I gave notice to my current job a week and a half ago and have 6 days left in my employment here. (Luckily, I get the President's Day holiday coming up.) So I will have a full week of funemployment!!! Woot woot!
Now, if you don't know what "fun"employment is, I will let the LA Times explain it to you.
And back to me...
I purposefully arranged to be off between jobs, so that I could get some things done. These are things that have been lingering in my apartment and my life that are slowly driving me batty.
THE LIST
1) Paint bathroom.
Some time ago, my husband and I removed the layers and layers of paint that were covering up out perfectly good tile in our bathroom. The saving grace was in most places the first layer on the time was... Marbled contact paper! The super plastic-y kind. So if you got a corner of that and peeled, pretty much all of the paint came off in one fell swoop. There was still some scraping involved, but we are finally done with that. Now we have to paint the room as the butter yellow (aka what passes as white in the apartment) looks even more hideous against the white tile. I have picked out a nice luminous white Benjamin Moore color, and will buy an appropriate bathroom paint.
2) Take items to Goodwill
I have been trying to get my husband to get rid of some of his things since I moved in. And since we got a storage unit, the remaining items stick out like sore thumbs. They have got to go! I have some things I'm getting rid of too. But I am much better at letting things go then my husband.
3) Sew napkins.
Several years ago, I was gifted placemats and napkins. They weren't exactly to my taste so I put them away with my other linens not sure what my long-term plan was for them. I've used the placemats since though they don't really fit my table. And I finally used the napkins this past Thanksgiving. They actually aren't so bad. They went from being GOLD to champagne with a wash and an iron. But I decided I needed proper napkins that match the decor and maybe the season (aka Christmas). With some of my Christmas money, I purchased two sets of fat quarters with the intention of sewing up some napkins. One set will be year-round, and one set is wintery/Christmasy that works in addition to the year-round set.
4) Make sewing plans
I haven't sewn anything or even purchased any sewing supplies (minus the napkin fabric) so far this year. I would like to spend the time planning some sewing projects, picking patterns and finding fabric, for things to be completed in the next few months. I would like to refrain from buying too much during a time when I won't be getting paid, but I just might buy some suiting cloth to make a pattern I bought last year.
5) Clean out... I don't know what. I had gotten distracted.
I want to edit this to read "Clean wedding dress and decide its fate." Originally I wanted to sell my wedding dress after I used it, but I obviously have done nothing with it for 2.5 years. So I intend to bust it out of its bag, give it a light cleaning, take pictures of it, then decide if I am selling it, storing it, and dismantling it. It's about time!
6) Purge unread magazines
Though my husband is the worse offender, I have recently stopped reading as many magazines so once did. So the magazines from my subscriptions are piling up. (I only subscribe to 3 magazines. But they come monthly.) I am going to flip through them, oldest to newest, and decide if I want to read any of them.
7) More sewing - aka finally mend or rework items
There are several (okay more than several) items sitting on a shelf in my closet that need trending to. These have to be fixed or leave the apartment. They are starting to make me feel guilty.
8) Scanning and shredding
Years ago, like when my husband first moved in with me, we bought this mini desktop feed scanner. And my husband brought with him a shredder. (From his studio. I don't know where he found the room.) The scanner was a great purchase because it is super versatile. But you have to have the time to scan YEARS worth of paperwork. Over two days of my Christmas vacation I was able to scan 1.5 years worth of documents. That's kind of a depressing rate. But I'm hoping to spend another chunk of time and get rid of some more.
9) And three smaller administrative tasks...
- Change the location of my prescription refill. I don't want to have to come all the way uptown if I don't have to...
- Zero inbox. My personal email boxes are in pretty good shape, but I'd like to move, store, save the emails that are sitting there waiting for "some day".
- Finish my on-boarding tasks. There aren't a whole lot left, but want to get them done sooner rather than later.
