Housework Ahhha!

I'm reading a series of old posts from Nesting Place (www.thenester.com) on 31 Days to a Less Messy Nest. One of the comments from a woman named Anna struck a nerve. How come I've never figured this out before? No wonder I get so frustrated with housecleaning. 

October 19, 2010 at 11:44 pm

The single most helpful realization I have had about housecleaning was that I am not striving to have things DONE. It’s maintenance, which means it will never end. If you want something done, do a puzzle. ;)

Another week

How is it the 17th already? I swear it was just Wednesday yesterday. Or it certainly feels like it. I had such plans for this past week. Did anything get done? Nope (except a couple loads of desperately needed laundry). It's been weeks since I've vacuumed or dusted (eww). Dishes are piling up again. The stack of mail was tumbling off the table, and then I discovered another stack in the drawer. I have a few items to take care of and was feeling anxious about them being possibly late. Wheew, I haven't missed any deadlines yet. I've got to figure a way out of the "lazy days" attitude I've been in for months now. Too much TV (online since I don't own an actual TV) and internet and not enough chores or projects. I have 3 weeks until my son goes back to college. I wanted to have him help me with several projects around the house. I better hurry!

The new plan - I'm to do 2 things around the house on days I don't work and 1 on days that I do. Seriously my to-do list has 19 items that need to be done in the next week or so. This will definitely make a dent.

Wish me luck.

Great Day

I had such a nice day today with my son. First off the weather was a beautiful high 70's degrees today. Such a welcomed relief from the 95+ of the last few weeks. I spent a great afternoon walking around the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago downtown Chicago. Especially since the first and second Wednesday's of the month is free. Yea free day! We had a late lunch at Panda Express which is a treat because we don't eat out hardly ever. And to top it all off my friend dropped by a thank you bottle of wine for me. I popped it into the refrigerator and am enjoying a glass as I type this.  I would have had a few pictures to post except my batteries never charged. Time for new rechargables I think.

If only every day was this great!

Still Sick

I’ve had a stomach bug for the last few days. I didn’t go work at my job helping a nice elderly lady, Delores, out around her house two days a week.  I will definitely miss the money, but I didn’t want to chance getting her sick (and I really wasn’t feeling up to working yet). I spent the morning watching 3 episodes of Hoarders online followed by some general blog reading / goofing off. I did manage to do a crap load of dishes. I have no dishwasher and absolutely hate washing dishes (probably because I let them go until everything is dirty and piled to the ceiling), although I love when the kitchen is neat and tidy. As a reward for my dish washing perseverance, I got a treat in the mail. Both a Crate and Barrel and Ikea 2012 catalog.

Fun Fact

I was married on 8/8/88 when I was 20 years old. I’ve been divorced for a long, long time.

Plumbing

Yuck. We have a drain backing up in our basement. There is about 2” of water in our furnace room in the building basement. Since I’m on the board, I called out plumbers and they rooted out the drain out to the street. I’ll have our maintenance man bleach and clean the floors. Plumbers really have disgusting jobs at times, I don’t envy them. But with the plumbing problems today we didn’t get to go to our free day at the Art Institute. Maybe next week will work out.

Pink Decor

In celebration of Valentine's Day I give you a post of lovely pink decor. I love pink, its my favorite color. I've never been brave enough to decorate in pink (except for a tiny baby pink laundry room in a long ago house.)

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