If I tell you that my Christmas tree is still up, will that give you the idea?
Usually January is spent on cleaning and catching up on home things after overdosing on holiday framing. Besides taking inventory and doing the books for the business, I try to sort of take care of things that got behind and also do some projects like couch covering and curtains. Down the cellar, I have to set up some clothing racks that just came in today to hang up what can’t fit in closets that I’ve stored downstairs but the racks broke under the weight (I really hate design engineers who have never used a clothes rack and so think plastic ends are okay to hold the bars together). Since the clothes, in storage bags, are heaped on the floor in a room where I have tried to store all those things that you can’t use nor can you toss away, once they’re hung on the new racks I can put away the Christmas tree. And all the spare computer parts like monitors, scanners, cases, etc. from the recent upgrade. And the Melitta one:one coffee maker that I told my neighbor I wouldn’t use but got anyway for Christmas.
In the middle of all this, I broke down and got a Mac laptop so where do you think I’m spending all my time instead of doing all the above?
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