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~ Sunday, May 27 ~
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a short list

Or, what I have accomplished this weekend so far:

  • 2 loads of laundry (1 is in the dryer, 1 needs to be folded & put away)
  • organized my CDs (I started 2 or 3 weeks ago…)
  • potted flowers I bought on Mother’s Day
  • went to yoga
  • stripped my bed
  • moved a tub of winter clothes from the hallway to the attic
  • got the box for the humidifier down from the attic
  • brought some more summer t-shirts down from the attic
  • got my dehumidifier working again

Yesterday I felt like crap so I did pretty much nothing except catch up on sleep, watch baseball, watch a movie (Girl, Interrupted, it was better than I had expected) and eat, and walk the dog around 1 block.

I haven’t exactly been tearing it up today. My back felt tight as a drum this morning, and I felt better after yoga this morning but no way was I going to mow the lawn at noon in this heat with my questionable back.  Maybe tomorrow. I hope tomorrow.

I have to put sheets on my bed and find some kind of lightweight blanket because the duvet is too heavy for this time of year and I have my summer weight quilt on the bed in the back bedroom and there is a bunch of crap on top of it. So not only is it inaccessible but it probably should be washed before I put it on my bed. And that is not happening tonight and possibly not tomorrow.

So…I am a bit disappointed in my lack of accomplishment thus far, especially since I have felt really pretty listless and am not expecting to feel a whole lot better tomorrow. We’ll see. Tomorrow is really supposed to be the day I get 4 boxes of donations together. It could happen.

So tonight:

  • put sheets & blanket on bed
  • clean up floor in BR
  • fold towels & put away
  • fold 2nd load of laundry and put away 

I can’t believe it’s after 8:30 already. 

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~ Friday, May 25 ~
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memorial day weekend plans

  • mow lawn
  • read (not gonna finish that ER bio but I’d like to make some decent progress)
  • watch baseball ~GO PHILLIES~
  • eat fudz
  • watch a couple movies
  • get 4 boxes together of crap fine stuff that I don’t need anymore to donate 
  • yoga on Sunday morning
  • maybe whack some tennis balls on Saturday
  • clean the bathroom
  • hopefully a bunch more stuff around the house I don’t feel like listing but I’m gonna try for 3 hours per day minimum *with breaks of course*
  • minimal internet beyond movie watching
  • try not to cry that I’m not in Puerto Rico again this year

I’m going to try to have 2 days of work and 1 day of leisure (besides cleaning up after myself, making my bed etc.)

very exciting stuff.

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~ Sunday, May 20 ~
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Done in the kitchen! (well, till I fix dinner)

I started on Saturday and did a lot more than I’d planned on, kind of like what happened last weekend with all my outdoor stuff. They are kind of crappy because not only can you not really see detail but I took my ‘before’ photos after I got started so you see that I already cleared out the corner by the sink, plus in the after photo there is stuff in the sink again, so sue me!

I really don’t feel like typing much and I tend to get too wordy so I’ll let the photos speak for themselves, but I half-assed the table, the end near the toaster oven has accumulated a bunch of crap I don’t feel like dealing with now.

I did a decent job on the floor and I am pretty satisfied with the state of the kitchen for now.  I do need to rearrange my pantry shelves and I also need to clean out my fridge. It’s not terrible but it’s bugging me.

TIME FOR DINNER

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Unfuck You Habitat: Drawer Challenge!

My plastic container drawer was irking me so I got on that.  I still haven’t gotten to my damn kitchen table but this needed to be done.

I had a drawer full of chaos and more that needed to go in there.  (I used to buy those generic 3 pound tubs of vegetable spread and I kept them to store dog food and stuff in.)

and I somehow ended up with a bunch of extra lids. Some I know what they belong to but their containers are missing. How do I have 4 blue lids and NOT ONE container to match? Where did they go? I think they go to the Sock Black Hole. Other lids are recyclables and I’m pretty sure I can just get rid of them. I’ll do a little searching to see if I have random containers scattered around to match and then they will get the heave-ho.

This took me 15 minutes and with the last 5 I washed the few dishes in the sink (and a couple lids).

**unfucked**

(I have some before and in-progress shots of my living room and kitchen, I’ll save those for later. Right now I have to go clean off the damn kitchen table and the counter where those lids are and then I am DONE with the kitchen.)

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heh. I haven’t even posted today till now but the computer is going off for a while. I got up early, had coffee, had some yogurt & granola cereal, folded and put away all my damn sheets (I hate folding sheets like crazy. I need someone Shaq-sized to do it for me) then went to yoga. Stopped at the hardware store and picked up a spray bottle (so I can defunk my yoga mat with a tea-tree oil solution), potting soil, and a cheap mat for the kitchen. I think it’s a bath mat but whatever. It goes in front of the vent and the dog likes to sit there, whether or not the heat is on.

