Domestic

(I have no clue why Blogger won't keep my paragraph breaks!!) I have taken 2 days off this week to spring clean. I have been sick with various problems for a year now and am beginning to feel better. Along with conventions, etc., the house has suffered and needed a top to bottom deep cleaning, which you cannot accomplish just on a Saturday.................... So I told my employer I needed 3 days in a row (Thur/Fri/Sat) to get some things done. He looked at me and said, "That's four days." (counting Sun.) I said, "Sundays don't count. I work on Sundays." He said, "I thought Sunday was a day of rest."....I said, "Tell that to God, 'cause He works me to death on Sundays.". :)............... Thursday: Fixed Mike some eggs and toast for breakfast and then pork chops for lunch. I did the usual overall surface cleaning / straightening up / organizing / vacuming that I normally accomplish on a Saturday................... Friday: Told Mike he could eat cereal for breakfast. Ha! However, I had a roast in the crock pot and we needed to eat lunch early so he only needed a small breakfast. :) I had Mike buy me a new step ladder so I could reach the top of the cabinets without dangerously perching on a chair. I took down all my nicknacks in the kitchen and one bathroom and washed them clean and sparkly. Then I washed the tops of the cabinets because dust collects up there and I wasn't able to do that last year. The kitchen cabinets especially likes to collect dust and grease up there. I've decided that I really hate that job, so I have lined the tops of the cabinets in both rooms with white kitchen garbage bags. You can't see them from below, but next time that job needs to be done, I'll just throw away those bags and put up new ones. Invention is the mother of necessity.................... :) I am now exhausted from climbing a step ladder all day long!!!!!!!!!!!! While high up on the step ladder, I was praying (not about falling and possibly breaking my neck) and start weeping (dangerous I know). Mike came when he got off the phone and asked me what was wrong! I was just talking to God about my problems and fears and how I want live for Him................................. Tomorrow: Mike will take me out to breakfast. :) and then we'll look at some stone for the front of the house. Then I'll come home and make sure the ceiling fan(s) are cleaned and the floors are done. I still have laundry and my office to clean and finishing touches on Children's Church to accomplish....................... Three days were great, but really not enough. I needed a week!!! I've already told my employer that I need two days off next week. Mike wants me to do it again the following week. After that, I'm going to try to take Fridays off from now on. Dustin told us that he will be here the week before BTI and will go up to BTI with us. So that means that I now want three weeks off during that time. I will introduce my employer to a "Temp. Agency" or quit. Either way is fine with me.