Despite my best laid plans and a very detailed calendar, I was unable to get to my afternoon project today - organize and deep clean Tay's room. First off, I woke up late after getting almost no sleep last night. Therefore, my personal time was cut in half which only allowed time for breakfast. However, I did check emails and did some other computer things which crept into my 8 AM - 9 AM timeslot.
By 8:30, I was wiping down the kitchen and putting away dishes. I swept the floor and wiped down the downstairs bathroom and the washer and dryer. I had to break away from my cleaning to get some chicken and veggies in the crockpot for T. I will be meeting my buddy tonight for dinner and wanted to be sure he had something to eat. Talk about spoiled, huh??
After getting the crockpot going, I watered the front plants and packed up my cleaning caddy for the bathrooms upstairs. By the time I got started on the bathrooms, I was about an hour behind schedule. Bathrooms SUCK! There is just no way around it. And it is getting harder and harder to lean over the tub with this huge gut hanging out the front of me. Not to mention sticking my rubber gloved hand in the toilets to scrub the nasty out with a pumice stone. Bleh! After all that (including wiping down all four sinks - there are two in each bath upstairs, mirrors, vanities, toilet rims), I had to sweep and "mop" the floors. The thing about bathroom floors, in my experience, is that a mop just doesn't cut it! There are too many nooks and crannies to get into that a mop wouldn't be able to effectively. So I crawled on my hands and knees around the bathroom floor with a Mr Clean soaked rag. Good times when you have a heavy bundle in the gut area!!
After cleaning both bathrooms upstairs, it was close to 12:30 so I had to take the garbage to the can, clean up my hands and get busy with lunch. I had a turkey BLT and made T a regular BLT. I put a little salsa in a bowl and had some chips and salsa with lunch...but not before I spilled the salsa multiple times on the kitchen table. Bad words were said.
After all that, I decided that Tay's room would have to wait. I am almost thinking that her room will be a full day project, not an afternoon. My plan is to do it tomorrow after my grocery trip. If I can get to the grocery by 9 or 10, I will have a good portion of the day remaining to tackle that disaster! So I have shifted my calendar a bit. But it will get done this week.
In place of my original afternoon project, I took pics and placed some of our household items on craigslist. At least I did something productive with my afternoon!
T and I have discussed the biggest pain in my rear at the moment - the Halloween party. We have narrowed it down to two options - not doing one at all or doing just a kid halloween/carnival party. We will probably decide on the latter especially since our daggone costumes arrived today! And, geez, I don't think they are all too appropriate for a kids party (there isn't anything sexual about them, just questionable for some people I would think) but it is what it is. So I will make the decision in the next week as to whether or not we will go this kid party route or just skip it all together. I am going to talk to one of my kid-less friends tonight to see what she thinks as well. Decision to come.
I am off to get ready for my dinner out! I am so excited to see Amy. I need some real friend time!! She is one of those people you can say anything to and she doesn't get offended, bothered or hurt feelings. It is so awesome to be able to be that open with someone. And I have been needing a girlfriend like that to talk to lately!! Should be a nice (therapeutic) night!
Oh, wanted to give a quick shout out to Donda! Thank you for talking me off the ledge the other day. Your words of wisdom, reality and advice really helped me a lot!! I am so glad we have become close! I wish I still lived in Louisville so we could sit on the front porch and chat more!
Have a great evening all!
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