement for the upcoming week is to get it all painted and finished.  That will then give me another good week or so, to clean out cupboards and drawers down there and finishing tidying up in the laundry room before the end of the month.  That way I can do another trip to the charity store to donate stuff.

Oh and finally we got rid of the last of the snow........I hope I am not jinxing myself by saying this; as it is nearly the middle of April.  Hubby actually got out on Saturday and did the first of the winter cleanup.  It's far from being warm, but it's above freezing so we will take that as a win!

Mammogram........

 

It's been four years since I had my last one.  So when I went for one this week, I got a lecture.  I couldn't help but roll my eyes, I deserved a gold star for turning up.  I am very, very fortunate that cancer does not run in our family.  However, yes it's important to still get tested.

It was a new lady (too me) that did it this time and I swear she was trying to make me twist and move my body in ways even I knew wasn't possible!!!

Suffice to say, I survived, and lived to tell the tale.  

Oh and I had the dreaded PAP Smear earlier in the year when I went to see the nurse for something else, and got "coerced" into having a PAP Smear.  So all in all I have done my duty for the foreseeable, just saying!!!

Which one are you?

Still not feeling great so catching up on some reading.  I am a cross between The Statue/The Whisperer/The Hoarder.  I am trying my hardest though to read what I have before I buy anything else!!

I am reading this at the moment.  "Nothing Daunted, by Dorothy Wickenden," it's pretty good.

Feeling under the weather............

 

Hopefully not for long.  It's all in my head (LOL), and my poor ears are all blocked up.  It's a pain in the butt as I have a lot to do this week..........

Beautiful Sunday........and

 A Happy Easter to each and everyone of you.

A little peek at what I have been doing this past week..........

I started on the basement last week.  At one end of the main room, there is a built in unit.  All made with Ikea units by the previous owners.  The main work on this section is painting the units in white with a semi gloss.

On the wall behind the shelves they had put some paper, which was dropping off, so I had pulled it off ages ago.  It was taped on with sellotape/scotch tape???  So it was never going to stay put?

The middle shelf came out to paint, and I decided to put up this peel and stick wallpaper.

It looks lovely.  A pain in the butt to match up, as there are two strips of paper, and the match meant wasting at least six to ten inches each time.  However my mother gave me a great tip of cutting the lengths of the first strips, then cutting the next strip before putting up so I could see which strip matched the first one the best.  I know I haven't explained that well, sorry.  Also got hubby to mark a square straight line in the middle for me, as the units weren't truly square.

I painted the middle wall between the shelves, and  it only took the one coat.  All the unit was painted twice with semi gloss.  I got the wallpaper from Amazon, this one.  Great quality and once I got the hang of it, pretty straight forward to hang.

Hubby is now changing the electrical socket in the lower middle unit, and of course there is a problem with it (((SIGH)))  Thankfully he has the tools and knowledge to sort it all out.  I then have to put the books back etc, before moving on to another part.

The next part I am tackling is straight forward, BUT has five doors in that area, all to paint ((((SIGH)))) 🙄

I just love this show.....

 

 

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