The preparation

Light came home from college for the holiday. Superman drove up to College Town to get her Tuesday afternoon. I've been using her bedroom for my sewing recently. Some of my sewing stuff was in her room last year when she was at school. It all got moved out into the living room over the summer. Since she went back to school this fall I've been gradually moving the sewing stuff back into her room. With all the sewing I've been doing recently I've really made a mess of her room. There wasn't any room to put the mattress in there. Here it is, leaning up against the wall in the living room, waiting for a place in the bedroom. 

About the time Superman left to get Light, I wandered into the bedroom to begin the clean-up. Yep, I procrastinate. This is a sample of the work I had ahead of me.I got distracted with my sewing table. This is it, after I had spent at least 2 hours in there working on it. What distracted me was my box of thread. I'm saving that for another post since it was so enticing. 
Look carefully at what's on my table there. On the right is my trusty sewing machine. I've put the dust cover on it like a good little girl. My big yellow "Bubba Keg" sits beside the machine. It's a 52 ounce insulated mug that I fill with ice water every day. I try to drink at least one full keg of water every day. If you look carefully to the left of my water keg you might notice a brown bottle. That's a souvenir from my Carribean cruise last winter. It's a bottle of creme rum. I mixed that with the egg nog there to the left of the bottle. It went into that small green mug. Briefly. Then it went into me. Times 3. Yummy stuff!! And that might be one reason it took me as long as it did to get that room ready for Light's homecoming. 

And here we see the ironing board folded up, and do you see that spot of floor there? That's was a recent discovery.
Look! Here's the mattress all set up and ready to use. I got it into the room, but Light's the one who made it up. I was exhausted by then. She made the bed then dumped her dirty clothes on it. Yep, that's my girl.
I felt quite productive, getting all that cleaned up. But it was tough. I sweated!!! I don't like to sweat, people. And I'm so overweight and out of shape that it's difficult to do the bending and lifting required to pick up the messes that I make. Pretty pathetic. BUT hey, I'm focusing on the positive here. It's picked up, organized, and kinda clean-ish. After Light goes back to school on Sunday I'll take the mattress out of there and hopefully do some more sewing. There are many other projects I have in progress. (Ok, actually stalled rather than progressing, but...) I'm really glad I put forth the effort. 

And I had so much fun sorting my thread!! I have pictures. I'll show them and tell you all about it another time.

In the meanwhile, have a happy Thanksgiving. I hope you get to do more of what makes you happy than obligatory crap you'd rather not do.