It's 5am - why am I here?

It's 5am - why am I here and not in bed? Didn't go to sleep until 11 last night, so it's not like I got a full night and woke up naturally. I was dreaming of elephant ears with cinnamon sugar on them, so I woke up at 4am with a CRAVING for cinnamon sugar. At 4:45 or so I gave up on the tossing and turning and got up to make myself some cinnamon toast. I'm sitting here yawning. I know I'm tired, but I also know that my mind is spinning with all the stuff I have to get done today, and I'm still a bit hungry.

After I posted last I was completely useless for the rest of the day - go figure. All I did was hit Ikea and purchase the new dining set. Didn't get it assembled as planned, but got it in the door, so that's a start.

Yesterday was fairly busy for me. Vacuumed the stairs (that's a job that sucks without a stair attachment. Need to look into whether one is available for my model of vacuum, which is perfect in every other way), vacuumed and mopped the kitchen and bathrooms, moved all the old table and chairs into the kitchen, where they are much better proportioned to the space, and assembled 8 dining room chairs most of the way.

( to do list revisited )

Still a lot left on the list and not that many items checked-off despite all the work I put in yesterday. Hopefully today will strike more things. It better, after all, I'm starting at 5am - sigh.

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Finished assembling the furniture. One of the seat cushions is stained and the table top is a bit of a mess (neon yellow wood-glue showing through the urethane in one spot and the hardware installed wonky so it closes with a gap) so we'll have to go back and exchange those bits, but it's mostly done. I can live with it for the week my parents are here anyway.

When I'd mostly finished putting the table together and hit that 2-person step that all the larger Ikea furniture has (where you just need a second set of hands to support the weight of some long piece that's only held up by one end for like 5 minutes) I crawled back into bed to wake Jason. We had a few quiet moments, which of course meant the baby woke up, and he got to feel it kick! Finally it co-operates. Usually the second his hand goes to my belly it calms right down. We think it likes the heat. But this morning there was no stopping. All kinds of thumps and bumps.

Stinks to high heaven here. Apparently there's a massive 90,000 acre brush fire that has eaten up two towns up near Dallas. I'm amazed we can smell it from this far away.

I think I might go have a shower and finish off the last few things that need to be done in my parents' room. Then maybe tidy my room and the game room up a bit. And of course the kitchen is still half-done from earlier this week, so that has to get done too. That should keep me busy for most of the day until Jason gets home so I can go buy the step ladder and hang the downstairs curtains. I'm thinking I should reward myself with sushi tonight (vegetarian sushi with no raw fish, I know the stupid rules *sigh*).

All in all, I'm not going to get the entire to-do list done (I never really planned to) but I'm on target to have the place looking decent at least. Off to work...