checking pulse… yep, I’m still alive

Just been uninspired to post much of anything.
Spent my "weekend" doing jack-shit. (that is, no house cleaning). I think I may have done some on Saturday, but I don't really remember.

Today (Tuesday) I spent confined to my office, determined to go through the boxes I had hauled over from my parents' house, and sort through them, throw out the stuff I don't need (huh? what's this? two old balloons? Purple & teal... Oh yeah, from my 19th birthday party. whee! in the trash), and condensing the other stuff into banker's boxes. Setting aside miscellaneous books to put on a bookshelf, setting aside other things (a couple knick-knacks) I may want to display later when this place is actually clean...

I can now see most of my floor again!

I doubt I'll have any time to work on this place again tmw, as the honey & I are probably going to go out and do *stuff*. Lunch with some of Josh's family perhaps.

Or maybe I might, later in the day. Josh's brother may be coming over in the afternoon, which will give me a chance to slip away and get back to work on this room.

Gonna leave this one relatively short. Typing it while standing since there is stuff on my chair.

R.I.P - John & Johnny

that is all. :o(

The “eyes” have it.

I've set up a consultation at Barnett Dulaney Perkins Eye Center to see if I am a good candidate for their new IntraLasik procedure. My appointment is September 30th.

i’m working on it!

Mac wants everyone in her Blogroll to set up their sites for RSS. Mine is, sort of. Mine only does excerpt feeds at this time, so I know, from her post, that I may be getting an e-mail from her asking me to set it up for full posts. I will, but I need to finish my house cleaning first. ;o) Site maintenance will need to take a back seat for the time being. It's bad enough I'm sitting here posting something. :-D

plans schmlans..

Well, I started the day with good intentions. I got rid of about three medium sized boxes filled with newspapers (and the boxes got tossed, too), but while I was out disposing of those, I had to make a few other stops.

there is one small problem with cleaning my kitchen…

It gives my cats the idea that they now have permission to get on the counter tops (usually while we're sleeping) and roam around, 'cause there's nothing to impede them anymore (i.e. clutter).

I made the mistake of leaving a microwave bacon cooker on the counter after I made myself some bacon & eggs last night for dinner.

How'd that bacon grease taste, fellas? Mmmm..

Now, if you'll excuse me, I must go wash the bacon cooker.

who says house cleaning isn’t excercise?

Well, I only got one of the intended rooms done today, but I got distracted. Errands.

That, and I kind of started looking through a couple of galleries over at Elfwood, looking mostly for watercolor artists. Found some good ones, one of which I already knew of, and she has her own website, Stephanie Pui-Mun Law. She is very talented. Go check out her work!

One of the problems with Elfwood nowadays is that it has SO many galleries now, it would take forever and a day to go through them all, so one is left to finding things of interest through searches. And even those links are numerous. But, thumbnails are shown, and if you see one you like, when you click on it to take a closer look, you can also go to the artist's gallery and check out the rest of their work, too.

If you like art and have plenty of time to kill, go check out Elfwood.

Thursday I hope to have the living room & family room done, and once I'm done with those I'll clean the back bathroom. Then maybe start on my office again if there's time after that.

My calves hurt.

the queen of klutz

It takes mad skillz to scatter one's salad all over one's lap, the t.v. tray, and the floor. Now I have a nice Ranch dressing stain on my pant leg.

How did I accomplish this? Dropping the Ranch salad dressing bottle into my salad bowl (a Wendy's salad bowl, which is plastic and very light), after I had just finished putting dressing on the salad and closed up the lid on the bottle.

Of course, this was nothing compared to the time I tipped a plate full of Olive Garden's linguine a la marinara onto the floor. Sauce side down.

Oh, and I've spilled liquids onto my keyboard, too. My first MS Natural keyboard died when I spilled water on it. Then I got a new MS Natural keyboard to replace the dead one. Then I spilled Sprite on it. But, miraculously, it still works. This one wouldn't come apart as easily as the other one so I had to pop off all the keys on it and clean it with Q-Tips, and do my best to soak up what soda I could in the bottom of the keyboard with Q-Tips by prying apart the top & bottom halves of the keyboard. (the screws all came out, but there was something near the space bar that held the thing together even after all the screws were removed so I couldn't take it completely apart). So, other than a sticky Alt key (I guess I missed the soda there), the rest of the keys work fine.

I find it hard to believe that a keyboard that had water spilled on it died while one that had soda spilled on it survived. Oh well.

Yup. Mad skillz, I tell you.

oye, the back aches..

Well, I got the two rooms that I'd wanted to get done today, done. The spare room was almost as bad as my office (there is a bed in there, but all sort of junk was piled on top of it), so it took most of the day. Most of my time was spent organizing the 'junk' into their own boxes (for instance, most of the computer stuff: cables, etc, in its own box, cd jewel cases in their own box, etc., etc.).

Wednesday's plan:

• the kitchen
  
• the living room
  
• the family room (if there is time)
  

Oh, I can hardly wait.

and so it begins

the saga of cleaning my house.
I hope to be done in a week.
My office, I fear, will take the longest, as it is the worst room in the house. While the rest of the house is mostly cluttered, my office is a disaster area. (since bringing home boxes of mine from my parents' house, I can again only see a fraction of my floor).

Since I will be mostly house cleaning this week, posts will either be very rare, or late at night just before bed.

First up: Spare room & main bathroom, and if there is time when those are done, general picking up about the house. And maybe vacuuming.

Oh goody.

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