What is it about a mother~in~law's visit that has you scurrying around in a panic ?? I immediately think of ALL the cleaning I need to do, but truthfully, I do this whenever I know ANYONE is coming over. I consider my house clean, maybe not clean enough for SOME but the older I've gotten, the better I've gotten about KEEPING it clean (well, except for my bedroom which is now basically a storage room for all my Christmas decorations.) Remind me to post a pic of THAT someday....shewwwwwww! Anyway, Hubby mentions on Monday that his mom was coming over today, so I jumped up and got the sheets and comforter off the guest bed and got those all washed up, just in case she stayed over~night. ( I found out she's not but, I got clean sheets now, right?) And armed with THE NOTEBOOK and a cup of coffee, I sat down and I wrote my list of what I wanted to get done before she got here. (I'll have to tell you about my lists someday). For the amount of time it actually takes me to WRITE the list out. I could have had everything already done already, but noooooo, not me....I keep stalling. I was still stalling till about 5 a.m. this morn. So I get started cleaning.... I wash and put the dishes away..again. I swear that Hubby of mine is cooking constantly (NOT that I'm complaining!!) and it seems like I spend most of the time in kitchen cleaning up. He'd beg to differ and tell you that it's spent sitting in front of this computer. (He would be telling the truth). Then I dusted. From the amount of dust around here I'd swear we live in one of the dust bowl states. I dust almost every. single. day. and 2 hours later you literally can't tell it, Am I the only one that has to DO this??!! And the dog hairs!! Gawwww!! SO, I swept. I'm totally ashamed at how much dog hair accumulates IN ONE DAY'S time from those 2 hounds of mine. Sometimes I wonder if they're worth it but...in a heartbeat, I always answer myself, of course they are! I don't even want to THINK of my life without them. They bring me joy that only a "fellow dog or cat lover" could truly understand and appreciate. Then I did laundry. How 2 people can have SO much laundry is beyond me. I rebelled at having to do a load everyday, (like I'm real busy anyway??), so I started doing it about once a week....or less. So, it's a dilemma of doing the "dailies" vs. getting out the" chair and whip" to keep it contained in the laundry room. I think I'll switch back to daily. Then I clean the bathrooms. Thankfully they're never too bad, well, except the master bathroom, I tend to let it go and keep the one for guests CLEAN. I don't like anything on the bathroom sink, at all except the soap. The towel on the towel holder HAS to be even at the bottom and CENTERED on the rod, an even amount on each side of the bar showing and I cringe every time I go in there and it's been knocked off centered...grrrrrr. I'm a tad bit OCD about SOME things, while I can let my bedroom become a storage room, I had to end up getting rid of the place mats on my kitchen table cuz they had to be lined up with the edge of the table and every. single. time. I'd walk by that table, the place mats would be shoved off their "mark"....What the heck!!?? I bet I literally straightened them 20 times a day till finally I wanted to quit stressing over it and threw'em away. My life had been much simpler since... The last stop on my cleaning list is the "office", the main room I live in. I straightened my desk and I was DONE! Why is it that I can get more cleaning accomplished in an hour or so...VS. a couple days of notice?? I must work better in a stressed atmosphere?? Well craps...I forgot to mop the floors!!!.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Now for a few pics I took yesterday.....the salamander has the same look in every single pic with his beady lil eyes and same "pose". He was on top of my concrete angel statue. The nerve of him... but after some hesitation, I started clicking away.
I never did like creepy, crawly things anyway. So...moving right along to less scary things, like FLOWERS! This little beauty is called a Wandering Jew. I hope your Wednesday is a good one! Thanks for stopping by for a visit :)
Y'all be good and be pretty and as always.... ✻ღϠ₡ღ✻ God Bless ✻ღϠ₡ღ✻ |
HI! My name is Lori and I am a self~ proclaimed agoraphobic and rarely leave my home. My blog is a place for me to come and embrace my Edith Bunker tendencies and to share a few of the things I love. Stories, recipes and crafts, all with a little humor thrown in along the way! ღღ
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