I haven't had much of a chance to get my physical life in order recently, in part due to work sucking my energy and soul away thus causing me to have too much butt-couch interface when I get home.  So today, since I'm having company on Sunday afternoon, I decided to kick my butt into some kind of gear and make some serious progress on the ( Read more... )

Just in the general sense.  I straightened my bedroom as much as possible, emptied the dishwasher, cleaned the upstairs bathroom, and got all of the things out of the cabinet section of the desk set and into two smallish boxes.  In the process I found a few more things to go to Goodwill.  Just as well; I hadn't taken the last batch in so I added ( Read more... )

The spice shelf and the tea/hot chocolate shelves (yes, plural) are today's goal to clean out and organize.  Started that just after breakfast and I'm taking a short break while I try to figure out what to do with the spices in plastic bags that have nowhere else to live.  Stuff like fenugreek and ground cubebs which I'm not quite  prepared to just ( Read more... )

Two drawers actually turned into three.  All the remaining socks now fit more-or-less comfortably in the single sock drawer rather than being scattered between two separate ares.  While I was at it I swapped the jeans drawer and the work-out clothing drawer and in the process found two pairs of black dress pants I didn't realize I had.  They fit ( Read more... )

This weekend combined two holidays for me:  Valentine's Day and President's Day.  Because I am a State employee I had yesterday (President's Day) off, and because I never take vacations, I made the weekend four days long so I won't get into the "use it or lose it" proposition vacation can become if I don't stay on top of it.

Given that I was going ( Read more... )

The lady who wanted it for her daughter came and took it away yesterday.  And while she was here she also took the last bag of fabric I was trying to get rid of.

Now to move the two empty bins out to the garage and finish cleaning the living room before Turkey Day...

For some reason I started to straighten the spare room late yesterday morning.

( For some reason I'm writing a lot about cleaning lately. Although a relatively short post, it's cut, so you don't have to suffer through it if you don't want to. )

Today, everything that was sitting on the workbench that was supposed to go was taken to Goodwill.  Three boxes and three bags of stuff, plus a few loose objects, all of which filled up the back seat of my car.  The only thing that did not go was the bed and frame; someone on the Caerthe list has indicated an interest in it, and I'm hoping she'll ( Read more... )

I have needed to get the garage reorganized for some little time now; a number of things have gone into this secondary storage space, but not in any organized fashion.  (For example, all the things found in the house to go to Goodwill are currently completely covering my workbench, thus making it useless for its intended purpose and making the ( Read more... )

The house is getting clean.  Today I managed both bathrooms and another small section of the bedroom.  (I've managed other sections of it before this, so now it's just a matter of getting the last little bits dealt with.  Like getting the mending done and off the armchair.)

The kitchen was technically finished last week, but I now have to put away ( Read more... )