Whew!

[kerravonsen]

I have now cleared the decks in preparation for the Curtain person coming to measure-and-quote this afternoon. I've been doing bits and pieces of tidying all weekend, but the huge horror of my study was still untouched as of this morning. So I've been tackling that. Threw out lots of boxes, filled a huge garbage bag full of rubbish, moved some stuff around, shoved things into drawers and boxes, took my broken heater out to the garage, moved my bead case back into the wardrobe where it's supposed to live (but left the sewing machine on the desk), moved some bottles and plastic containers into the kitchen to be washed, emptied my Christmas bag into my Christmas box, put my modem into my computer-odds-and-ends box, and finally managed to mostly clear the desk. Then I clambered onto the desk in order to take the foil off one window, which my brother in law had taped up there with masking tape a few years ago when my study used to be the spare bedroom; he found the curtains too thin and taped foil to the windows to block out the light. I'd taken the foil down from two of the windows, but the third window was too hard to get to, as one had to kneel on the desk in order to get to it. But the foil is gone now (and ouch, it's not nice kneeling on a desk, no).

Ah, tired me. And it's still not a proper "spring clean" because there's still a few boxes of junk, which contain the stuff I shoved off the desk the last time I cleared it, and I have no idea what's inside them. Not to mention that the whole house needs vacuuming, but I'm not going to do it. (sigh)

Comments

[tptigger.livejournal.com]

"spring cleaning"? Isn't it winter there? *ducks and runs away*

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You mean your study's been dark all that time? I couldn't have stood it!

[kerravonsen]

No, the foil was only covering 1/3 of the window area, it wasn't really dark.

[kerravonsen]

8-P

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ah. What sort of curtains are you going for?

[kerravonsen]

Almost anything would be better than what I have now. The ones in the study and the spare room are so old that they're difficult to open and close, because the hooks sort of catch in the runners. And they're a dreary beige colour. The ones in my bedroom are much nicer, because I replaced them more recently with brown velvety ones, but I decided it was still probably better to get all three rooms done at the same time, and get some curtains which blocked the light a bit better when they were shut, not just for the sake of my brother in law, but for me, because the dark brown curtains don't really block the light much on a sunny day, and while I don't sleep during the day, if I'm sick I often do, and I can do with all the help I can get: having opaque curtains is better than putting a blanket over one's head, which I've had to do on more than one occasion.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I believe thermal-backed ones are good for blocking out light, but of course you know I don't have any--just blinds.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Jesus, I envy you so much that you were able to do this cleaning! I have been thinking of it for years, the mess just keeeps accumulating and I am such a coward - just avoid doing it!

[kerravonsen]

There's nothing like necessity for motivating one to do something...

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

Yay for new curtains! We finally got new blinds in our living room (which only had valances on the windows, and the sun streaming in would either wash out or reflect off of the TV screen, depending on which direction the light was coming from). Nice double cell "honeycomb" blinds that also act as thermal insulators and have helped keep things cool during the really hot days.

It's very exciting, isn't it.