I actually got quite a lot done today, though in some ways it doesn't feel like it. I suppose that's because you don't get the emotional payback on a project that doesn't significantly alter the landscape of your life. I emptied an entire box from my apartment filled with stuff from my bathroom, worked to either put things away in their proper ( Read more... )

Whenever I need to feel motivated to clean up/declutter, I just watch some Clean House on the Style network. Today's task was tackling the pile of makeup that had accumulated in my bathroom since I cleaned out my apartment in Austin. The problem with having two places to store things is that eventually you fill both places up. In order to get my ( Read more... )

I haven't posted for the last several days because, frankly, nothing interesting has happened. I mean that in all sincerity. I've worked on getting ready to move, bought several hundred dollars worth of furniture and read. Today, I played with my CD collection, working alternately to: a) choose which CDs I'm taking and which will be remaining here ( Read more... )

I got up bright and early this morning and got right to work. By 9 a.m., I had already written 1,000 words for novel_in_90, done 15 minutes on the stationary bicycle and read my chapter for read_hp. Busy, busy. This afternoon, we did a little cooking. My mom and I got a half dozen ears of corn at the grocery store on Friday, so today we got steak to put on the grill ( Read more... )

I tried to get things done today, I swear to God. My bathroom is cleaned up, though not clean, but you can walk and there is counter space. I've been working on my bedroom, but it's still a fairly large mess after being out of town the past two weeks. The office is a disaster area, though we got most of the thank you notes for Mimi's funeral done, ( Read more... )

Happy Canadian Independence Day ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in my bedroom, which is dusted, cleaned and vacuumed. My closet is completely clean, also dusted and vacuumed, with all of my clothes hung neatly in order and taking up no more than two-thirds of the available hanging space. My shoes are put neatly into plastic boxes, one pair per box, stacked no higher than three boxes. In my dresser, ( Read more... )

I have to sleep on the floor tonight. My room currently looks a bit like a disaster zone, unfortunately, and there's no way I can sleep in there tonight. In a way, though, this is a good thing ( Read more... )

I actually got a surprising amount done today. I had to do a teleconference this morning, and it ended up being so boring that I completely resorted all of my books and put all of the new ones away. That's how boring it was. But the good news is that my bookshelves in the office look nice and tidy, and my books are (currently) all in one place, in ( Read more... )

I'm organizing my week, day by day. My mother will be out of town for most of the week, my father for two days. I've decided to go downtown on the one day neither of them will be home. I'm thinking that I'll hit Murder By The Book, the Half-Price Books in Rice Village, Z-Beads and a Jamba Juice for the ride home. I looked into going to one of the ( Read more... )