Dishes, floors, sheets, towels. The list could go on forever if you let it. Just knocking a few items off the list while the girls are all away for a few days. I was pretty busy yesterday, so I put cleaning off until this morning. Oddly enough I thought I would end up sleeping in until 10:00-11:00am, but I was awake by 7:00am, and had sheets in the wash, floors vacuumed, and dishes cleaned, and BBQ back under wraps before eight o’clock.
Last nights dinner was a little disappointing. I bought a fresh steak, of decent quality, left it in marinade for six plus hours, and misjudged my flipp and went too far over medium rare. Gah! My potato done with garlic cloves and olive oil drizzled over top became an over cooked roast potato that stabbed me in the gums on one side of my mouth. Had an M&M peanut that had gone bad, which also stabbed me in between two teeth, and that ended any desire to eat anything else. I did have a rather delicious rye and coke with dinner, which was ice cold, and rather tasty. I’ll stick with an oven pizza today. Skip anything extraneous.
I bought American Prometheous, and am now farther into that than the latest Adrian Tchaikovsky book. I want to go see Oppenheimer, but my bladder won’t last 3 hours in a theater, it just won’t. So I’ll watch John Wick four later today. I expect the kids to come home late tomorrow night, so I should watch anything violent, or gun crazy today, just to be sure.
I’m going to need to mop the kitchen floors today too. I washed the counters last night after making myself dinner. I should clean the stove top too while I’m at it. I’m thinking about all of the clothes we need to sort through in September. Bags upon bags, boxes, and bins full of the stuff. I love that we get stuff in for the kids,,but the pipelines gotta include pushing smaller clothing items out too. I need to drag a net through this whole house to get rid of all the broken toys, or the McDonalds plastic junk that accumulates every six months. Not that I want the house to be bare, but it doesn’t need to resemble the early stages of a house from hoarders, or a junk yard. Busted paper craft things litter the ground in the kids rooms. Random drawings, paintings and pictures are strewn everywhere, crumpled, ripped, torn, you name it. Stashed under boxes, inside drawers, used as bedding for stuffed animals. While I applaud their imaginative uses for non standard items, we do have too much of it absolutely everywhere. Ugh. So. Much. Stuff. It’s a lot.
I remember when I got both girls off to school together for the first time. I took three or four garbage bags worth of junk out of the house. Last year was considerably less than that. But I was also busier with work, so that hampered me a little. But I expect a good sized bags worth could once again come out of this house if I took the time to really organize, and triage the messes. That’s a September me problem. Ciao Bella!
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