I didn't think Spaghetti would take me seriously. I told him yesterday at 4:30 if he took the kids and ran away, I would clean all night... they were gone to his mom's house by 5:00...
So I cleaned. Alot. Now I am not at the moment into decluttering, since we are having a house full of guests on Sunday, I will be gone today, and Saturday at family events. So that leaves me tomorrow to clean.
I mean surface clean, like just make it look pretty, and yes this means the kids rooms too, since some people haven't seen them. So the loft is a freakin' zoo. I mean it was insane!
So I spent most of my energy there last night. And with 4.5 hours to work, I did good. I didn't file papers, I found a big basket and just dumped it there for another hot date of shredding and filing.
I also cleaned the front t.v. room, took out the big coffee table, most of Bagels toys, put in a HUGE new area rug (well new as in, it's from my parents old house, new to this house) I am excited about my rug! Spike can crawl, or whatever on the floor now (hardwood otherwise) and I put up the tree yesterday, lights too. No ornaments yet.
We had a cute family moment, it was right before Spaghetti left with the kids, it was dark out (yep 4:45 and pitch black out) Spaghetti was holding Bagel, and I had Spike. And I noticed how pretty the tree was all lite up at night time. So the 4 of us stood around admiring the tree. Awww. A family moment...
ok back to the cleaning story. So it's still bizarre around here. I need Spaghetti to help me move the monster coffee table (it's going under the pool table for now) and to move out the beloved office chair my big butt is planted in right here every day. But it's too big, and heavy and is jacking up my floors (yes even with the heavy plastic floor mat) so my dad, Carrots, gave me his old chair for his desk.
Oh and that is a funny story, I traded my mom two tables for an office chair and an area rug. Either way it's lookin' good around here. I am trying not to just shove shit everywhere, I am trying to clean up.
Hope I can get it all done!
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
7 days...
Sigh... Baptism is in 7 days. Which means family. friends. All checking out my house. I need the whole house, yes whole house, in clutter free, clean, smelling nice, and all cute and cozy. Sigh... no pressure...
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Fucking Laundry.
Fuck the laundry.
Fuck the white tshirts I can not find.
Fuck the dress shirts, dress pants, clean underware, hoodies, socks, sleepers, and bras that I can not find clean.
It's all fucking dirty. I care. I want it all organized.
But what I really fucking want is a nudist colony for a family, or disposable clothes. Fuck the environment on this one. Well, no... ummm... how about biodegradable clothes.
Whatever.
I fucking hate laundry. I suck ass at laundry. I do not enjoy it.
I don't even enjoy when it's all put away. I just know that it will be all back in the dirty clothes pile again. or on the floor, up to my fucking knees in clean-what-the-fuck pile of laundry.
FUCK it. GD laundry... BAH!! Grrrrrrrrrr.....
Monday, November 10, 2008
Rules to post. Bagel's room.
Bagel's room.
Sleeping rules.
Close the bedroom door.
White Noise on.
Armour tied shut.
Hanger on closet door.
Lock door when leaving.
Books away.
Awake.
Night light off.
White noise off.
Blinds open for free sunlight and heat.
Door shut.
Sleeping rules.
Close the bedroom door.
White Noise on.
Armour tied shut.
Hanger on closet door.
Lock door when leaving.
Books away.
Awake.
Night light off.
White noise off.
Blinds open for free sunlight and heat.
Door shut.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Update
I swear I have a good reason for not posting here... I have been cleaning. Yes if you read my other blog, you will think I just read Twilight. But I have been decluttering and organinzing like a nesting freak!
It's looking good in some rooms, great in others, and yes there are some you still can't see the floor. I will post again soon.
Crying babies!
It's looking good in some rooms, great in others, and yes there are some you still can't see the floor. I will post again soon.
Crying babies!
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Advice from the Queen
What is a surefire way to raise your spirits every time you enter your home?
Spruce up the outside front of your home or apartment - the part that everyone sees - including you! This is also a great way to jumpstart your decluttering projects. The quick results will encourage you to keep going with the areas which are more challenging.
Now you may already have a beautiful exterior on your home, and maybe the clutter is all inside. But let's examine this. One of the easiest ways to figure out how your own home should look on the outside i s to drive around your neighborhood and figure out what everyone else is doing wrong!
After a while, your eye starts to get better and better at seeing what looks good and what looks like crapperooni, and why! It's true - some homes look so wonderful, and others decidedly not - and it's not always easy at first glance to see what makes that critical difference. But I can tell you ONE thing - houses with a bunch of STUFF outside (instead of nice trees and plants) have a clutter problem. Sometimes it's STUFF that the people obviously love and think looks great. But it doesn't, does it?
So take a little drive or walk around, and criticize your neighbors (just kidding - keep it to yourself!) and you might come back with some GREAT ideas on how to improve the exterior of your home! It's okay if you steal a few great ideas from the neighbors who have beautiful homes!! But of course, you have to be sure that what looks good on their home will look good on yours! But the MOST important thing is to reduce the STUFF outside your home - less is almost always more in this case.
Spruce up the outside front of your home or apartment - the part that everyone sees - including you! This is also a great way to jumpstart your decluttering projects. The quick results will encourage you to keep going with the areas which are more challenging.
Now you may already have a beautiful exterior on your home, and maybe the clutter is all inside. But let's examine this. One of the easiest ways to figure out how your own home should look on the outside i s to drive around your neighborhood and figure out what everyone else is doing wrong!
After a while, your eye starts to get better and better at seeing what looks good and what looks like crapperooni, and why! It's true - some homes look so wonderful, and others decidedly not - and it's not always easy at first glance to see what makes that critical difference. But I can tell you ONE thing - houses with a bunch of STUFF outside (instead of nice trees and plants) have a clutter problem. Sometimes it's STUFF that the people obviously love and think looks great. But it doesn't, does it?
