Hi Sams
Yesterday I made a start on preparing to paint walls in B–, C—– and ‘R—-’s/T—’s bedrooms. I found my ipod / logitech speakers and figured out how to make it work…. Finally…… with music from the past (Inuyasha, Classical Beethoven, Carole King, Michael Jackson, Good Charlotte Atomic Kitten, etc, etc, etc) providing my motivation, I started with cleaning all the dusty areas: windowsills, ceiling fans and shelves in ‘R—-’s/T—’s room where I found T—’s babyhood toy – the barn with little farm animals and farmer with the tractor and C—–’s castle with soldiers.
Well, the barn was minus some of the animals so I searched through the ‘animal box’ to find the missing mammals and while I was doing that, I found some Bratz accessories. I put the barn and C—–’s castle aside for cleaning later, and then washed down the bedroom walls. After they were spider-webless and clearer of other stuff (ask T— about his big cleaning wall session after a night out – there is always those tiny splatters that you keep finding months after the event) old blue tac, finger-marks, and so on, I took out the Bratz box to return the little accessories.
And what befell my eyes? 24 naked, tangled Bratz!! How could I just close the lid on them?!! So I spent a couple of hours sitting on the kitchen floor surrounded by Bratz – matching up shoes and dolls, suitable combinations of clothes and accessories while the little ipod continued to pump out my favourite tunes. I did think about googling Bratz to see if I could be technically correct with their clothing but thought that was a little too obsessive. I was amazed to find that after all these years, only one shoe was missing and then, low and behold, when I went to wash the barn and castle today – there was the missing shoe – in the dungeon of the castle!!
So – all the Bratz are now attired, the barn, animals, castle and soldiers are glistening clean (although the mother pig is missing from the barn) and the bedroom walls are ready for painting next weekend.
I am going to ring C—– later today for a catch up and will also ask him if he wants me to keep the castle – or if I should give it away as part of the downsizing I need to do prior to moving…. I am finding the whole thought of downsizing daunting – especially when I think about the whole office of stuff at A—’s and all the furniture, toys and resources in the shipping container out there – let alone all the stuff in the ‘bat cave’!! Being a hoarder is not a helpful trait when contemplating a relocation!! So far I have managed to part with some old magazines and egg cartons…. It’s a start!!
Anyway – it must be time to have a cuppa, return the barn and castle to the cupboard until I have had the relevant conversations and come up with a couple of other procrastination tactics before starting my school work. This week we are probably going to move the grade 7s down to the demountables – as the new Year 7 hub, until the replacement of C Block is built. The decision about when to move the Grade 7s has been a bit of a saga with G—- not wanting to move this year, K—- and C—- definitely wanting to move this week, me keen to move but feeling awkward about G—- and, again, the idea of actually taking down all my displays is tiresome. The camera man and I have continued with our eye-rolling!!
Love ya – and wish you were ‘helping me’ with the Bratz yesterday….
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