Came home, made a proper breakfast, green tea, ate and drank and read on the deck, then walked the dog.  Then put the junk mail from the floor into the recycling box. I did wash my dishes from today, or almost all of them. Other than that, I’ve watched the Phillies lose to the Red Sox, ate some chocolate, pistachios, and drank a beer.

I gotta get my ass up and do some 20/10s and unfuck some of the joint.

Computer——-OFFFFFF

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~ Saturday, May 19 ~
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holy crap it’s after 6?!

Latest update on my progress:

Kitchen

  • finished dishes
  • put back drying rack
  • changed lightbulb over sink (and cleaned out grime and fried bugs inside the cover
  • shook out floor mat outside and wiped it down
  • vacuumed (w/attachment) floor
  • dry-swiffered floor
  • wet-swiffered floor
  • scrubbed with water & baking soda some of the grimier areas of the floor
  • dried floor with paper towels

Lest you think that now the floor is SUPER CLEAN, it’s not. It’s just that dirty and gross. The floor is ancient and even if it was SUPER CLEAN you wouldn’t be able to tell from looking at it, what with the stains, paint drips, and worn areas.

I still have to clean off the table and wipe that down, and more importantly, cook dinner.

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~ Friday, May 18 ~
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weekend list

I’m going to try to be as productive inside this weekend as I was outside last weekend.

But I have some errands to run and other stuff.

It would be nice to get out and whack some tennis balls tomorrow morning. I’ll try but I am not gonna hold my breath that that happens because I have to

  • *mow the lawn (best done in the morning)
  • get some potting soil (best to get errands done early)
  • *Sunday morning is yoga

Inside I am going to do some serious 20/10s going from room to room for some general unfucking.

  • *Living room: finish CDs, clean off and get rid of tv tray table, clean up trunk between chair & sofa, COFFFEEEEE TABLE, get rid of boxes
  • clean off landing, put away dog gate
  • *Hallway: put tub of winter clothes in attic, wash out humidifier
  • *bedroom: put away clothes, general straightening, vacuuming would be nice
  • *Kitchen: wash all dishes & put away, keep up on them rest of weekend. Clean off table, counters, clean floor.
  • Bathroom: floor, rugs, toilet
  • Laundry 2-3 loads (one in progress)

*priority

Next weekend of course is Memorial Day weekend, so I have an extra day to work or relax. I’m hoping to get enough done this weekend that next weekend I can have one lazy day. We shall see!

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~ Monday, May 14 ~
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Okay, other than Saturday when I was very productive getting a lot of outdoor stuff done, I haven’t really done a lot of major unfucking in months and I am barely even maintaining some semblance of clean.

BUT—I did 2 projects a few months back that I think I have maintained pretty well. Like I unfucked it and it has stayed that way more or less.

Let’s see.  Here is a post from January 20th when I unfucked my living room corner and even pulled up the carpet back there. There are before and after photos on there.  The first picture here is the end result.

The second picture I took this morning.

not too bad, huh? Didn’t gather too much crap and it’s still fairly neat.

Here is a post from January 7th when I unfucked my bathroom closet. 

The 3rd photo is of the shelving on the door after I was done in January.

The 4th one I took this morning (May 14)

The 5th is of the closet in January, and #6 is from this morning.

Not too terribly different.  It makes me feel a little better knowing I’ve been able to keep something unfucked for this long even though the rest of my house is a disaster.  I know that once I actually get rid of stuff and get organized I can keep it organized and the unfucking is much easier to do (I haven’t been this bad all my life because I didn’t always have all this crap).  My problem is that I can’t seem to make a lot of headway getting rid of stuff because a) there is so much and b) I have so much going on.

