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Tasks completed since this weekend:

-Office painting completed

-books boxed up

-M’s room primered, new color selected

-tantrumed about not wanting to move

-hall & stairs primered, color selected, painted

-bookshelf primered, painted

-nasty laundry sink scrubbed for the first time in 3 years (who knew how not-disgusting it could look!)

-rocking chair painted for staging

-47 items purchased at Target because they might look good

-46 items returned to Target because they did not look good

-Ashes cleaned out of fireplace

-scrubbed long-ago spilled fabric softener from basement floor (which looked like a sewage stain? but at least the rag was very soft after all the scrubbing)

-scrubbed downstairs bathroom grout - why didn’t I do this before? It looks 100Xs better.

-yelled at Mr. A because he wasn’t doing enough work to help with the house

-apologized to Mr. A because I was unnecessarily rude during chastizing about not helping

To do this week:

-Trim in kitchen, hall, playroom, stairs

-paint back hallway

-Paint M’s room

-scrub kitchen grout

-Paint kitchen door

-scrub basement walls

-paint basement

-touch up ceiling in office

-paint ceiling in living room

-fix peeling paint from rice cooker on kitchen ceiling

-convince my dad he should stay with me and work on the basement rather than going to Princesses on Ice (probably not a hard sell)