puh8suwrux's Journal

Do I have to?
Nov 10 2009 09:30

Do I really HAVE to get a cold NOW?  I've got that familiar burning and running in my nose that signals a cold coming on.  Yuck.  Going to take a dose of Airborne in the hopes of keeping it mild.  The kids have been eating oranges, so maybe they won't get it.

On a positive note, I got everything done yesterday that I wanted to get done.  The upstairs had a quick vaccum and mop, I cleaned off the counters in the kitchen and bathrooms, and cleaned the toilets.  It took me all day, but it got done, and boy, it feels nice!

Today I need to catch up on getting the laundry out of the laundry baskets and into drawers and closets.  Once I get that done, I want to start in on decluttering the master bedroom.  It is amazing how stuff just gets piled in there, until we have a tiny path to walk.  Of course, the computer and office stuff is in there, and it is not really that big of a room, and the only place to "hide" stuff when we have guests. 

Maybe I'll find the missing library book.  If it isn't in our room, I'll have to call and blame the library, because there really isn't anywhere else it could be.  I've cleaned everywhere else, and to be honest, I've tried to check out a number of books on the shelf that were "lost."  They make a lot of mistakes.

I need to focus on doing "maintenance" activities first every day, then additional tidying once those are done, so I can keep what I have!  Mom helped clean the TV/playroom downstairs, so all we have to do is keep that picked up.  I'm feeling like having the tea party here might not be so far of a stretch.  And once the visitor line has been crossed, maybe I'll feel more comfortable having people over on a regular basis.

13 years of stuff I'm trying to get rid of and organize.  We had boxes of junk that we moved with us two years ago - didn't have time to go through it before we moved.  Amazing what you carry with you for years before you finally discover you don't need it.

I started weighing food again today.  I'm going to stick with it.  Hopefully between being accountable for what I eat and spending all day cleaning I'll get back down to where I was.  I really don't want to take the time and energy to exercise when I'm making improvements with the house.  If I exercise I tend to take the rest of the day off.

Part of my problem was that my parents' visit made me constipated, even with the Miralax and lots of water - stress does that to me every time - so I gained about 3 pounds over the weekend.  And then I ate really badly.  Yesterday I think I did pretty well though - only had three pieces of chocolate halloween candy (which is an improvement).

#2 is putting "At least" at the beginning of half her sentences.  Most of the time it even makes sense - sometimes not.  Kids are so funny when they are learning how to have conversations.  But after having heard it 50 times in a day, it becomes a bit tiresome when I scold her for something like jumping on the bed and she responds in a cheery voice, "At least I can not fall off."

And #1 has a very best friend in the whole entire world named Alyssa.  She loves Alyssa.  She talks about Alyssa constantly.  She wants to eat what Alyssa eats.  She wants to be picked up from school like Alyssa.  She wants to paint her fingernails like Alyssa (We have a rule against this for now - let her grow up slowly - but we'll see how long that lasts.)  To be frank, I am quite jealous of Alyssa, who gets at least 3 drawings a day in her honor. 

Whatever happened to ME being the center of her world??!!!  I expected this in the tween years, NOT KINDERGARTEN!!

But then she'll bring me a "card", and it says "I LUV MOM," and it always makes me feel better.