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~ Saturday, May 12 ~
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Holy crap peoples. I’m tired, and sweaty and probably stinky and I earned this Yuengling like a motherfucker. After I got back from the bank and hardware store I mowed my lawn (it’s a small yard but I have one of those manual reel mowers and my grass was long). Because it was not as early as I usually do it, it was almost full sun back there. It was in the high 70s today. After that I brought out my outdoor table and then potted some flowers. Then I washed down the table, brought out the 2 chairs and washed them down.  Then I decided it was time to put the cushions on the front porch furniture for the neighbors’ kitties to enjoy.  So I pulled out the 4 cushions, brushed the dirt and cat hair off of them with a dry scrub brush, then I got a bucket of water & borax and scrubbed the mofos down. Of course as soon as I started the dog walked across the wet one and lay down on on of the dry ones but I hollered at him and he growled and moved. They were filthy, about 8 years of accumulated dirt and cat hair. After I scrubbed them I dumped some clean water on them to rinse and set them out to dry (see photo). I also put out my 2 lawn flamingos. If you look closely to the photo you will see one by the garage. Then I went out front to my car and put the new windshield wipers on.  Putting clean(ish) cushions on filthy dirty furniture is kind of dumb so I got my buckets out again and put some simple green in there with some water and scrubbed down a loveseat, 2 chairs, and a table. And the mailbox. AND MY FRONT DOOR. And rinsed it all.  And I swept the porch off too. I kept thinking, my god, you would think the President was stopping by. I wish. My front porch will probably never be this clean again. Then I walked (scuzzy and all) down to the end of the next street over to the pizza place and got me a 6-pack of Yuengling and a Powerade. I wrote a short list of stuff I was going to do and I did none of it I don’t think. Last week I also pulled some weeds and trimmed my tree and cut down some errant trees that are growing in inconvenient places. So the front of my house is looking decent. So is the back! I’m pooped. I’d take a hot bath but a shower is going to have to suffice because I’d have to clean the tub first and that is not happenning today. I do think I will change my sheets this evening, and I will try to vacuum the downstairs. Yoga will be much needed tomorrow morning so I better get my ass out of bed early enough to get there because I have Mother’s Day stuff after that to do with my mom & sister.

Holy crap peoples.

I’m tired, and sweaty and probably stinky and I earned this Yuengling like a motherfucker.

After I got back from the bank and hardware store I mowed my lawn (it’s a small yard but I have one of those manual reel mowers and my grass was long). Because it was not as early as I usually do it, it was almost full sun back there. It was in the high 70s today.

After that I brought out my outdoor table and then potted some flowers. Then I washed down the table, brought out the 2 chairs and washed them down. 

Then I decided it was time to put the cushions on the front porch furniture for the neighbors’ kitties to enjoy.  So I pulled out the 4 cushions, brushed the dirt and cat hair off of them with a dry scrub brush, then I got a bucket of water & borax and scrubbed the mofos down. Of course as soon as I started the dog walked across the wet one and lay down on on of the dry ones but I hollered at him and he growled and moved. They were filthy, about 8 years of accumulated dirt and cat hair. After I scrubbed them I dumped some clean water on them to rinse and set them out to dry (see photo).

I also put out my 2 lawn flamingos. If you look closely to the photo you will see one by the garage.

Then I went out front to my car and put the new windshield wipers on. 

Putting clean(ish) cushions on filthy dirty furniture is kind of dumb so I got my buckets out again and put some simple green in there with some water and scrubbed down a loveseat, 2 chairs, and a table. And the mailbox. AND MY FRONT DOOR. And rinsed it all.  And I swept the porch off too. I kept thinking, my god, you would think the President was stopping by. I wish. My front porch will probably never be this clean again.

Then I walked (scuzzy and all) down to the end of the next street over to the pizza place and got me a 6-pack of Yuengling and a Powerade.

I wrote a short list of stuff I was going to do and I did none of it I don’t think.

Last week I also pulled some weeds and trimmed my tree and cut down some errant trees that are growing in inconvenient places.

So the front of my house is looking decent.

So is the back!

I’m pooped. I’d take a hot bath but a shower is going to have to suffice because I’d have to clean the tub first and that is not happenning today.

I do think I will change my sheets this evening, and I will try to vacuum the downstairs.

Yoga will be much needed tomorrow morning so I better get my ass out of bed early enough to get there because I have Mother’s Day stuff after that to do with my mom & sister.

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Oy. I was moving along nicely and then made the mistake of calling my sister, stupidly thinking I could have short conversation with her. 45 minutes later at 11:15 I finally got into my car to go to the shopping center along with all the other lunatics. Good lord people are insane. I kept getting behind assholes who were driving 20-25 in a 35 zone, happy to miss the light and sit through another one.  Anyway, I went to the bank and then the hardware store where they were having a dollar days sidewalk sale (unbeknownst to me till I got there) so I picked up a plant and some storage containers and 4 packs of baseball cards. (I got a mini Ichiro!! and a Hunter Pence! And a Chooch!! First Phillies so far.)

I came home and watered my hanging basket then mowed the lawn. Now I am sweaty and tired and so I rested a little, caught up on Tumblr and had some cookies and a cold beverage.

The dog is crying so I guess I will walk him then when we get back I will plant flowers. Then figure out what to start on inside. I wish I had more energy. A little help would be nice too or at least a dog that didn’t get underfoot every time I tried to move and didn’t whine all the time.

