not completely useless

still at home. still sick. have got to the coughing up bits of lung stage, fun. The problem with being at home sick in self imposed isolation is that ... well one is both sick and in isolation- I hate being stuck at home alone on a Sat night :-(

Still, I managed to alter four garments yesterday.
-added buttons to an otherwise lovely green cardi which was designed to tie around the waist in a most unattractive way
-took in - shaped the waist of a new jacket that I bought for $19 marked down from $139
-took up the sleeves of a great denim jacket bought in an opshop in Edinburgh. The sleeves were too long- not such a suprise, but they were also different lengths, what the? by 2.5cm even.
-shortened my old cotton petticoat. This has always been too narrow to stride in. Now it can be dagged about the house in on excruciatingly hot days.

I did another fun thing. The good thing about thinning your carrots is that you have a legitimate excuse to pull them up and see if they are growing. And they are! so cute:



I also got brave and attempted to shift the bathroom towel rail. As predicted given the state of my brain, this did not go well.  Though it wasn't really my brain at fault. It was put up with butterfly screws which you can't take out without dismantling and then you can't put them back. So I am about to brave the hardware store to buy some more. I'll try not to breathe on anyone.

Wish my house was clean and tidy- it so isn't. Maybe I will at least do the dishes before the hardware excursion.

a piece of advice

if you have a cold with attendant sore nose...and are silly enough to also play about with plasterboard and spackle....DON'T rub your nose! ouch. I suppose plasterboard has lime or some such in it. Sort of like doing ill advised things with fingers covered in chilli residue.

I do hope Bash went well today. I am sad to not have gone. The weather was fan-jolly-tastic.

It sounds odd to be writing of reno work while claiming to be too ill for Bash. However I have only enough energy to be upright for about 20min at a time. I didn't want to get halfway to bash and then come over all woozy, or breathe on people and pass this unpleasantness on. So I rest on the couch until I am bored, then go do bits of useful things until I need to recline again. In ~20min bursts with 30-60min rest in between I have:

-been to the local hardware, bought butterfly screw things and paint
-put up the towel rail in it's new spot, about 15cm from it's old one, how exciting. One side went really well. The other was a bother as there was not enough hole to use the butterfly thing and not enough wood for a normal screw. Might try again  later with one of those plastic plasterboard screw things.
-drilled holes for the toilet roll holder and guest towel ring. Need to paint before I can put them up.*
-taken down the luggage rack in the kitchen- and was forceably reminded of the hole in the wall it was hiding
-filled said hole by carving up a bit of plasterboard
-spackled old holes etc. Spackling is fun. It mixes up like icing then you get to trowel it into all those holes. Rather satisfying.

So my aim from here is to get the painting of the bathroom done over the next few weeks so the new cupboards can go in rather than cluttering up the dining room.  No energy left for that today. Now i really need couch time.

* I suspect this is not the recommended order of operation. I just wanted to do my drawing on the wall etc before the pretty new paint went up.