Thank you

Plagiarism week = complete!

I kind of want to do a nice long post about my weekend, which has been lovely, but I'm very tired and need to go to bed. It's my last evening as a stay-at-home-mum; I go back to work tomorrow. I can hardly believe that a whole year has passed, it seems have gone by in the blink of an eye. I don't want to dwell on it too much or I'll start crying, but hopefully I'll be able to arrange some lucid thoughts tomorrow and get some more catching-up posting done.

I just wanted to say a massive thank you to Jamie for doing my comic strips; they're absolutely perfect and it feels amazing to cross 7 things off my list. Even though it is a little tiny bit cheating ;)

And also thank you for looking after me so well over the past year, I know it hasn't been easy, and cliched though it may sound, I absolutely couldn't have done it without you.

xxxx

96. Put up hooks on back of door in hallway cupboard

At some point during this hundred-days process, I attempted to do this. We bought the hooks, I got the drill all charged ... and found out that the hooks wouldn't fit across the back of the door. I've looked and looked, and haven't been able to find any sets of smaller hooks. Plus I couldn't really remember why I wanted them there anyway. Maybe for hanging J-cub's coats up.

We'll see, anyway. I'll keep on looking for those elusive hooks.

91. Repaint garage door

This is the back garage door, rather than the large slidey metal front door thing. We haven't repainted it since we moved in, and most of the paint has completely flaked off. However, the sun doesn't hit the back of the house and garage at all at this time of year, so there's no chance of the door drying out in preparation for painting, or of the paint drying once painted.

Another one to leave for a beautiful Summer's day, when J-cub is running around chasing bees, helping with the gardening and playing in a sandpit. I can't wait for summer.

83. Put up shelves in study

Yet another item where I didn't think about the magnitude of it when writing the list. As far as I'm aware, putting up shelves is a two person job. Otherwise they'd be all wonky. The only time when there are two people available in this house, the baby is asleep, and any drilling/arguing/cursing would therefore wake him up. So we'll leave it until someone else is available for baby-wrangling duties.

74. Put up pictures in hallway

See previous post. I can't put up pictures if I haven't decorated, right? That would just be silly.

73. Decorate hallway

There's not really an awful lot I need to say about this. We can't decide on a colour, and it'll take AGES. The coat rack needs to come down, all the skirting and stairs and banisters and windowsills and NINE doors need to be masking-taped round, it needs an undercoat or two, then two coats of nice paint. It'll take forever, and I don't have forever. I was thinking that for the next list, I should break this item down a little bit, make it more manageable. But for now, procrastination is the way forwards.

70. Clean out cupboard under the sink

I hate the cupboard under the sink. It's where all the cleaning stuff lives, and it's one of those corner cupboard where you can't reach half of it. It's also a bit damp, and as I can't pinpoint where the damp is coming from, I get panicky about the house falling down if I don't do anything about it, and so I just don't do anything about it. In fact I go so far as to not use the cupboard as much as possible, preferring to leave all my regularly-used cleaning products out on the worktop next to the sink. Which is just stupid, when I stop to think about it.

There are also boxes of Stuff in there, and I don't know what Stuff is in the boxes, and I think that when I get round to cleaning it out, it's going to take me forever as I'll have to decide what to do with all the Stuff.

I'll do it one day, maybe in the summer when it's dried out a bit and I won't panic so much when I get in there and see quite how bad it is.