I think I will

  • vacuum the dining room and living room
  • clean up the kitchen
  • I may venture to the fridge and clean that out. It’s not disgusting or anything but it would be nice to have it cleaned but it would be really nice to have it organized a little better. It would be even nicer if I had some beer to put in there too.
  • Quick clean the bathroom—sink, toilet, and floor

Tomorrow I am really going to try to get up early, have a little something to eat and go to yoga at 10. Then the plan is for my sister and me to take my mom out to some farmer’s market place. My oldest sister (my mom’s favorite) is celebrating her anniversary tomorrow so my mom was all MOTHER’S DAY IS CANCELLED OMFG. So we are (maybe) going to head out toward West Chester (home of QVC!) (and Bam Margera!) to one or 2 farmer’s markets, one of which has a restaurant where we are hoping we can get lunch.  I suppose we’d better call.  My sister has not spoken to my mom (or is as I type this) so who knows. But that kills most of my day and I also need to stop by the office to drop stuff off and I was going to spend some time there straightening up and trying to see if I could find some possibly missing tax stuff. That’s how disorganized I am, I don’t know whether it’s missing or not.  So I had better try to get as much done today as I can. I may have to stop by my mom’s later today and get her to sign the thing I need to drop off at the office and go to the office today rather than tomorrow. Of course sometime tomorrow I will also have to take the dog for a walk.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO It’s a gorgeous day today, my lawn is mowed, and I am going to walk the dog now, then do the plants. OH! And set up my little table and chairs on the deck so I can have breakfast out there tomorrow morning, maybe!

Next week I am going to try to have a Decluttering Weekend, wherein I do more than just cleaning and straightening up, I am going to try to sort & get rid of crap. I can’t stand this anymore.

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd I am turning off my computer for a few hours at least. 

As Slater said

Check ya later!

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~ Saturday, April 28 ~
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3:30 checklist

  • stripped bed
  • started laundry
  • stopped at Mom’s
  • stopped at Petsmart
  • pedicure
  • stopped at friend’s store
  • stopped at sister’s to drop off check and pick up Flyers tix
  • ordered pee pads from Amazon since Petsmart didn’t have the eco friendly ones and the ones they do have are twice the price!!
  • washer into dryer
  • walked the dog
  • mowed the lawn

I’m pooped and I also don’t feel so stellar due to shark week day 1.

Most of tomorrow will be taken up by the Flyers game. The rest of today I will finish up the laundry (oh the dryer just stopped!), put clean sheets on the bed, make dinner (burger and a salad), clean up the kitchen a bit, and watch the Phillies game and relax. I’ll try to vacuum before I leave for the game tomorrow. Maybe I can squeeze something else in too, and I will have some time in the evening (though I may not have the energy) to do something after the game.

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~ Saturday, April 21 ~
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Okay so I could have gotten more stuff done instead of surfing the internet and watching Survivor instead of reading arrrrrgh

BUT

last night I did a load of laundry

today I put it away.

Today I mowed the lawn

went to family lunch after my nephew’s confirmation

walked el poocho

30 minutes straightening up my bedroom

20 minutes doing dishes (including the icko countertop grill)

picked up junk mail and recyclables off living room floor and put in a box (the room looks 30% better already)

hung up some jackets

After the Phillies game I will READ

Tomorrow the Flyers play at noon

but beyond that I am gonna try to get some shit done

OH CRAP I need to go to the office for a couple hours

Maybe I can get up early and do that before the game

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~ Friday, April 20 ~
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list time

  • laundry—1 load in progress
  • straighten up clothes in BR
  • straighten up lazy boy area
  • Saturday—family lunch
  • Sunday—office
  • clean up kitchen table
  • clean up humidifier(s) put away
  • MOW LAWN omg
  • read
  • read
  • read
  • turn off computer
  • this list is in no particular order
  • make harvest local order (maybe)
  • keep breathing

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~ Friday, April 13 ~
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Ugh I am really not feeling so well. I thought it was allergies but I may actually be getting sick.

BUT, I did 15 minutes unfucking my BR and started a load of laundry. Now I’m taking a small break and will do another round of unfucking in another room or 2. I may tackle organizizing my CDs since I don’t seem to have a lot of wherewithal today and I only have about 2 hours before I am going to go to the office and then the vet.

Ugh the thought of going to the office is not appealing since I feel crappy. Maybe I can take something and clear my head. Plus I am achey from fight club and maybe from being sick and the dog’s whining is not helping matters and I will probably have to take that little mofo for a walk. It’s never done and it’s never without many interruptions. 

some days I just want to burn it all down.

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~ Thursday, April 12 ~
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Did 20 minutes unfucking in the kitchen & DR

Now it’s time to go to fight club, I’d rather stay home & watch the Phils.

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