Today has been quite a day and I think my body hates me, at least I’m 99% sure that my feet do!

I got a few hours of sleep, which is par for the course, set the alarm for 6:30, JRS (it always tickled me that we have the same initials!) was coming over at 7 AM, yes, that was SEVEN AM on a Saturday morning to lay the dining room floor, we got bamboo (this was after a very long back and forth with the realtor and several people, porcelain or bamboo), a nice dark brown for the dining room, ooh and a light color, named Toast, for the landing on the stairs, it will be very nice. (Thank g to my furry children for making it all possible, grr) but it will look great.

Well, apparently, you can’t lay bamboo floors when it is going to rain and there was a 90% chance of rain today, guess what it didn’t do at all, so guess what didn’t happen. My friends and family are smart, so I’m not going to say. Well, apparently there’s a 99% chance tomorrow, so Monday it is. I did find out that you can walk on bamboo floors within about four hours, very cool.

So, while I did some packing, JRS pulled up the carpet tacks, I swept when he was done and laid some more bleach down. I later got some pant to cover up the loverly smell that is now in the concrete, please cross your fingers that is going to work. We went upstairs so I could paint the way tippy top trim in the master bath, lucky me, I have a vaulted ceiling in there. I got most of that done, the corner I couldn’t get near, near a different ladder.

JRS left and I got back to work. I got a text from TS that she was on her way and when she got here, she said the nicest thing to me! Even though everything is all over the place, I can tell you’ve gotten a lot done! That felt great because that’s how I felt, it looks like crap, but I know I’ve done a lot!

We got started, packing things in the master bedroom, tackling the bookshelf, packing all the books from two rooms and then she packed the monopolies, the monopolies and more monopolies, then almost cried when she saw some in another room and downstairs! Sorry TS!

It was time for a break, Welcome to Moe’s! Then Home Depot for that special paint, then back to work!

Then we tackled the only other room that is actually a bedroom, the lavender room. We cleared it to and staged it, it looks great! We made it into a guest/kids room could be a teenager, maybe younger. It is simple and just right, TS has a knack for that, she scoured my house for just the right things to put here and there. What do you think? When we were done, I closed the door!

It was about that time that the sneezing hit, sometimes the only cure, a shower, so off I went, ahhhh. Back to work!

I learned something today, you can put boxes in the closet until you have a moving van, as long as its not packed too tightly, interesting, I was thinking that I had to take every box down to the garage, whew!

We took what could be considered a break and sat outside for a bit, then worked on the front porch, brought my other crayon chair outside and TS added some lights to the walk, it looks nice! (I was thinking of CKM as the star of light was coming from the new light, it would make a great photo of the day!)

Sneezing fit sent me back inside.

Next room to be staged is what I like to call my “art studio”, ok, it’s a hobby room, but I like art studio! When CKM was over last week we did quite a number on it, I’ve been working on it during the week and then TS and I went though and set it up to be a hobby room, there’s a sewing table, a basket of yarn and some paints to the side, when I clear out some of the boxes and things, it will be quite cozy and nice.

In the middle of all of this, it was time for pizza. Unfortunately for TS, she is very allergic to cats and guess who kept trying to say hello! The entire time, she’s looking around to see what would be good for staging in different rooms, it was great!

Sometime in there she staged my powder room, how did I miss that!

About 30 minutes more in the art studio and it was time for TS to go, she had been here about 9 hours, I say she deserved a break! THANK YOU!

After she left, I got back to work, packing things in the office (I couldn’t look at the art studio anymore!). Then I came into the bedroom, the idea today was to allow me to sleep in my own bed for the first time in a week. I moved things around, packed some more boxes, then moved the bed, let me tell you, a box spring is heavier than it looks! I put the bed back in its place, changed the sheets, I can’t wait to crawl into them! I made a path, sort of, around the bed and to the bathroom, lets just say, if someone wanted to surprise me or sneak up on me, they would have a very hard time! And a hard time not hurtling themselves or falling! I guess I booby trapped the house!

About an hour later, I was done, hopped in for another shower, sat down to write to you and I am hoping to pass out soon! I do know that every time I get up my feet are saying nasty things to and a out me, good thing I’m not listening!

Tomorrow, finish the upstairs, maybe work on the downstairs. I can’t wait for this part to be over and I can sit down and do absolutely nothing!

Hey, where are the packing fairies? Poof! You’re packed!