The problem, for anyone that's never been in my room, is that my room tends to generate a prodigious amount of dust. We swept and vaccuumed up a lot of dust, but there was still much more floating in the air or irritating our nostrils, etc. We had some windows open and that helped, but when I went to bed I had closed them, and it took a while since my nose was itchy and my skin was sore (dust can give me a rash). Anyways, the center of the room is now almost completely open, so that's a good thing. I'm hoping that tonight I'll be able to leave work early so I can get things a bit more orderly.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to wake up fast enough to get my tire repaired, so I drove Mom's car to work. My goal is to get to sleep early and do it tomorrow... I don't have 100% confidence that I'll pull it off, but I can hope anyways.....