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As planned, today was the day for me to give the couch covers (and the bedsheets while I was at it) a good washing at the local launderette, so I could put said covers over the new cushions. As expected, all four cushions (two seats, two backs) were vacuum-packed and squeezed into a much smaller box and did the FOOOOP! thing as soon as I opened it! Heh. The end result is that you can definitely feel the difference! Considering the old cushions were almost a decade old, I'm not surprised at all. Side note: I also vacuumed underneath the living room couch, and found a few years' worth of dust, two buttons, two stitch markers, some random yarn bits, and a solitary Cheerio. I may have seen a spider zip away as well, but he was out of my line of sight when I looked again. As long as he's doing his job and snacking on all the other bugs here, he can stay as long as he likes.
As said, the sheets were done as well. We'd bought a new comforter some time ago and I'd forgotten to put on the bed skirt, so this time I threw it on while I let the mattress air out in the meantime. I've just put a new set of sheets on and will throw the comforter on a little later. And I ended my day of cleaning by running the trash, recycling and compost down.
SO! This means all that's left is for me to get rid of the old cushions and the love seat. I have not yet heard from Home Reserve when it will be coming, but they said about fifteen business days, and that works out to sometime near the end of this coming week. So the plan is:
Once I'll get confirmation that the new chair is coming, I'll schedule a pickup from Recology. Come to find out, since they're our main trash/recycling/compost company for pretty much the entire city, we get one free bulk furniture pickup per year. Sweet! All I need to do now is figure out how to snake the love seat out of Spare Oom, hook it through the hallways and through the front door, down the elevator (I think it fits...?) and out onto the sidewalk. All I know is that this will entail me moving one of the bookshelves and its contents, two of my guitars, and hopefully nothing else. I don't rightly remember how we managed to get it in here other than that I'd accidentally scraped one of the legs against the wall and you can still see the scar. Oops!
Other than that, I've decided this coming week is the week I Get Off My Arse.
I've been pathetically lazy the last few weeks, and I'll let myself have that, if only because I was still getting used to the new schedule around here. But the time has come for me to get back on the horse again and continue my morning exercises. I'd also like to start up on my planned idea of doing a circuit around the neighborhood on the days we aren't going to the gym after work. I really need to start moving again, because a) I can tell I've put some weight back on, and b) I'm getting SUPER lazy again. That needs to change, stat!
Hope everyone has a good week! :)
As said, the sheets were done as well. We'd bought a new comforter some time ago and I'd forgotten to put on the bed skirt, so this time I threw it on while I let the mattress air out in the meantime. I've just put a new set of sheets on and will throw the comforter on a little later. And I ended my day of cleaning by running the trash, recycling and compost down.
SO! This means all that's left is for me to get rid of the old cushions and the love seat. I have not yet heard from Home Reserve when it will be coming, but they said about fifteen business days, and that works out to sometime near the end of this coming week. So the plan is:
Once I'll get confirmation that the new chair is coming, I'll schedule a pickup from Recology. Come to find out, since they're our main trash/recycling/compost company for pretty much the entire city, we get one free bulk furniture pickup per year. Sweet! All I need to do now is figure out how to snake the love seat out of Spare Oom, hook it through the hallways and through the front door, down the elevator (I think it fits...?) and out onto the sidewalk. All I know is that this will entail me moving one of the bookshelves and its contents, two of my guitars, and hopefully nothing else. I don't rightly remember how we managed to get it in here other than that I'd accidentally scraped one of the legs against the wall and you can still see the scar. Oops!
Other than that, I've decided this coming week is the week I Get Off My Arse.
I've been pathetically lazy the last few weeks, and I'll let myself have that, if only because I was still getting used to the new schedule around here. But the time has come for me to get back on the horse again and continue my morning exercises. I'd also like to start up on my planned idea of doing a circuit around the neighborhood on the days we aren't going to the gym after work. I really need to start moving again, because a) I can tell I've put some weight back on, and b) I'm getting SUPER lazy again. That needs to change, stat!
Hope everyone has a good week! :)
