Still Alive

[sarahmichelef]

In bullet list form...

• Spent 7 to 7.5 hours yesterday cleaning the house.  Am only about half done.  But ZOMG the bathrooms are extra-shiny and we have clean sheets & mattress pads and I even rotated our mattress all by myself.
  
• Super Sekrit Projekt going well, very amusing to me.  More to come upon its completion.
• Put in plastic garden border this weekend.  TRex LOOOOVES worms.  Loves them, is very gentle with them, moves them from the dirt we just dug up to our perennial bed and then covers them with more dirt.
  
• That 100 bulbs for ten bucks box I bought at Aldi?  Totally worth it.  Hopefully this weekend will be lovely so we can do some planting.
• CF light bulbs are cheaper at Aldi than at Target.  PSA and all that.
• TRex has eczema, not some other bizarro rash, so yay.  Also, 35 pounds according to the ped's scale.
• Swimming gets less annoying every time I do it.  But oh, freestyle kills me ded.  And I do need different goggles... no matter what I do, the minute I start to freestyle they fill right up.  And I was very averse to pool water in my eyes even before I wore contacts.
• I think it says something about my fitness level that I'm planning to go for a "short" run today.  Y'know, only a mile and a half.  But, woe, my iPod is out of battery-juice and I didn't have the cable in my bag, so I will be running with ENVIRONMENTAL NOIZE!
  
• Final exam Thursday.  Have spent most of today doing the administrative nonsense that goes with it.  Now administrative nonsense is all done.
• Hooray for webcams and skype, they mean I get to actually SEE Sam instead of just typing at her.
• Per the cleaning spree... I have two things warring within me.  Thing 1: being thrifty/eco-conscious and not throwing things away willynilly.  Thing 2: decluttering, which means occasionally throwing away things that might have been repurposed.

My miscellanea gun, she is out of bullets.  In conclusion, I give you a macro in search of a picture.

My mind, you haz blowed it.

Comments

[dymphna79.livejournal.com]

I have the same struggle with throwing stuff out vs. repurposing. I really have such limited space... I can't keep stuff around until I might want to use it, and some of it isn't right for thrifting. Like, yes, all of these stained/ripped clothes could be cleaning rags, but I don't want to keep them all around for the rare occasions I might want them. I miss hearing your cleaning updates; I always found them inspiring. Do you still do any Flylady stuff?

[alphasarah.livejournal.com]

I have very much not been doing flylady stuff... the intention is to try to get the habits well and truly in place, in ALL OF US (yes, the kid too - she's old enough to pick up her own toys, dangit), this summer so that we can really rock it come fall.