Sunday 10 February 2013

The Best Laid Plans ...

J played in a bar billiards contest this weekend and because his car is in the garage he needed to use mine on Saturday. I had my week end mapped out.

Saturday
- Cook breakfast
- Wish husband luck and kiss him goodbye
- Stitch all day, stopping only to prepare and eat food

Sunday
- Cook breakfast
- Wish husband luck and kiss him goodbye
- Visit Mum and Dad
- Do grocery shopping
- Stitch for the rest of the day
This is how I actually spent my weekend.

Saturday
- Cook breakfast
- Wish husband luck and kiss him goodbye
- Waste time doing nothing in particularly for an hour and a half
- Work on Tree Creepers for an hour and a half
- Stop for lunch and put on a casserole for dinner
- Spend two hours clearing ivy and nettles from lane
- Work on Pouchette for an hour and an half
- Start to vacuum bedroom
- Investigate why vacuum cleaning is not cleaning carpet
- Spend 30 minutes removing hair extensions from vacuum brushes
- Vacuum bedroom
- Spend 2 hours spring cleaning half of bedroom
- Greet returning husband with kiss
- Eat dinner
- Collapse in a heap

Sunday (revised plan to finish cleaning bedroom)
- Take down vertical blinds from patio window (with J’s help), notice that patio door needs cleaningv - Realise there is not enough time for cooked breakfast, have cereals instead
- Wish husband luck and kiss him goodbye
- Put blinds into bath to soak, notice that stair walls are grubby
- Fill bucket with soapy water to wash patio doors, notice sink is looking stained
- Poor bleach down plug hole and fill sink with bleach/water
- Wash down stair walls then hall walls, doors and door frames
- Wash down patio doors
- Remove plug in kitchen sink and notice that water is slow to empty
- Use plunger to unblock kitchen sink and notice that water is running into cupboard under sink
- Drain water from unbend under sink and notice that it is full of gunge
- Dismantle plumbing system below sink and notice that it is all full of gunge
- Remove as much gunge as possible and leave plumbing in hot water and disinfectant
- Visit Mum and Dad
- Do grocery shopping
- Return home
- Finish spring cleaning the bedroom
- Clean patio door windows
- Put away shopping
- Start dinner
- Greet returning husband with a kiss
- Clean and reassemble plumbing with help of J
- Eat dinner
- Collapse in a heap!

Some weekends don’t work out the way we would like!

Happy Stitching

5 comments:

Rachel said...

I hope that sometime soon you get two days straight of stitching to make up for it!

Cynthia Gilbreth said...

I've done that so many times - plan on stitching for two or three days straight and end up cleaning. Oh well, at least the cleaning is done and things look good, right?

Sue said...

oh well that's life I didn't know you had hair extensions????? How did this weekend go? Sue XX

Angela said...

lol, this post made me smile, most of my weekends end up running to a 'revised' plan ;-)

Elizabethanne said...

How did you manage to fit all that into one week end? I was tired after reading Saturday :-) Don;t want to visit & do mine by any chance? :-) :-)