{"id":34209,"date":"2022-10-10T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=34209"},"modified":"2023-06-17T10:59:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T10:59:37","slug":"do-all-the-things-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/do-all-the-things-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Do. All. The. Things. Part. 2."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[Photos taken 10 – 14 October 2023, posted online 17 June 2023. This day marks 29 years of togetherness with Finnur!<\/em>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The month between having jobs had me itching to Do. All. The. Things. that typically are easy to not-do due to one thing or the other. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week included lunch with mom, summoning electricians, getting a piano-tuner, and attempts at interior decorating, in between the usual shuttling of children, and hanging out at cafes to recharge mental batteries… and plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday 10 October 2022<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Having lunch with mom! We tried the cafe Hygge<\/a>, and it was indeed quite hygge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Somewhat artfully arranged temptations.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Trying on glasses as mom picked something up, perhaps should have just bought those? My current glasses are terribly ugly.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Prepping for the next day, I’d found an electrician willing to tackle a ton of small jobs, exciting! Less exciting was our laundry machine beginning to fail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Tuesday 11 October 2022<\/h3>\n\n\n
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The electricians<\/a> showed up on time, I gave them a tour, and as they got to work upstairs, we got to work clearing out cupboards so they could replace the kitchen under-side light-fixtures (this is post-fix). Yay, I could see what I was doing again! (Finnur thought it was a wee bit too much bright light, sigh.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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As a reminder, when one part of the house looks tidy, this is the other view…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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… along with this. The blue box contained the vast majority of our spices. I ended up going through them, and tossing a good chunk out. I think the oldest thing I found was close to 20 years old, and many things (including cake mixes!) had followed us all the way from the US in 2010.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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We had to empty an overflowing bookcase (with doors) to move it, so this pile appeared on the floor. The doors usually hide a pile of stuff that I generally don’t have mental energy to deal with, like photos, cards, old CDs and the like. (Finnur is a natural hoarder, he has no inclination to go through old things to toss half of it out, whereas all this stuff lives in my brain, and clogs it up, so I need to get rid of some of it!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Meanwhile, outside, it was pouring with rain, and a sizeable puddle had formed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Found the culprits, lots of dead leaves blocking the drains.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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So satisfying!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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I’m not sure that the next owners of the house will love this solution, but we needed an electrical outlet for the piano, and this works, for us. And so, after a whole day’s work, the electricians had completed everything I’d asked them to do (minus one high elevation job that we deemed ill advised). They ended up also replacing the randomly-functional halogen lamps in the upper bathroom with led lights, getting a wired internet connection up to the second floor (instead of a cable snaking up the stairs), and switching out tv antenna outlets for electrical outlets.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Wednesday 12 October 2022<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Another to-do item: Get the piano tuned. The cabinet was still empty, its innards on the floor. Yay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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I decided to use my awesome white spackle to shrink the hole around the new cable. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Out and about, look, blue skies!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Thursday 13 October 2022<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Bjarki fresh from physio, about to get some caf\u00e9 goods. Couldn’t resist taking another blue-sky photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Went looking for more notebooks, as my anxiety had been lowered considerably by writing stuff down.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Friday 14 October 2022<\/h3>\n\n\n
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On the hunt for storage boxes…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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… and a chair or two for the living room… (not these)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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… and perhaps side tables…. (nope)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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… or wall shelves…?!?! (Nah)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Anna was still under orders to do ankle exercises in the swimming pool, so to the pool we went post-dinner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The boys beat us in getting out of the pool.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Photos taken 10 – 14 October 2023, posted online 17 June 2023. This day marks 29 years of togetherness with Finnur!<\/em>]<\/p>\n

The month between having jobs had me itching to Do. All. The. Things. that typically are easy to not-do due to one thing or the other. <\/p>\n

This week included lunch with mom, summoning electricians, getting a piano-tuner, and attempts at interior decorating, in between the usual shuttling of children, and hanging out at cafes to recharge mental batteries… and plan. <\/p>\n

Monday 10 October 2022<\/h3>\n
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Having lunch with mom! We tried the cafe Hygge<\/a>, and it was indeed quite hygge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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