I remember many years ago a girl who told me that she would get herself into debt to make her rented house look perfect. I was struggling with my first mortgage and bought very little for the house and as I was out working all the time as long as everything was watertight and clean I wasn’t too worried. Sensible really.
Now my partner has retired and I’ve also stepped of the heady ladder of workdom. I actually envisaged doing all the things that I would like to do to make “our” house perfect. Not a chance.
Finance wise every decision will have to be carefully considered because afterall going away on holidays for 9weeks is actually more important.
I had a Eureka moment last week, I realised all these thoughts of “improvements”, painting, new furniture, new carpets , eating dinner of a dining table were just making me positively grouchy. They were an impossible ladder to climb, particularly when “grumpy” does not want to do any DIY for at least a year.
” I’ve just given up work , I don’t want to start doing more work!” He hasn’t actually said that , but I suspect that is what he’s thinking. He’s taken over walking the dog and in truth as I completely blame my dog for my bad knees I know that him indoors will do the “miles” and it’s hard. Yes all he wants when he gets back is a cup of tea and a nap. Ditto the dog a bowl of water and a nap with daddy and then a play when he wakes up, another walk, his dinner and then more play. Then it will be time for bed for everyone.
Which leaves me with my writing and the “housework” and a lot of recycling hobbies, oh and the garden and my allotment. Jeez , I’m exhausted writing that down. I found a new system to help me with the housework, complete three tasks a day . It works for me, so “housework” doesn’t seem like climbing Mount Everest.
Anyway that Eureka moment took a great weight off my shoulders, no trips searching for the right paint, a bit of paper glue can fix that flap of wallpaper rather than re-papering the whole wall , Amazon are out of stock of those small paint rollers so we will leave painting behind the radiators to some other time. Suddenly the list of” jobs to do ” disappeared.
Yes , some of you will just sigh in disbelief , but in truth ” to delay to another day” is a valid decorating style and fits in perfectly to some of our lifestyles. Chill.
Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏
thenotsomightyom 