Flylady Day 3

For Day 3 of Beginner Baby Steps, Flylady tells us to do what we've been doing. Get dressed to shoes (or, in my case, a pair of old clogs that function as my slippers, because I'd rather not tramp around the house in my boots), shine the sink, read Flylady reminder e-mails for 2 minutes (hard to avoid, there's so many of them), and to read something from the website.

This morning when I got up my sink was shiny but not empty, but it wasn't my fault. M had some chocolate peanut butter cream pie last night and had put his dirty plate in the sink. :^( We'll have to come up with a method for what to do with dirty dishes when the dishwasher is full of clean ones (it was still drying when I went to bed last night).

So I'm up and I'm dressed in a shirt without printing on it (embroidered logos don't count, right, especially when they're on a shirt with a collar?), and clean jeans. My "morning routine" is going to largely be shifted to the evening - shower, etc. That makes our morning much easier with M getting up and dressed, getting TRex up and dressed, etc.

For my "assigned reading" I read about "Zone Cleaning".   This is what I've tried in the past to do - come up with a schedule for what gets cleaned on each day.  But I'd never been able to stick to it.  I like the idea of doing more than one day in a room - honestly, I think that if I can get into a routine of basic cleaning on a daily basis then the rooms don't need a DEEP CLEAN any more than every couple of weeks.

So there you have it.  Tomorrow's thing is to write all of these things down on a Post-It.

How can I not like a system that involves Post-Its?  I mean, really.

Hippie meme from helwen

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Off I run...

to the store to buy garlic and OJ so that I can try out parsedgarnish's Garlic Thyme Chicken recipe which sounds just brilliant.  And since I don't have anything ELSE planned for dinner tonight, the timing is fortuitous.  (Oooh, SAT word.)

Also, you gotta love having a plumber who manages to come out for a minor problem the same day you call, even when they're still dealing with storm fallout.  If you have to call a plumber, that is.  (We apparently have a very small leak somewhere related to the kitchen sink, because we have damp carpet and drywall in the basement right below the kitchen sink.  Have I mentioned that I hate water?  I hate water.  Ever since the great toilet tank crack of Fall 2002 (I think it was 2002 - the last time that EK Crown was in Stonemarche), I hate water.)

There was some other inanity I was going to blather at you about, but I don't remember what it was.  So off I go to do the lunch dishes and then to the store.  And then home to wait for the plumber and work on my stinking lit review.  I hate lit reviews.

Plumber Update

Score ... 3?  4?  Something like that.  Anyway, score again for the previous homeowners dumbass home improvement decisions.  When they finished off what is now the laundry room, they plugged up one of the floor drains. Except that it wasn't done well, and the sewer had backed up around it.  Hooray!  More sewer in our basement!  Sewer in our NEW CARPET!  HOORAY!!!  In the room that's going to be TRex's playroom!  HOORAY!  Our friendly plumbers (who I call "The Joe and Steve Show" because they are a HILARIOUS father-and-son team) came over, found the problem in relatively short order, and plugged up the drain in a much more permanent manner.

I guess this answers the question of will we be going to a birthday party Saturday afternoon... we'll be shampooing the carpet in that area instead.  (And while we've got a carpet shampooer rented, I'll probably do some other areas, too.)  And this winter we'll be having adventures in drywall (to replace the stuff that got wet/nasty) and painting (because while we're at it, we'll go ahead and paint the room).  Go, us.  Should we let TRex pic out the colors?  ;^)

Also, a prize to anybody who can figure out where we actually DO have a functioning floor drain.

Incidentally, one reason I like our plumbers is because Joe takes the time to explain to you exactly what's going on, how the plumbing works, etc.  I like that in a plumber.

Geeky amazement

OK, this is just scary.  (Also read the Halloween entry.)