I even felt a bit better on Monday and Tuesday, but I had a pre-op doctor appointment scheduled for Wednesday afternoon. So, I was a good person and did the at-home COVID test that morning and behold it was positive. Woohoo!
I quickly moved into the bedroom over the garage which is our most colorful room of the house at least - two pink walls, one yellow wall, and one blue wall. I've had 2 out of 3 of the cats come visit. I have gone with a mask on to the bathroom and downstairs when no one else is home (followed by Lysol being sprayed).
The room is the one I have worked on the most in the last month in preparation of moving. It is the room Joanna lived in before moving downstairs in fall 2019 when Rose left for The Evergreen State College. Although, many toys were given away before that day, not everything was. The fall of 2019 included the whole family being involved with a beautiful production of Les Miserables. Joanna was in the ensemble, John was the sound designer, Jonahtan ran the spotlight, and I volunteered in lots of other capacities. My dad and Mary were still in independent living at Waterford Terrace but needed weekly medicatoin management and help with anything Waterfod did not provide for them. They actually came to the performance with my brother Andy when he came to town.
Then there was a holiday show at Young Actors Theatre and then Matilda in February where Joanna was one of John's sound operators instead of in the show. However, I still did all my normal volunteering. So, when the pandemic hit in March 2020, some of our lives stopped, the theater part, but the remote church part got much busier for John and myself. Therefore, I was not the type that used the "shutdown" for cleaning out the house as I never lost my job (blessed) and I was taking care of my dad and Mary as described.
That makes this house cleaning out quite the task. This room had a combination of toys, memorabilia, old school items, various odd and ends from around the house, and outgrown clothes. I spent time going through it all in case of missing some important memorabilia or toys that we wanted to keep for little ones that may come over once we are in Indiana. In the end, we had 8 boxes of items to give away to the Disabled Vets, 1 box of Monster High type dolls for a friend, 2 large garbage bags of trash, 2 large garbage bags of recycling, and a couple of boxes worth of stuff important enough to keep.
However, havnig this room mostly cleaned, with all of the furniture drawers cleaned out and the bunk beds cleared off, has allowed me to move into it quite comfortably all things considered. I have turned Joanna's small desk/vanity into a computer area with my tablet playing "Criminal Minds" on Hulu in the background.
I leave you with the view of the door from the bed and Bubba watching to see if any cats come in through the cat flap. Hoping I can leave isolation soon.
