so, what's next?
Christmas and New Years have now come and gone for 2006 and my house never quite got to the point of company-ready.  Awesome improvements in some areas and greater failure in other areas.  So, just what is next?  Valentine's Day and Easter!  OK, so, off and running....

working on the kitchen... this may take a while...

dishes, dishes and more dishes - wash the dirty ones, wash the clean but dusty ones, find those cupboards and clean them, too.  My   biggest um, problem, will be figuring out what to keep and what to sacrifice due to lack of space.  It's not easy.  lol

 Monday night, I cleaned my laundry room to a point that it's never really seen before, and if that wasn't wonderful enough, Joe also cleaned out the cupboards and organized all the tools and junk that was in there!  Yay!  :-D

still working towards my goal...
just not quite how I'd planned, but as long as the work gets done, that's the main thing.  Right now, life is so crazy that I just don't get something done, each day, but the days that I can, I'm counting the clutter I get rid of - basically so I can guage my progress.  Thursday was my best day, this past week - got rid of 125 items plus did four loads of dishes!  My house lost weight!  :-D  Yay!

November's here - 8 days ago, already?!

Wow, we've been so busy.  I just got another job and renewed my job at Domino's Pizza!  Sarah and I have been to the International Women's Show, in Toronto, as well as the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair!  But still cleaning!

Realized, yesterday, that there's seven weeks left until Christmas.  I've divided these seven weeks into seven rooms and divided each room into one task per day.  Some weeks leave me an extra day here and there for catch up or whatever and I haven't scheduled anything for any given Sunday - every body needs a day to recover!  :-D

This particular week is Laundry Room week for me and with a fully scheduled day for yesterday and today, I started simple - yesterday, my goal was to clean off my washing machine.  Now, it's wonderfully clean, shiney, sanitized and makes my laundry room look already so much brighter!  Today's goal; my dryer!  Yes, also rather simple, but will help create good momentum, too!  I'm going to need it because the worst is yet to come!  Shelves, table and floor!  eeek!  The table will be the worst, because it's really hard to reach - it's between the dryer and the wall and just plain awkward.  Also, because our dryer doesn't vent outside, properly, it's really bad for collecting killer dust bunnies.  I did clean it out, earlier this year, but it's ready for another round of cleaning.  I basically have to hang upside-down off the dryer to reach the back of it.  Terribly awkward.  :p

 

still cleaning!!!

spending more time cleaning than posting, it seems!  Next big goal, Monday night, 4-H meeting, must be ready for that!  :-D

Been wanting to update...

two days ago was one of my first days to be home - I did a 30-second sprint in three different rooms, PLUS laundry and dishes.  I still have lots of catching up to do, mostly with laundry, but definately feeling good about what I did get done!  Also moved the fence around for the horses, so they have more fresh grass to eat.  Takes them a couple of days to eat what I give them when I do that.  lol  It's a lot of work for two days' feed, but still it's free food for them and free lawn mower & fertilizer, for us, all in one.

Yesterday, I spent a lot of time looking for my one wallet - I use it to carry what I don't use as regularily as my driver's licence, bank card, etc.  I need it for hockey season - has my coach and trainer certification cards in it.  Didn't find it, but I did sort through a lot of stuff and managed to get rid of a lot of junk!

Time for an update...
Two full days away, leaving before the crack of dawn and coming home right around bedtime, didn't get much done.  Monday, I wanted to accomplish something and not sure that happened, either.  So, today, updating my weightloss blog and figured I'd do a 30-second sprint in between loading pages - dial up is soooo slow, but sometimes that's a good thing! ;-)  So, yes, a 30-second sprint, here in the computer room, which it desperately needs a few of, anyway!  Want to get Steve moved into this room before Christmas, too!

Haven't been keeping up with blogging...

but that doesn't mean I haven't been cleaning!  This past Monday, I had company AND a 4-H meeting, here, so I did a HUGE cleaning job, that day!  Lots of decluttering, leaving a whole lot less stuff to hide away in my room!  Worked so hard on it, I ended up needing a day or two to recover!  :-)  Yesterday, I de-cluttered a whole set of shelves in our bedroom and feel so good about that!  Every little bit helps! 

Thanksgiving is almost here.  Not sure I'm going to be doing anything special for it here, after all, as Sarah and I will be at the Norfolk County Fair, almost all this upcoming week, right up to and including Thanksgiving Monday.  Today, we're at the Caledonia Fair, all day.  Life is sooo busy - it's amazing - and that's even without having to send Joe off to work, four nights a week.  Because we're so busy, during the fair, I do want to get a bit more done, before it starts.  Might yet have a belated Thanksgiving celebration.  Dad's combining, so that's typical for us, anyway!  :-)  And we still have Christmas!  :-D

Day Three, Continued - and nearly over...

Worked, 11 - 5, today, in Brantford.  Was a rather hectic day, there - made the time (and energy) go fairly quickly.  A good day, though, but got home and housework really wasn't my main priority.  But, I still want to get it done - Home for the Holidays!

So, I hid in my room and worked through two 'treasure chests' - in this case, two cardboard boxes full of stuff that needs to be sorted.  Purged a good pile of burnable garbage ('cause we do that, here) and a bit of regular garbage and I labelled my two treasure chests - each one of them has information that I will need before Monday night 4-H meeting!  NOW I know where it is!  Yay!

Now, it's bedtime and I've already had some chocolate milk (perfect bedtime 'snack' and I'm just wanting to do one little sprint, all for good measure!  :-)  That's the point of me keeping track!  Keeps me moving!  And really, thirty seconds isn't much!  ;-)  Ready, set, post and gone...

Day Two and Three - Still Going!

Another busy day, yesterday, though I didn't have to go out and earn a paycheque, anywhere!  Time for some catching up?  Not really, time to recover and refresh - have to work all weekend, too, so this is it.

Did some laundry and dishes throughout the day, but then at bedtime, I couldn't remember doing a sprint, so I did two!  Yay!

Today, off to work.  Laundry and dishes already well under way.  Leaving for work in about two minutes, so my sprint will again have to be an evening one.