Current Mood:
I’ve got an Idea!
UPDATED AGAIN 3/19/08: Last time I updated I think I was bluffing. We’ve REALLY accomplished some things now! Check out my post on how much we’ve gotten done.
UPDATE 9/3/07: We’ve actually accomplished some things on the list this weekend! YEAH Check my latest post to find out how things are moving along.
I’ve been thinking today….I know it’s dangerous, but it’s something I tend to do when I get left alone for 2 minutes of sheer bliss in not hearing “MOM”. Anwyay, this afternoon it seems as if the clutter has REALLY gotten to me and I am ready to declutter the house. It all started when Clare wanted to play a game of Mancalla, and we were missing 4 beads. We found 2 of them, but in order to find the rest of them I think it’s time to sort through the junk that’s accumalated around here.
So, in an effort to do that I started making a list of all the things I want to accomplish this Fall in my head (and I think we will start this weekend while Clare is gone for a few days to the in-laws). I think the best way to start accomplishing these things is to get them out of my head and on some sort of medium whether it be paper or here for the world to see. My list is below, and as I accomplish the things or add on to it I will post updates.
1. Clean out the office, patch, paint, and move Clare into her new large room.
2. While moving Clare into her room I want to sort through the toys, reorganize, and label bins for her to put things away in an orderly manner. We will also be moving the large toy shelf up in her room, so ALL of her toys will be in one room.
3. Repaint Clare’s old room, and put the office back together in the smaller bedroom. Going through the clutter as we put it back together of course.
4. Clean out ALL the closets. Get rid of clothing we haven’t worn in the past year, weed out Clare’s smaller clothing, and regain some hangers for the clothes we do wear.
5. Clean our bedroom. Reorganize, and get rid of things we no longer use…..or haven’t used.
6. Get a quote to have our bathroom redone. We have a mold problem, and I think it’s gone beyond our skillz in making it into something I don’t mind going into to take a shower every day. I want to retile the floor, put in an exhaust fan (the electrical is hideous upstairs, and needs a professional to fix it), and maybe a new light fixture depending on how much it costs.
7. Start working on getting the basement finished (or the half we want finished). We want to make a TV room down/entertaining area down there.
8. Sell some of the computer crapt my darling hubby keeps bringing home. We have some boxes in the garage that have who know what in them, and they haven’t been touched in over a year and a half. Our basement also is home to some things we need to sell or give away to Good Will so we can make our room happen.
9. Finish working on some of the scrapbooks I started last month. I will need to have last years CO trip printed, and I need to put our wedding/honeymoon pictures in the album. I know, we’ve been married for 6 years and I start an album now…..well I had an empty album, and the pics printed it was just a matter of time before I got to putting them together.
10. Finish the back porch. We have a little back porch off our upstairs, and currently it’s an open space. I think it’d make a nice reading room with a futon for over night guests…..as currently our guest room is the office with an air mattress.
11. Have our roof looked at, to see when or if it needs to be redone. We had some icicles on the back porch last winter, so I have a feeling it needs to be done soon. We also need to redo our garage roof…..but we have to coordinate that with our neighbor as it’s a shared driveway & garage.
12. Oil our hard woods. We’ve lived here for what will be 5 years in January, and have never done anything with the floors. Our floors have been abused regularly though with a rambunctious 5 yr. old and a dog that likes to run.
Tired or Sleepy
Since we tackled one of our major projects this past weekend (you can read the post on that here) other stuff went by the wayside. Yesterday I ended up doing some blogging, e-mailing, touch-up painting, started working on the trim in Clare’s new room, and took care of Clare as she stayed home sick with a cold. She slept in until 10am yesterday, so I knew she wasn’t feeling well. 
this weekend. Why is it that things seem to never end around here. As soon as I have every piece of laundry done, there’s always more. I suppose that’s what happens when you like to be clean and fresh. While the laundry is doing it’s thing I’ll also be working on the trim again. I am hoping to have things tidied up in the paint arena by Thursday the latest so I can start hauling furniture and going through the toys. We’ll see though, knowing my luck next Tuesday I’ll still be tackling it - knock on wood though that I won’t!
Happy
Violent
So I’ve been re-cataloging and re-ripping my CD collection to FLAC as I talked about in a previous post. It’s really turned into quite a chore; with three machines setup to rip CD’s. I’m now getting about 10-15 CD’s an hour ripped, which means that at something like 1000 CD’s to rip, it’ll be done sometime in June.
Jammin’
Bored
