Lists, Lectures and Laundry

I called my dearest friend Maternal Mirth last week for a chat. We got into discussing housework, and she told me she had lists.


Now I often hear of lists that people make, and prior to our conversation I had just started the week before of making a list for the next day, of things that had to be done. It all started when Sophie had to take antibiotics and get a foot soak twice a day (upper toe nail infection) so to remember I would write it down. I also started to add things that were random, like calling the Village Hall to find out what that ungodly noise was coming from the bathroom when you used the water (I thought the pipes were going to burst the whole damn floor humms and shakes. The Village Idiot  Plumming inspector said to push a button inside the toilet. I seriously thought he was blowing smoke up my ass because I was a girl, but needless to say he was right. We have to do it each time it happens. To weird though. ANYWAY off track here...)

So these lists were becoming a daily thing, and quite useful. My thought process on lists prior to this was, What the fuck, I've got 704 things to do today, and NO time to write it all down. Fuck it.

Not fast forward a week to my conversation with Maternal Mirth, and how she has a "list" that she hand wrote, and she photo copied it to check off. She says she tries to do this list 2x's a week. She also has a "maids list" of more detailed work (think dusting baseboards, cleaning blinds) this list she tries to do 1-2x's a month.

Key word "try". I asked her to email me her lists, and as soon as I got them I printed one copy, then sat down one morning with my cup of inspiration juice, Starbucks coffee! in my hand and tweeked her list according to my house...lets just say her one sheet is my two sheets. I also have more rooms. She has more square footage but mine is divided up into tinier rooms.

I wasn't too crazy with my list, keeping it simple for me, but enought that I could keep up with housework. The maids list is probably not going to be used for quite some time, because I need to get into a routine of simple housework before I get out my rubber gloves and Q-Tips for the detailing.

So I called her a few days later, because I was sitting on Facebook for hours, I had a messy house, and needed inspiration to get off my lazy ass and do something. I was looking for a lecture, possibly some yelling and screaming, telling me how horrible of a housewife I was. What did I get?

Sweet Maternal Mirth saying "Don't be hard on yourself. I said in my email that I TRY to do my lists. So just try. If you make your housework evil and chore, you won't want to do it. If you just do a bit at a time, and reward yourself with things like the art room, and facebook, you will feel much better."

As much as I was looking for a screaming lecture, or at least a stern voice, she has known me for close to 3 decades, and knows that force doesn't work for me. Glitter, sunshine and rainbows is what inspires me to work. So be it.

I do need to keep with the lists, I picked Thursdays and Sundays as my work days. Thursday is the day after my classes I teach so I am not concerned with them, and Sunday is like everyone elses Fridays (Spaghetti is off work Mondays & Tuesdays)

I am hoping that I can keep with the lists, and my laundry, if anyone cares (is anyone still reading this excitement?) is doing well. I am keeping up with it for the most part, I am trying (again key word is TRY) to keep it off the floors, and keep it moving. I know Maternal Mirth can do her's twice a week, I do believe if I did that, I would never keep up. Maybe someday, till then I do laundry almost every day.

There's your update on life around here. It's been cleaning, and purging. I have an enormous garage sale coming up on May 1st, we set up April 30th, and let the early birds pre shop a bit, it's a subdivision thing and people come from as far as Chicago to shop! (Were bout an hour away)

I will be spending all my free time from now till then (besides Weaky's birthday Sunday!) getting ready! Oh and Happy Earth Day!!

A. TT. I. C. Get it? A titty I see? No? Whatever...

Alright so I thought the title was funny, no? It's not about seeing TT's at all, it's about getting shit down around my house, and thanks to my kick ass parents I did.


I need to ask a question, on what you would call this space. If you are in Weaky's bedroom on the second floor, and you go into his closet, my dad had cut a hole in the wall that lead to this space. (there once was access directly below where I am sitting you had to get a ladder and go up through the garage) I thought this was was easier.

And so my question is, what do you call it? We say attic, but my mom the Queen thinks crawl space? Not sure because I thought the crawl space was down below the house, and the attic was above the living space, and this is neither?! It's this big ass section at the front of the house, that my wonderful dad, Carrots, put in a plywood floor, that I covered with old blankets and rugs, and it's the toy/purse/extra dinner chair storage area.

The big event of the day was to move this big brown dresser behind my head to this space (Carrots and Spaghetti were betting we wouldn't get it through the mini door (the door is only 4 feet by 2 feet) but we did with ease, and I even got it sideways! Great for storage (btw I look like I have pink antlers from the ribbon handle I rigged on the dresser, and speaking of how I look, I haven't lost a damn pound in the Lose it Bitch challenge, I am pathetic. I look like a hippo)

 And here it the view from the other dirrection, wish I had before and after, these are just before, so mentally erase all those bags to the Queens right, and the crap off the floor (we are selling 4 bags of toys at the garage sale from this mess!!)

Check out the old school video things Queen and Bagel have! You would pop these yellow vhs looking things into the end and turn the crank to watch a silent mini movie. She is finally getting the hang of one eye closed to do this!

Might seem kinda weird, but I made my mom save almost every toy I had as a kid. ALL the damn little pieces too. I have O' Jenny houses and the people too (think pre polly pocket) I have Sulvanians (little furry animals that live like people, and their house too) I have Precious Places SO many of the houses, and people, and the mansion! I have these BIG 3 story barbie houses (two of them, one was Frances' and one was mine, for Bagel along with Barbie clothes, and furniture) I have my little pony, mermaids, care bears, strawberry short cake, rainbow bright, I mean ALL the people, their cars, there accessories.

SO my weird idea is, when Bagel and Weaky are age appropriate for each toy, I will give them as a gift. Say Xmas, or Birthday, Easter, whatever. This Easter will be the Carebears for both of them. But don't think Weaky will miss out, he is lucky to have a mom that loved boy toys too! I have ALL the Thunder Cats, Tinker toys, matchbox's, Aunt Fraces' Richard Scary farm, but he get's the most important toy of them all...

My lego collection. I am a Lego Maniac, I have loved them since I first layed eyes on them. And now I have a boy to give them too. But I still have to wait about 6 more years, till little man is 8 years old for him to get them. I can't wait.

Don't worry they still get current toys, I don't force them to live in 1988 toy land. But it's fun to see them play with what made me so happy as a kid.

In other news, while the Queen and I entertained two small kids and purged, cleaned and reminised about old toys, Carrots was a busy boy he had to fix a loose cable wire in Weakys room, and

Install a new ceiling fan in my loft. Silly man installed one about a year ago, got it from a friend. Nice friend that forgot to tell him the light didn't work. So for almost a year, I have been struggling to see in the dark, or by lamp. But now I have a HUGE light there! Hooray!! Thanks Dad!

And my other reasons for ditching out on you blogger?

Since I got over the flu I got a BIG ol' clean and purge bug up my ass, I also only have 60 something days till the big garage sale I need to get stuff gone through! And so that is my day on Friday! Now onto another post about more randomness you may or may not care about!