I have to say, when it comes to last week's goals, I feel rather proud of myself. No, I haven't completely finished Alvah's carpet yet. I still have the closets to empty, remove the old carpet from, and lay carpet in them. Which also means I have to remove the track from his mirrored closet (scary since those things are heavy) to get under it. Then I also have to have my husband's help in getting the transition strip for the doorway between Alvah's room and the hallway to get everything so you won't trip on a loose carpet edge.
We did not get to cleaning the shingles from the yard last week as we are still getting snow and/or rain here *cue horror movie scream* and it made working outside just not a pleasant, viable experience. We'll get to all of that soon enough, I'm sure.
But, let me show some pictures of what I DID manage to get done around here.
Doing the carpet was a daunting task with doing it around furniture and a grumpy teenager, but I decided to tackle it in two parts. I just did the half that needed the most carpet put down (the half of the room on the same side as his door) and I decided (smart or not) that I was going to do it in one day so that the doorway was done (didn't want to glue myself into a corner if possible so worked my way toward the door). That was a long day and man it took a toll on my sciatica that night...talk about no sleep to be had.
The next day was a bit easier as I just started cleaning up the carpet on the next section of his floor so that the edges were as "puffed up" and evened out as much as possible to line up the new carpet squares with. Man, with the carpet squares, boiling water is SO much easier to use as a cleaner than trying to use actual carpet cleaner on to get ground in gunk (Alvah is very good at ground in gunk) out...it worked well and got the carpet nice and clean to work with for later on. I waited for the carpet to dry out (basically took a day) and the next day I cleaned up the floor and scrubbed it with soap and Borax like I did the other half of his floor. I then used the floor leveler I had to fill in some gouges in the floor that might have made the carpet dip in weird ways and waited another day for that to dry and set. And then, finally, on day three (which ended up being Sunday instead of Friday as we had errands to run and frustration to feel on the garage roof), I put down the rest of the carpet in the main section of his room.
I have been LOVING having a full floor of carpet in the room. You don't have to worry about your footsteps echoing as you are doing something in his room when he's sleeping and being scared to death you are going to wake him up. It looks SO much better. And it is so much easier to vacuum a room when all of the flooring is the same level. We can use one vacuum now instead of worrying about switching between the broom (we end up sweeping the carpets before vacuuming because son throws food everywhere when he eats), the small shop vac we have and the Kirby (Kirby to remove dust and deep clean things, Shop Vac to get under the edges of the room to get anything that might be hiding, etc). Definitely saves time cleaning the room now.
Oh and note: If you are wondering about the mattress against the wall...that's to protect both the son and the wall. He tends to get frustrated and beat on walls (as you can probably tell) and recently has been running full tilt at a wall and can put his knee through it. So, I put the mattress there for now to protect the wall and his knees from damage. I think, once we get the panelling up, my plan is going to be putting in a wall of bookcases that I can affix to the wall for safety (of courses). He doesn't run into bookcases as they aren't a level surface to go after, and it will give me space to put out a bunch of his toys and things that he could use better access too...and protect his head and other body parts from getting potentially harmed when he's in a state. Just need time, and money, to get to that point...story of life, really.
The color of the old carpet vs the new definitely does not match due to its age, but his bed covers like 90% of said carpet anyway and it is clean (even though it looks aged really badly now next to the new stuff), so I am just going to leave it for now. If and when a certain tile gets too bad, we can scrape it up and put a new carpet tile down (why we went with this system to begin with) and it'll all start to blend in time soon enough.
So, yeah, now that the update on last week's goals is done, let's get to this week's goals.
Goals for the Week 4/19 -- 4/25
1. Clean out downstairs desk of old paperwork that is no longer needed. Put into a box to burn later on.
2. Print out all paperwork received from the courts so far on Alvah's guardianship hearing coming up and get it organized (we just got a court date for June and then suddenly are getting court officials e-mailing us paperwork and stuff, so I have GOT to get organized for the sake of my anxiety).
3. Work on carpeting closets in Alvah's room (if I can find time and Alvah's not too grumpy).
4. Figure out where husband put the paneling for the son's room in the garage so that I can start pulling it out and getting it installed as soon as the weather permits (am going to need to cut it outside due to the size).
And there you go folks. My goals for this coming week. What about you? Got anything exciting planned?
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