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fox ([personal profile] fox) wrote2012-03-26 04:18 pm

some successes

1. As I said earlier, I bathed the miniblinds from both bedrooms of my apartment. The project was ... I'm going to call it mostly successful. They were crazy dusty, but not in a way I was having any success cleaning while they were hung up, because the dust wouldn't come away on a dry cloth or duster, and with any kind of product the dust clumped up but still didn't come away on the cloth. Oy. Down they came and into a hot bath with some dishsoap, bleach, and vinegar, and when they came out they were cleaner but kind of muddy. Still, not dusty now, so maybe cleaning them with some spritzer will be easier now. I don't know if I'll do the same with the blinds from the living room and kitchen. It was kind of a pain. But I don't think those ones are as dusty, for some reason.

2. I did move the "dining room" blinds down to cover only the bottom half of the window, so I could put the stained glass Gentleman Caller gave me for Christmas up in the top half. I am very pleased with my handiwork.

3. Got a call from the super-dupervisor who was the last person I spoke to last Thursday, giving me a variety of updates w/r/t the details of my dental insurance, but the upshot is that they are reversing their decision and paying for my crown, which is all I really care about just now (as well as going forward, to be frank, because the only teeth I had previous restorative work done on were #30 and #31, and with this crown they'll both have been canaled and crowned and I have every confidence I won't need to make another claim on either of them in the next five years).