Wednesday afternoon

I am pretty pleased with myself.  

I had some energy, I cleaned out the big cupboard in the kitchen and also did the stove.  I have found the Method spray cleaner (pink grapefruit) to be very effective and it doesn't aggravate Ron.  It can be hard to find a cleanser he is OK with.  And it gets grease, so, yay.  

Anyway I did all that put some liners and decided to test the burners.  I don't use the stove very often I am more likely to use the rice or crock pots.  The right side worked fine but the left side wouldn't light.  

I took everything off the stove and opened the lid.  I could see a small flame on the right (gas stove of course) but not the left.  So, the light was probably out.  

I had a couple of choices.  I am very leery of anything to do with gas appliances.  Normally I let someone else handle it.  But it probably just needed a light.  I remembered seeing a technician light the stove with a long handled lighter years ago when Ron accidentally got the gas cut off.  When they turned it on, they had to come out and light everything.  

I had a long handled lighter.  So I fired it up, and the pilot lit.  I closed the top and tried the burner knob, both front and back lit nicely.  So, that was done.  

In a lot of ways I was sort of programmed to be helpless so it's a big deal.  

I also often don't initiate cleaning, think "Now's a good time to clean the kitchen" but I am starting to wire myself that way.  Hope the social worker doesn't read that!  LOL  What I mean: I generally clean when I have energy I just have to recognize it, I am a lot better at that now.  It is easier to keep a home nice than to fix it.  

But the kitchen looks great now.  I am glad I got the liners in there it looks so much better.  I have the square kind, the gas stoves often have them.  I do like cooking on the gas stove but I'd be lying if I said it doesn't make me nervous.  

Ron's parents had those old time gas space heaters, now those made me very nervous and gave me terrible headaches, too.  Only the poorest old houses have those, I think, in Houston.  We have a gas furnace and it gets the house TOASTY in the winter, the first time, to be honest, I was ever really warm in the winter since Virginia.  Conventional electric furnaces are either too expensive to run to a pleasant level or just not up for the job.  I am very happy we bought a house with a gas furnace.  

After I did half this post I took a shower and shaved my legs.  That is a lot more important in the summer.  I have some really good razors they last forever and do the job.  That's one thing I don't cheap out on, razors and toilet paper (if at all possible).  Even female supplies I can generally find something but not the razors.  I tend to have some more energy in the late afternoon most days.  The plan is to just take my shower in the afternoon every day, we will see how that works out.  

It is better for germ warfare as virus can hitch a ride on clothes/hair so better to wash it off.  

Totally unrelated note my "I am up do you need anything?" routine with Ron is working very well.  That way he isn't interrupting me.  

I made a delivery order then talked to Ron (wrong order), he said he did not want the protein bars (I only refer to them as salted caramel nut to him), I had to cancel that.  I also found my measuring cups so I could cancel them.  

Oh, I forgot the water I need to put that on.  I will check in later.