Sunday, February 14, 2021

 Beth and I spent the weekend cleaning and rearranging the downstairs. We moved around all the furniture, specifically so we could get the couch downstairs. We've always hated that couch since the day we got it home. Anyway, the matching couch and loveseat are now both down there, and the glider rocker and green recliner are back in the living room. We made a few hard decisions about Things, which turned out to be not so hard after all, mostly about getting rid of Things. Almost all of our DVDs are now gone, since we have streaming everything and many have never been watched. Missy thinned out a couple of totes of stuffed animals (we didn't have a teddy bear toss last year, thanx 2 covid). A lot of puzzles are gone. A lot of books, including a lot of cookbooks, are gone. A lot of old toys are gone. All of it went to Goodwill. And we cleaned/straightened a lot, otherwise there's no way we could have gotten the loveseat down there. We also removed the shelves that were on the wall, meaning we had to find space for or get rid of a lot of junk. The Ikea box shelves went against the wall that the shelves were on, and the TV went where that thing had been. I also cleaned up Dad's old computer, which I've been dragging my feet on, so I can get rid of it. By cleaned up, I mean I moved out all the photo files I might want, and deleted everything else. I haven't been able to figure out how to fully wipe the hard drive without having the re-installation media, so actual disposing of it will have to wait until I can.....I bought flowers for Beth for Valentine's Day, but we did nothing else.....Natalie had ISTEP this week, which again is held in Mishawaka, so Beth had to drive her out there each testing day. The first day, she had one of her attacks/episodes, whatever they are, so she got no testing done and Beth and a teacher had to basically carry her back down to the car. I think she got all flustered because her computer wasn't working very well at the test site and she wasn't sure what to do. Anyway, she did get the rest of the testing done on subsequent days, though.....Missy worked a play at school through her tech theatre class. She was running the lights for it......