More preparations

The families are coming. Now that the guest list is sort of settled, and I'm not too terribly worried about the meal planning bit, I'm trying to get the house in order for a holiday gathering. Stop Laughing. It's possible.

And by ready.... I mean that it should look a little more finished after three and a half years of occupancy. So I'm sprucing up some simple stuff: Restore the front door, hang sheers on the front window, evict the cardboard box garden growing in front of the window, unearth M's rocking chair (possibly recover M's rocking chair), find a storage solution that works for our DVD mountain, hang a picture above the piano, dust the piano, corral the music, find Inez's metronome...

That's just the living room. It's not so much decorating as it is Acting Like A Grown Up And Putting My Shit Away.

In the kitchen/dining room, we have a lot more of ALAGUAPMSA to do, and I need to find/hang some wall art, clean up the sawdust from having the door/windows installed, move out the curio to make room for a sideboard, repurpose the white table/sewing table/guest room table into said side board, and clean clean clean.

The bathroom is pretty lovely, so that just needs to be clean-clean-clean-ed. And the hallway can be decluttered and as long as we shut all the doors no one will notice too much that there's chaos brewing within.

The back patio needs to be cleaned up, too, but that may be beyond the scope of the holiday. The front entry needs to be cleared off, swept, the metal entry door needs to be cleaned and repainted. The trim below it is ugly ugly ugly, but filling/sanding/painting that out is more handy-man work than K-work. The gross wicker chair thing needs to go to the dump, either in pieces in the trash or on one good haul with a borrowed truck. (If the latter, then we should also dispose of the pruned tree limbs and other clutter in the back yard).

I'm getting tired just thinking about it. Phew. But I love all the areas we've cleared up lately. And I'm hoping we'll be able to keep on clearing up spaces, and eventually get to the painting of walls and fixing of electrical outlets and other little repairs we need to do.