Daybook: Monday, January 14/19

Today is my oldest grand daughter's birthday. Happy Birthday, Sweetie.

Outside my window.....it is sunny and cold. The cold is much easier to take under sunny skies.

I am thinking.....of all the work I envisioned for the month of January. What was I thinking?

I am thankful for..... having enough materials to get things done.

From the kitchen.....I got a lot accomplished on Saturday. I made 2  pots of turkey vegetable and split pea soup. I baked a loaf of keto bread and I fried up a package of bacon from the freezer. I also shredded and sauteed a whole head of cabbage that will provide two dinners this week.

I am wearing.....a pair of knockabout jeans and an old red t-shirt for working around the house. I wouldn't wear these out in public.

I am creating.....some cards for all occasions.

I am going.....probably nowhere today. I have not written out my note-cards yet, so probably will not be going out to the Post Office. Besides, I am still in the old clothes I put on this morning because I was painting.

I am hoping.....to get started on another craft project this week.

I am hearing.....just the blower on my furnace.

Around the house.....my dining table is messy still with the supplies I used to make more cards over the weekend. I have some painting supplies brought into the computer room where I was priming the bathroom door and a bedside table this morning. The door has two coats of white primer, but my table needs another coat tomorrow. I also primed a small hanging corner shelf. Since the preparation and the cleaning up is such a big chore, I want to do as much as I can.

One of my favourite things.....this past weekend was a Christmas gift from my daughter. She gave me, among other things, a large paper pad filled with water colour backgrounds, which inspired me to make a lot of cards.

A few plans for the rest of the week.....include a visit to the pharmacy to pick up another prescription. I have no scheduled appointments.

Weekly Goals:

• Continue to moisturize at night and apply lipstick in the mornings until it becomes routine.

Missed lipstick on Wednesday, and late in the afternoon some days.

• Continue to journal every day to keep better accounting of my spending and my weekly menus. Done

• Write 3 note cards to send off to 3 different recipients this week.     Done
  

• Prime the bathroom door (inside and outside)      Done
  

• While I'm at it, find other items to prime (bedside tables, small shelving units, any unfinished trim)    Done
  

• Go through another binder and purge papers that are no longer useful or relevant. I finished my recipe binder last week.     Done

• Sort through some photos and start scrap booking.     Not Done

• Change the filter on my furnace.      Done

 

• Make  up my valentine cards this week.     Done

Here's the picture I am sharing.....

 I wish I had taken before photos of these things. You wouldn't believe the difference. The door looked so dirty, but it wasn't. I had scrubbed the original paint right off of it, so it was looking very shabby. It now has 2 coats of white primer on it. Eventually, I will put a high gloss finishing white on it.

This upside down bedside table had a matte black finish on it. I need it to be white. This is one coat of primer. I will probably put another coat on it tomorrow to hide most of the black. This will also have a high gloss white on it eventually.