paint

The main job for this weekend is to paint the kitchen. We have spent time over the last two days cleaning the walls and ceiling - a tricky job as the previous owner of this dear house used to smoke and fry food a lot. We found a solution to the ceiling cleaning carefully using our wallpaper steamer. This had to be carefully done as the steamer will remove artex if left on it for too long. Today while the husband is at work I will lay cloths in the kitchen and start on the walls. I am having to be slightly more careful of how much I do at the moment as my body has decided to throw other illnesses my way at the moment, most noticeably a shore throat and a funny pain in my side, the latter of which the doctor is running various tests to see what might be causing it. In most people a poorliness would slow you down a bit, when you have CFS you have to make sure you slow down more so that the CFS symptoms don't increase as your body fights the other ills. In other news we have done all of our Christmas shopping, and as presents wait to be wrapped I get to sit next to a fair few Yankee Candles as I type this. The smell of the unlit candles is amazing. If anyone ever wants to cheer this doofas up a Yankee Candle would go a long way to doing that. I am tempted to not wrap these presents until the last minute just to benefit from their fragrances.