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As usual for a three-day weekend, I have a bajillion things I am wanting to accomplish. Also as usual for a three-day weekend, what I really feel like doing is fucking off.
What I NEED to do this weekend is get the living room cleaned up because the universe is determined that I will be making a maintenance request for one thing or another very soon. Our dryer is making a noise which sounds to me suspiciously like a death rattle; and the rod which holds the vertical blinds above the patio door is pulling out of the wall bolt by bolt and by the looks of it will likely come crashing down, possibly bringing a significant chunk of the wall with it, sometime in the next week or so.
These are only the most urgent maintenance needs. We also have a closet shelf which actually did crash down a few weeks ago, slinging forty hundred pounds of assorted crap onto the ground and cracking the dome of a $40 Booda litter box; a dishwasher that has developed some sort of short and must be started by a well-place fist thump, Arthur Fonzarelli-style; and a newly-sprung leak around the kitchen faucet.
I haven't been doing jack shit around here lately. I used to do all my cleaning in the morning because I just don't have the energy to do it after work, but for the past few weeks all my morning hours are spoken for by the gym. Evenings I am just wiped out, and lucky to get a decent dinner on the table most nights. Weekends I spend a ridiculous amount of time grocery shopping and running errands, and a few happy hours of R&R with the hubs. I'm sure the housework would fit in there somewhere if I had more energy and were better at time management, but for whatever reason it just ain't happening. The place is a wreck.
So as soon as I am done here I'm going to get cracking on this place for a couple of hours, then get a shower and get ready to go see a movie. I'm dying to see Indiana Jones but I'm not one to fight opening weekend crowds, so I think we're going to see Harold and Kumar instead.
Tomorrow morning we need to get up early and get the oil changed in my car. I need to go exercise at some point, and we also want to go to Borders for awhile. Probably fit in another couple of hours of cleaning as well.
Monday I really want to get out somewhere for a nice little hike. Nothing too strenuous, but at least get out and tromp around in the nature and get some exercise.
I also need to fit in there somewhere:
Go to Home Depot to get some replacement slats for the vertical blind. The ones that came with the place are cheap vinyl, and with the demise of three more in the last week, I think about half of them are missing now. The remaining ones are smudged and dirty enough that we might as well go ahead and replace them all.
Wash and clean out my car.
Sort the two-month backlog of mail.
Clean out the fridge.
Go through the four assorted laundry baskets in the living room and bedroom which are overflowing with unfolded laundry and assorted other crap of mine, and see if in the process of creating order I uncover my lost iPod. Though I have a sick feeling that I may have lost it somewhere outside the apartment and will never see it again.
Purge my closet of a bunch of art & craft crap that I probably won't be using any time in the near future, and get rid of the majority of my witchcraft books, sex how-to books and miscellaneous crap. I hate to get rid of this stuff because odds are I will want it again a few months in the future, but I simply do not have enough space to keep all of it and still have a place to put away the stuff I actually use. What I need to do is rent a BIG self-storage locker somewhere. The last time I looked into it, it was surprisingly pricy, I thought; but maybe we need to just figure out a way to do it if only for the sake of my sanity.
I'd also like to maybe have some sex if there's time. Probably not today but maybe Sunday? Or Monday morning? I've got some new sex toys I'd like to try out, and I haven't tied Ian up in awhile...
What I NEED to do this weekend is get the living room cleaned up because the universe is determined that I will be making a maintenance request for one thing or another very soon. Our dryer is making a noise which sounds to me suspiciously like a death rattle; and the rod which holds the vertical blinds above the patio door is pulling out of the wall bolt by bolt and by the looks of it will likely come crashing down, possibly bringing a significant chunk of the wall with it, sometime in the next week or so.
These are only the most urgent maintenance needs. We also have a closet shelf which actually did crash down a few weeks ago, slinging forty hundred pounds of assorted crap onto the ground and cracking the dome of a $40 Booda litter box; a dishwasher that has developed some sort of short and must be started by a well-place fist thump, Arthur Fonzarelli-style; and a newly-sprung leak around the kitchen faucet.
I haven't been doing jack shit around here lately. I used to do all my cleaning in the morning because I just don't have the energy to do it after work, but for the past few weeks all my morning hours are spoken for by the gym. Evenings I am just wiped out, and lucky to get a decent dinner on the table most nights. Weekends I spend a ridiculous amount of time grocery shopping and running errands, and a few happy hours of R&R with the hubs. I'm sure the housework would fit in there somewhere if I had more energy and were better at time management, but for whatever reason it just ain't happening. The place is a wreck.
So as soon as I am done here I'm going to get cracking on this place for a couple of hours, then get a shower and get ready to go see a movie. I'm dying to see Indiana Jones but I'm not one to fight opening weekend crowds, so I think we're going to see Harold and Kumar instead.
Tomorrow morning we need to get up early and get the oil changed in my car. I need to go exercise at some point, and we also want to go to Borders for awhile. Probably fit in another couple of hours of cleaning as well.
Monday I really want to get out somewhere for a nice little hike. Nothing too strenuous, but at least get out and tromp around in the nature and get some exercise.
I also need to fit in there somewhere:
Go to Home Depot to get some replacement slats for the vertical blind. The ones that came with the place are cheap vinyl, and with the demise of three more in the last week, I think about half of them are missing now. The remaining ones are smudged and dirty enough that we might as well go ahead and replace them all.
Wash and clean out my car.
Sort the two-month backlog of mail.
Clean out the fridge.
Go through the four assorted laundry baskets in the living room and bedroom which are overflowing with unfolded laundry and assorted other crap of mine, and see if in the process of creating order I uncover my lost iPod. Though I have a sick feeling that I may have lost it somewhere outside the apartment and will never see it again.
Purge my closet of a bunch of art & craft crap that I probably won't be using any time in the near future, and get rid of the majority of my witchcraft books, sex how-to books and miscellaneous crap. I hate to get rid of this stuff because odds are I will want it again a few months in the future, but I simply do not have enough space to keep all of it and still have a place to put away the stuff I actually use. What I need to do is rent a BIG self-storage locker somewhere. The last time I looked into it, it was surprisingly pricy, I thought; but maybe we need to just figure out a way to do it if only for the sake of my sanity.
I'd also like to maybe have some sex if there's time. Probably not today but maybe Sunday? Or Monday morning? I've got some new sex toys I'd like to try out, and I haven't tied Ian up in awhile...