Active night, active morning

[ailbhe]

Last night we slept downstairs because I was so ill I was running to the bathroom at approx. 15 minute intervals. This started at about 9:45 and by midnight I was getting quite scared. Luckily, I'm all better now. But I haven't slept much and I had some very "yup, I'm illin'!" dreams.

Sleeping in a strange place meant I woke earlier than usual, and by eight o'clock I had started clearing out the spare room. Since the wedding, we've been dumping all the stuff we don't know what to do with in there, and it had become impassable. And this weekend, my friend Aoife is coming to visit (wahey! yippee! hurrah! *bounce*bounce*) and will need somewhere to sleep. So I started clearing it.

At about 8:45 Rob came to ask me to help with Mustard's antibiotic (more about Mustard's state of health later) and I realised that I'd done approximately 3 hours' work in 45 minutes. I must be feeling better. I've sorted out some coats and jackets to be stored in the attic until we can sit down and decide what we need and what we should give away or sell, and I've sorted some of the bills, bank statements, Open University bumf etc that needs to be filed. No, I haven't filed it, but it's sorted. I also found a little floorspace. The trick now is to decide what to do with the shelving we've been storing there - a small stack of 6" x 6-8' planks waiting for a wall to call their own.

We really so need to convert the loft. If we had cupboard space up there, we could store everything currently shoved into piles in the attic, and if we had an extra room, I couldmove my desk up there. The spare room will be a child's room eventually anyway, so we need to get it more or less emptied of our random junk.

We need to throw things away. I just don't know what. All the letters I've kept from friends and family since I was 8? That seems like a terrible thing to ditch. Perfectly good coats that I used ot wear all the time and now don't for reasons I don't understand? Maybe that's a better thing to ditch. Some of them are saleable, I suspect; I know a lot of people who sell their old clothes on ebay. Giving valuable things to charity is less appealing with only one income in the house. Maybe I can exchange some of my old clothes for baby clothes, or something? Some of the coats and jackets are pretty ok, really.

Yeah, I need a swap shop.