Cleaning

Got a full trash bag of "stuff" out of my bedroom - and yes, I can now see the floor and the top of the bedside table!  I know - I'm usually pretty good about throwing stuff away but I get lazy - VERY lazy - and stuff piles up.

I should have started on the dining room or living room but I didn't - there's always Friday which will be my next day off - 'course that means I actually will have to do it - SIGH. We also cleaned up out back - all the gunk that had gathered on top of the pool - next step: call the people who can fill it in!!

All it takes is time & money! 

Weekends

Productive weekend - but could have done a lot more! Got the living room straighter (notice not completely straightened!).  Have to put a bunch of stuff in the garbage and, ultimately find a place for the coffee table that came from another house.  Anyway - the sofa & chairs are back where they belong - floors have been vacuumed and everything dusted.  Slowly - VERY slowly - getting back to normal. 

Did have priorities tho - naps both Saturday and Sunday!!  It was nice to have two days in a row - "as we get older" it takes time to recoup!!

We've also planned a vacation - a REAL vacation!! Exciting!!  Just have to put in leave!! 

All By Myself (with two cats!)

This will be a different week for me - I'm in the last day of dogsitting (my oldest will be home tomorrow), Don is off to San Diego on business and I have the week off - whew! 

The dog is good and, luckily, she & my son live close by because she wasn't really happy here - anxious and pacing the few hours she was here. So I've been going over to her house several hours at a time, several times a day and last thing at night.  She's fine over there - relaxed and happy to be home! I know she'll be happy when her "Daddy" comes home tomorrow.

This week will be a busy one - even without going to work.  The car needs its inspection and an oil change, I have plenty of "stuff" to clean around the house (yuck) and I do have to go into work once this week to make sure timesheets are finished on time!  But it will be good not to have to get up and out early!  I'm sure the week will fly and all will be back to "normal" faster than I can imagine!

Wish me luck on the cleaning  -  I'll need all of it I can get!!

Weekends Are Too Short

Busy weekend - got to talk and spend time with both of my sons (always a good thing!) and then I decided to rearrange the furniture in the family room.  I've been talking about doing it for a while but that's all I was doing - talking.  Not a lot of actual cleaning, but some!  Dusting done for sure!!

Finally decided it was now or never and off I started - pushing, pulling, moving cords, tables, chairs and the sofa.  It looks good - a bit more open and, if/when we decide on an LCD television, this arrangement will work better than the old.  Still can see the fireplace (always a plus in the winter, especially for the cats) and now have room for both laptops!  So connected are we.

Now if it were just Saturday again tomorrow . . .

Movies and Marathons

Two fun movies over the Fourth weekend - both were kids movies - one animated and one "real" and both fun.  Wall-e was funny and cute, Kit Kittridge An American Girl was sweet - and just what I needed this weekend!!

There were several marathons on TV - a JAG/NCIS marathon on Saturday (I'd forgotten that NCIS was a spin-off from JAG!!) and, of course, Law & Order (several of them!!)  Of course I watched the NCIS ones and the L&O Criminal Intent - SIGH!!  L&OCI is new on USA this summer so I got to watch new shows too!!

Lots of cleaning going on this weekend - mostly on Don's part - but I worked too - and we took another load to the dump and one to DAV.  We can see carpet in all non-used bedrooms (miracles do happen) and we're ready (I think) for all of Don's stuff that's coming back this week (he starts his new job in Hampton Roads next week!!).  Still lots to do to get stuff organized and put somewhere but there's light at the end of this particular tunnel and I don't think (at least right now) that it's a train!!

Whew - what a week

Yippee - an early weekend and a longer one too - I took Saturday and Monday off - just because! I'm going to see Lion King at the Kennedy Center on Saturday - and REALLY looking forward to that!

Sunday will be more cleaning in the "spare" rooms that have become general dumping grounds for all things not in favor! Hopefully I'll be able to get all junk & real garbage out of my assigned room and move on to actual cleaning! There's still another room for me to do - but that's going to mean heavy lifting so I'm going to have to have massive help!

Monday will be a day of rest and relaxation (along with dusting and working from home - I know but there are things that HAVE to get done before Tuesday!!).

PS There are 131 days until the election - if it were over tomorrow I'd be very very happy!