Friends and House Cleaning

A couple days ago, Savya came over to my house and helped me clean. That was so amazingly sweet of her. We accomplished more in 4 hours than I had in all my days off. There is still so much more to do, but at least I've got one room that I can relax in and not feel bad about. It just about brought me to tears to see my living room all cleaned and organized. I wish I could have her all to myself for a few days. It's not that she did all the work, it was just so much easier to be motivated with someone there. And having an objective eye towards all my packrat collections. It's so much harder to justify why I need to keep this 'thing' to someone else. And if the answer to "Why?" was not quick enough, then I obviously don't really need it. So much easier to do with someone who doesn't live there.

There really is so much more to do. And it's all starting to rely on something else being done. I need to clean up the dining room, but that means a need to find a place to put my winemaking supplies. 5 gallon glass jugs don't just fit anywhere. To really get the bedroom cleaned, I need to rent a truck and get up to Riodoso to get some furniture out of storage. To get all the books in the house put away, I need a really big bookshelf. To get the curtains put up, I need a vehicle that can fit 9 foot poles in it to go up to Los Lunas. Etc., etc., etc. Cascade inertia. We have no tools to make bookshelves, and no place to store the tools if we had them. Never enough money or space.

Revved up

I really think that taking this year off from the Holidays has been really helpful. We're really looking forward to next year instead of dreading it. But we need to start early to find all the parts for the planned Halloween Nativity scene for the front lawn. Oh sure, it's easy to find 3 foot Frankenstiens at Wal-Mart, but they can't be smiling!! Unless it's an evil smile. No friendly monsters around my house.

This is my story and I'm sticking to it

The holiday season got lost on the way to our house. Oh, the calendar may say that Dec 25 was yesterday, but the holidays have yet to arrive. Maybe they'll find their way here sometime in January. We'll just have to wait and see.

I totally suck

So after 5 days off and 8 'areas' (can't really call the hall closet a room) to clean, what have I done? The kitchen. That's it. 3 days till Xmas and I still don't know where my lights are, no presents have been bought or made, and the house is a disaster. Great Og, I have accomplished NOTHING!!

There is part of me that knows that it's OK not to decorate for Xmas. No one is going to stop being my friend because they didn't get something wrapped in paper on a specific day. My house could be worse, I could be giving in to that hoarding instinct and not trying at all. But that doesn't help!! I still need to get dinner in the crock-pot, take a picture of the mountain (oooh, snowy) , call the about the cell phone bill, call the bank, and get ready to go to work all night. That's a pitifully short list, but it's going to take me all day. 5 days off and I accomplished next to nothing!

I'm gonna go make some coffee.

Stuff

I've got too much stuff!! I've got stuff that hides the stuff I really need. I have to go out and buy new stuff to replace the old stuff that I can't find.

I've taken a few days off work so that I can do Spring Cleaning. Yes, it's December, but I figure that for me, breakfast is at 2pm, bedtime is 5am, so Spring can be in Winter. So there!

I've always heard about the cleaning binges that amphetamine users go through. I don't want speed for recreational use, I just want a clean house. :) Do you think that the devil would be interested in my soul in exchange for a clean, uncluttered house? Hmmm, I don't want any zombie turkeys, I don't wanna turn into a turkey myself, and I don't want any more weird surprises, you got it! I'd probably end up with a house with nothing in it. Stupid monkey paw.

Man, when I get this house clean and I can get to all my stuff, there will be nothing stopping me from my evil plan to take over the world. Oops, did I say that out loud? Uh...I mean, I'll be able to do all those kind, charitable things I've always wanted. Yeah, that's it. Nothing evil here.