I just had to clean it up.


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I just realized, as I'm ready to take down the Christmas tree this weekend (and put my new keyboard up woo hoo!) how many everyday things I own and actually use every day throughout the year that is Christmas themed. I know it started because Carlos and I just got our first place almost 3 years ago, and we used what we had, and some of that stuff ( Read more... )

Oh goodness. My cat Mochi is driving me nuts. Something about a Christmas tree is making her totally feral. I had to put her in another room for a while. I have scratches all over my hands and arms and she has been biting at my son's face. Not that he didn't provoke it half the time, but still ( Read more... )

This is a great blog and has a lot of wonderful ideas that I intend to steal! Check it out! If you have a messy office like I do, this seems like it will work wonders!

http://www.curbly.com/DIY-Maven/posts/3931-Use-Kitchen-Items-to-Unclutter-Your-DeskOn another note, I just had cottage cheese (I'm at work) and there was a bottle of wild honey that ( Read more... )

Another celebratory post. My daughter had been acting out of control for some reason, but she does this every so often, she'll get a wild hair. Well, I'd had enough. And instead of sending her to her room or taking videogames away, I thought I'd use this negative situation to make it a positive and EXTREMELY productive for she and I. Because she ( Read more... )

I've finally gotten the family involved in cleaning, well kind of forced by me not being home. I have 3 new jobs since the last time I posted. I work a 40 hour work week as a Graphic Designer for a biomedics company, I am an English tutor for the No Child Left Behind program here in Southern California, and I work one day a week at Ross-for the ( Read more... )

So I've gotten the place to a point that I am not completely depressed every time I walk in it. There are just a few pinpointed areas left to organize and clean, and systematically (to a point) keep decent. Here are some photographias...

Here I am after cleaning. I'm tired and ready for dinner! I love my crockpot!

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So yesterday I was exhausted from the week and today we took the kids hiking to a place i'd never been before. I thought it was going to be a short hike, but it ended up being very long and fairly strenous (especially since about 1/3 of the time I had an extra 40 lbs on my back (my son) and I came home and tried to sleep...couldn't, then we had ( Read more... )

Day 5: Taking a break to post to my livejournal!

I decided to take a break today and catch up on posting pics. Alyssa is doing the dishes tonight anyway and everything is almost done. I will be finished AHEAD of schedule on this one!

Here is my table with nothing on it after clearing that pile!


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Day 2: Pile it on

So I took everything that was on the banister and what was on top of the plastic storage I've moved into the closet and piled it onto the table. Tomorrow I will force myself to sort everything on there until there is nothing left. I've also started the new dish washing schedule. The old one involved dishes piling up until I had a ( Read more... )