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Monday, October 17, 2005 

overwhelmed

i am overwhelmed by the amount of work that still remains... i have yet to finish painting. and to buy the vinyl. sherwin williams is not a potential source b/c they only do apartments and places with short turn over times. low quality stuff. but it looked good! anyhoo... am thinking home depot again.just need to get it over with. plans to stain the vanity a darker tone seems to be too optimistic at this point. haven't grouted or sealed seams on the shower enclosure.
on top of this i also have to mow the lawn and apply weed and feed for winterization. tomorrow the sprinkler guys coming around for the blow-out. is charging me $10 more than regular. but apparently, i can't haggle right now. their demand is higher than what my business is worth to them so they couldn't care less.
none of the above is made easy by ramadan. how can a person fasting for 12 hours do physically demanding manual labour? but i don't want to miss a single day of fasting. winter is closing in so remodel needs to be wrapped up asap. i really don't know what to do... the last time i was priming drywalls while fasting - i had nuerous dizzy spells on account of having to go up and down the ladder a million times. the space is too cramped to have the paint tray on the ladder - so every time i need to dip the rollers i had to come back down. i will need to repeat all that while painting. i can't motivate myself to do that. yesterday, sat around at friends' house for 7 hours for no reason. while all this work remained undone. i am so demoralized that i can't even visualize an end to all this. i am hoping some kind of an auto pilot will set in as handyman deadline approaches and i will get everything done. or perhaps some kind of pre-christmas miracle. either way - i need to get my ass in gear... but i am so tired.

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