Ahhhhh. There’s nothing like the fresh smell of clean. This is what I’m doing for the next couple weeks - cleaning, rearranging, donating - off with the old, on with the new.
Here’s what I got for Christmas, new living room carpet and furniture after waiting fifteen years, until we had no more litters of kittens. I finally pulled out the raggedy carpet and donated furniture that had been grated like cheese by those sharp little claws. Man that stuff had seen better days.
Life is sweet, baby. Now I’m in the process of arranging. Arranging a room is like playing Janga - move one block and everything falls. So all our rooms are getting a quick makeover for 2012.
I don’t know about you, but I can’t work if my surrounding environment is messy and cluttered. Perhaps because my mind is so very disordered I need my house in order. Not perfect, I hate perfection, just neat and tidy. It’s sweet to display my favorite books. I don’t own much in the way of tzatzkis, but I do have plenty of books and photos of my kids.
I’m looking forward to tomorrow - getting packing boxes, dropping books at the library, reorganizing one of the bedrooms and tackling the workout room.
Oh, I found that stuff, the Devil’s Dung. Wonder what I should do with it???
I have a compulsion about making my bed every morning. I can’t start my day until at least that one, small thing is done and orderly and clean. Then I feel okay about starting the rest of my day.
My project for today is cleaning my office and writing my 2012 To Do List. Hopefully it won’t be 15 pages long. Ugh!
(#1 on the list…..have a kick-ass trip to California, hanging out w/ Julia!)
I like tidy too. I can’t do perfection tidy, because I’m just not a Suzy Homemaker, but there’s no way I can write either if I’m staring at a messy space while brainstorming. Like you, Julia, my mind is chaos. Way too many thoughts and ideas going on, I need some semblance of order too. Right now though, I have to contend with toys laying all over the floor, within minutes of me picking them up!
Delilah - you are entitled to chaos! You have little ones. I just have to pick up after my dog. He scatters his toys all over the house like a toddler!
Tidy ain’t ever happening (don’t worry the guest room is clean AND tidy). This past summer I rewove the fabric in the arm of my sofa where my kittens had decided was a perfect scratching post. It took weeks. Eventually I’ll either learn how to make slipcovers or have one made.
I am an absolutely horrible housekeeper though!
Oh yeah, Penny, it’s gonna be a kick-ass visit! I don’t make my bed. The one thing I don’t do!
Oh Steph - three litters of kittens did the job here. My furniture was literally shredded and for some reason they preferred the expensive furniture!
You don’t make your bed! NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! I’ll make it for you when I’m visiting….!!!
Ahhhh, new carpeting…..bliss. I’ve still got the ragged cat stuff, didn’t help getting the house sold, I can tell you.:)
Yup Sandra, cats…so cute and so wonderfully adorably destructive!
Suit yourself, Penny!
I spent the past week emptying and rearranging my office/closet/storage room. The electrical outlet on the wall where my computer was…died. I’m almost rearranged. Almost. And then I’ll get back to writing.