Number of hours I spent on the phone for work yesterday: 2 and 1/2 (with only about a 15 minute break in the middle). Did I feel like I was melting into a pile of blahness in my chair after being on the phone for so long? Yes.
State of our house: eh, not terrible but definitely not ideal (see birthday cooking mess below)
Birthdays: Bro-in-law's bday was last week...and his card is still on my desk...hopefully he knows we didn't forget about his birthday all together, it took us over a week to decide what to get him.
Hubs' bday was yesterday and a success, I think :) Although one present won't be here until Thursday. I'm telling myself that just means he gets to stretch the celebration out for the whole week! And here's the aftermath of cooking three meals plus a cake yesterday:
Whittled it down to just a few dishes last night, yay!
PS - Do you see the lack of counter space I'm dealing with? I knew it wasn't much, but seeing this picture made it stand out even more. There's not really much available space on the other side of the kitchen either unless there are no clean or dirty dishes (no dishwasher, sigh). Also, now I feel compelled to do a post about how much we love our house because we really do. But when you live in a house that's almost 102 years old you have to put up with some annoyances of the things that give it character.
Happy Birthday Hubs! You're awesome and I wish I could've
given you the day off of work yesterday for your bday! I'm especially thankful you
were born because I got the best husband anyone could hope for out of the deal!
No icing on the cake due to icing failure
FYI almond extract is not always a good substitute for vanilla extract.
Rather than mush together bits and pieces of three unfinished posts into one (you're welcome) I'll try to just wrap up with my new cleaning strategy. I say try because I'm finding that I have a terribly hard time staying on topic when I write! Guess Hubs is right about my train of thought being all over the place when we're talking :/
I don't like doing dishes, therefore the kitchen is rarely spotless. I don't really have a good excuse for the rest of the house. So I have a new game plan. I'm hoping that by putting it on the internet I'll stick to it because if it's on the internet, it must be true. Hah.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
Spend 20 minutes each evening picking up clutter and just generally tidying up the place.
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
Dishes. Do them.
Sunday
Alternate between vacuuming and moping/cleaning tub and toilet.
So I'll let you know if this pans out. I'm hoping to have a sparkling house from now on and live happily ever after :) I think I can still get the happily ever after either way and we'll just have to see what happens with the sparkling house.
Haha do we have the same kitchen because I swear mine looks exactly like that (It's cruel enough not having a dishwasher, but having no counter space to put the dirty dishes is just sad lol). Loved the part about the icing fail. Happy belated birthday hubs and let me know how the sparkling house works out !
ReplyDeleteUgh, glad you posted that. I was totally going to skip the cleanup routine tonight and start tomorrow (great first day huh?), but now I feel obligated. Time to clean! :)
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