The Daily Grind

The title above is referring to the daily list of things to do around that house that seems to stack ever higher throughout the day, and as time progresses, the week. By the end of the week, you are just ready for a respite from the work you "must" do, just to remain sane in your home.

Some of the things to which I refer are as follows:

1. cook dinner
2. clean up dinner
3. sweep floors
4. check mail/throw away junk mail (This one can sneak up on you...before you realize it, you have a counter full of junk mail that could go in the trash recepticle about two steps over.)
5. charge your phone
6. take the garbage out
7. put away clothes
8. do laundry (obviously, not in this particular order)

Anyway, you get the gist of what I am trying to say. It is frustrating. You don't really get anything big done, but you piddle away all of your time trying to stay on top of all of these. In addition, if you are working on any projects around the house that don't pertain to those normal items, there goes your evening for sure.

I have been moonlighting with a paint brush for the better part of a month now. Pretty much every week, I am painting something, often into the wee hours of the morn. It is kind of relaxing for me, in a way. I can put on some music or a podcast (Rebecca can sleep through anything, if I don't want to use headphones), and just lose myself in it. Enough of even something that can help you just zone out grows old though. That is the point I hit last week. I don't think it was that bad until all of the contents of the kitchen had been in the floor of about 2 other rooms for over a week. That is when it hit me! I cannot stand this to be torn apart a minute longer than it must.

Tonight, for instance, we just did little stuff around here. Rebecca and I cooked some ginger chicken over rice. We ate it while watching some Heroes that I had downloaded last night. If you don't watch that show, I highly recommend you begin. Then, we just started doing some of those odd things around the house. Both of us seemed to be busy for the next hour and a half, but doing what exactly? One thing was putting the guest bedroom back together. I had done about 5 loads of laundry and had washed the guest sheets. We had just not put that bed back together yet. It was starting to get to me. There were also some photographs I had bought that needed to be put in frames. We got it all put back together, and almost killed each other in the process.

For some reason, a tension just developed. I know, I tend to have a way that I want things to go, and if they don't happen like that, I get frustrated. Nevermind the fact that I don't normally vocalize my thoughts about how said projects are supposed to go. Thus, that explains Rebecca's frustration. Poor girl. We ended up shouting at each other, and when it came right down to it...we cannot even remember why. We just had a tension in this house that built to an uncontrolable level. Anyway, we apologized to each other, and still love one another. ha ha

That is just a little peek into the Daily Grind around my house. What about yours?