When I woke up Wednesday morning I was determined that I would get something small checked of my list of 'things to do before the baby comes'.  I decided I would tackle the squeaky rocking chair and all of the creaking doors with WD40, and lo and behold it worked.  Ten minutes of labour = a much more relaxed me.  Why did I put that task off for so long?

This morning I felt just as productive.  I remembered how wonderful the non-squeaky doors had felt to accomplish and with that in mind I tackled two more little jobs that had gotten swept under the carpet for too long.  We have a very nice maple dining room set but one of the chairs had a spindle between two legs that had fallen off and needed to be re-glued.  In the meantime we'd replaced that broken wooden chair with an old pink office chair.  The thing was, I never got around to gluing the wooden chair.  I had wood glue, I had time, I just never put the two together and chose to live with the ugly pink swivvle chair instead!  This morning I spent, oh, maybe a minute and glued the spindle back on.  Once that glue sets we will once again have a functional, and significantly more attractive, dining room set.

The second thing I did was fix the taps on the back of the washer.  Several months ago I had had to pull out the washer to attend to a leak and when I re-attached the two hoses to the hot and cold water taps I somehow mixed them up.  I realized it right away, but I just didn't fix it, figuring a few loads of hot wash wasn't going to harm anything and I would get it later in the week.  Except, of course, that I didn't get it until this morning, weeks and weeks later.  This means every single time I did a load of laundry in the past several weeks, I've washed and rinsed it in hot water - think of the energy I've wasted!  The switching of the hoses required maybe five minutes of fiddling with a wrench and it was done.

I felt a million times more productive with those two small tasks done this morning than I have with almost anything this past week!