So take a little drive or walk around, and criticize your neighbors (just kidding - keep it to yourself!) and you might come back with some GREAT ideas on how to improve the exterior of your home! It's okay if you steal a few great ideas from the neighbors who have beautiful homes!! But of course, you have to be sure that what looks good on their home will look good on yours! But the MOST important thing is to reduce the STUFF outside your home - less is almost always more in this case.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
You have to make the time
Oh Fly Lady, I love you.
I told you all how I receive about 10 emails a day from Fly Lady, and after 2 or 3 days, yes I know your smart! That is like 20 to 30 emails just from her! Some are reminders...
Go to Bed at 10. (I get this one at 8)
Get up and do your morning routine.
Plan what's for dinner. (morning email)
Then there is the testimony emails, most I read, or skim, some I just delete. (I don't read the ones for older kids, yes you can teach your kids to fly right along with you!) It's great reading from others that this is really working. That if I am down I can get back up. And that I am not the only nut that is excited about my shiny sink.
Then there are the emails from Fly Lady just about everything. Like the one about Time in a bottle. It was great, and a quote that I have heard before
"When you say you don't have the time to do something. That is not true. We all have the same 24 hours in a day. It's just what you choose to do with them"
Everything from sleeping to eating and working is your basics. But when I do all my art work, read a book, or take the time to blog, this is what I choose to do with my spare time. Some people watch t.v. or go out with friends. It's just what you do.
So back to Fly Lady and the time in a bottle. She had mentioned how cool it would be if you could go into your neat and tidy bathroom, into the medicine cabinet, and find a bottle of time. And you could take as much as needed for that day.
Well you can in a weird kinda way. There is things to do, prep work. That makes saving time possible. Fly Lady says your night routine is the most important, and I agree. If I do stuff for the next day, it goes so much better for me. For me it's making the coffee and having all the sippys and bottles lined up for the next day, have the dishwasher loaded and ran before bed. If all the dishes are out of my sink I can function better it seems in the morning.
Also having my clothes laid out, and the kids for the next day. There is little steps like having my purse, and or the diaper bag all packed and ready to go. And yes at night I am not in the mood for all this. But if I do it early enough, between feedings and getting Spaghetti off to work, I can get ready.
Some of the other emails were about, letting yourself be less then perfect, and seeing things through your childs eyes, time in a bottle, and finding peace during the Holiday Season. These are just a few paragraphs, either from other Flybabies, or FlyLady herself.
I want to be prepared, and I want to have a place for everything. It will take time. Fly Lady said it took her 9 months to do her house. I have been trying, and yes I fall of my wagon all the time. I don't do the control journal like I should, I don't shine my sink every night. But I sure do like it when I do. I feel better.
Oh and yes I do put my shoes on everyday, it does something to me, motivates me more to do housework.
Hope this helps some of you. I have lots of tweaking to do with my routines and cleaning, but I am trying! If you want to be a flybaby, go to the site, join the Yahoo group, and then you can get these emails. There are alot of them. but nothing the delete button can't handle!
I told you all how I receive about 10 emails a day from Fly Lady, and after 2 or 3 days, yes I know your smart! That is like 20 to 30 emails just from her! Some are reminders...
Go to Bed at 10. (I get this one at 8)
Get up and do your morning routine.
Plan what's for dinner. (morning email)
Then there is the testimony emails, most I read, or skim, some I just delete. (I don't read the ones for older kids, yes you can teach your kids to fly right along with you!) It's great reading from others that this is really working. That if I am down I can get back up. And that I am not the only nut that is excited about my shiny sink.
Then there are the emails from Fly Lady just about everything. Like the one about Time in a bottle. It was great, and a quote that I have heard before
"When you say you don't have the time to do something. That is not true. We all have the same 24 hours in a day. It's just what you choose to do with them"
Everything from sleeping to eating and working is your basics. But when I do all my art work, read a book, or take the time to blog, this is what I choose to do with my spare time. Some people watch t.v. or go out with friends. It's just what you do.
So back to Fly Lady and the time in a bottle. She had mentioned how cool it would be if you could go into your neat and tidy bathroom, into the medicine cabinet, and find a bottle of time. And you could take as much as needed for that day.
Well you can in a weird kinda way. There is things to do, prep work. That makes saving time possible. Fly Lady says your night routine is the most important, and I agree. If I do stuff for the next day, it goes so much better for me. For me it's making the coffee and having all the sippys and bottles lined up for the next day, have the dishwasher loaded and ran before bed. If all the dishes are out of my sink I can function better it seems in the morning.
Also having my clothes laid out, and the kids for the next day. There is little steps like having my purse, and or the diaper bag all packed and ready to go. And yes at night I am not in the mood for all this. But if I do it early enough, between feedings and getting Spaghetti off to work, I can get ready.
Some of the other emails were about, letting yourself be less then perfect, and seeing things through your childs eyes, time in a bottle, and finding peace during the Holiday Season. These are just a few paragraphs, either from other Flybabies, or FlyLady herself.
I want to be prepared, and I want to have a place for everything. It will take time. Fly Lady said it took her 9 months to do her house. I have been trying, and yes I fall of my wagon all the time. I don't do the control journal like I should, I don't shine my sink every night. But I sure do like it when I do. I feel better.
Oh and yes I do put my shoes on everyday, it does something to me, motivates me more to do housework.
Hope this helps some of you. I have lots of tweaking to do with my routines and cleaning, but I am trying! If you want to be a flybaby, go to the site, join the Yahoo group, and then you can get these emails. There are alot of them. but nothing the delete button can't handle!
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