HAVE A PARTY!!!! Seriously, have a party. I've always said this. The best way to get me to clean my house and make decisions about decorating issues I've been putting off is to put a party on the calendar and invite people over. It's amazing how that impending doorbell will act like a wind-up knob in your back and get you going. I've written … [Read more...]
Daily Checklist and Excuses
I generally write two posts a day. My daily checklist and a general post about this process. I decided last week that I should write my daily checklist post first, and then the other (hopefully more interesting) post second so that if someone checked the blog, they would see the interesting post first. Not that my daily checklists aren't … [Read more...]
Crazy Cleaning Day
Well, not as crazy as it could be. Today I'm trying to notice all the details. Translated, I'm hoping I don't miss something gross or embarrassing in my house since my husband's office co-workers are coming over tonight. I'm pretty much done except for vacuuming and mopping and setting up the food and drinks tables. Thankfully, I'm not … [Read more...]
My Obsession with Gadgets
Three guesses. I'll give you a hint. It isn't a platypus puppet. But I do think it would work better as that. I bought this thing at a garage sale, new in the package, about three years ago. Maybe longer. I took it out of the package this morning. And now I'll either throw it away or let my kids use it for a . . . platypus puppet. It's a … [Read more...]
My New Non-Negotiable for the Week
I didn't add a new non-negotiable last week. Since I didn't get back until Monday evening, it really never occurred to me, and things were so off schedule last week that it was a bit pointless anyway. I've managed to not let the house become a total sty this week. Just a half-way sty. I've tried to be "aware" of the clutter and the need to clean … [Read more...]
Slowly, oh so slowly
I've worked more in the master today. I'm trying to plow through even though it seems like it will never end. I try to make it my philosophy to focus on thing by thing instead of the big picture when the big picture starts to overwhelm me. I have no idea if this is the right thing to do, since I am the antithesis of an organizational/cleaning … [Read more...]
Progress . . . and reality
If you read this blog because you're a little messy and "hate clutter" you probably won't understand. But if you're a true slob, you will. Do you know that point when you start to work on a REALLY bad room and you get about half way done and then it just overwhelms you that you will never find a place for all of this junk? That's where I … [Read more...]
Help . . . I need an excuse!
I would like to find an excuse. But I'm afraid there isn't one.Tonight and tomorrow are off-the-schedule kind of days, and it's weighing heavily on me that I should work on the master bedroom. Our bedroom.Our scary bedroom.Really, our bedroom is more like a storage room right now than a bedroom. A totally chaotic and scary storage room. It's the … [Read more...]
Sage Advice for Young Love
To all of those in that new, starry-eyed, heartrate-increasing, better-than-food stage of new love, you may have been asked the following question by someone who is both wise and well-meaning. Can you see yourself with this person ten years from now? What a wonderful question! And yet it is a little too vague and lacks specifics. Allow me … [Read more...]
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