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I have been needing to pee for ages now and have been putting it off because my hands are completely destroyed from the winter dryness, and I just really didn't want to have to wash them again. I finally "splurged", after giving the petroleum jelly a chance to sink in. It's not uncommon for my knuckles to be cracked and bleeding in the winter, but it seems worse this year than other years. Today, though, the inside bends of my fingers are cracking open. We have a humidifier going in the bedroom but it doesn't seem to be doing much good. I gave up on froofy lotions years ago and stick to vaseline-type products. Yet another reason why winter is an inferior season.
Anyway.
I have been experimenting with something completely wild and crazy. It goes like this: when you are on your feet, or if you're sort of sitting around doing nothing, pick up like three things and take them where they belong.When you get to that location, put the item away and then return to your place of origin. If there are still things out of place in the area you were clearing, and you don't get distracted by taking a child to the bathroom or turning the television channel or checking Facebook* or making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or something equally earth-shattering... continue, as desired.
That, combined with some time spent with more mundane chores like actually cleaning the kitchen? It is making my house look like real people live here! People, and not wild animals! I didn't start off with a clean house and obviously living with a preschooler means that it's a lot like shoveling snow while it's still snowing, but the overall trend is upwards.. and that is during the Christmas season, in which there is candy and crafts and present wrapping and all of that fun stuff. Also, when M gets home, he belongs to Evie. She wants him to follow her around and play with her and while she doesn't usually SAY that she wants me to stay away, it's implied. ;) So, I have started using that time to play the above game (if I call it a game, that will make it sound more fun) and get a few key things done. I like to clear the living room floor and at least the pathway through Evie's room to the bathroom. (Her dollhouse bookcase sits on that wall, and the Barbies usually end up on the floor right where you walk. I mean, it's not like the house is so cluttered that I am clearing pathways in the sense that you will soon see me on Hoarders. Just making sure the toys in that area are out of the floor.) It's so NICE to look around and see clean counter tops and to know where things are! I have a long way to go until everything is always in its place but it's definitely a step in the right direction. Maybe one day we can all get in the habit of putting things where they go as we finish using them? heh.
I would like to publicly denouce my husband as partaking of a bait and switch scheme. He indicated that he was trying to get me out of the sunroom, where we--HAHAHAHA! by which I mean, I--have been doing the wrapping this year. So I dutifully came back in here and stopped working out there so he could put up his veil of secrecy out there. What did he do? He returned to his computer, sent two emails and now is reading mandolin forums. HMMM. Maybe he just didn't want to feel like a slacker if I was still up working on things?
I got out a pad of paper to make a to-do list for tomorrow but the mere thought of actually writing down everything I need to do is intimidating me into procrastination via LiveJournal. I am pretty much assuming that the kiddo will have one of those days where she won't let me get anything done. Sometimes she will, sometimes she won't. You never know. I guess that procrastinating is not really helping me in the long run, though, so maybe I should try to get a few things written down before I have to go to bed. It's time for that already.
*Speaking of Facebook, I am there more than I am here now. It's sad but true. Many of you are already on my friends list there, but if you're not and you want to be... my name as used there is Kisha Gilliam Geijer.
Anyway.
I have been experimenting with something completely wild and crazy. It goes like this: when you are on your feet, or if you're sort of sitting around doing nothing, pick up like three things and take them where they belong.When you get to that location, put the item away and then return to your place of origin. If there are still things out of place in the area you were clearing, and you don't get distracted by taking a child to the bathroom or turning the television channel or checking Facebook* or making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or something equally earth-shattering... continue, as desired.
That, combined with some time spent with more mundane chores like actually cleaning the kitchen? It is making my house look like real people live here! People, and not wild animals! I didn't start off with a clean house and obviously living with a preschooler means that it's a lot like shoveling snow while it's still snowing, but the overall trend is upwards.. and that is during the Christmas season, in which there is candy and crafts and present wrapping and all of that fun stuff. Also, when M gets home, he belongs to Evie. She wants him to follow her around and play with her and while she doesn't usually SAY that she wants me to stay away, it's implied. ;) So, I have started using that time to play the above game (if I call it a game, that will make it sound more fun) and get a few key things done. I like to clear the living room floor and at least the pathway through Evie's room to the bathroom. (Her dollhouse bookcase sits on that wall, and the Barbies usually end up on the floor right where you walk. I mean, it's not like the house is so cluttered that I am clearing pathways in the sense that you will soon see me on Hoarders. Just making sure the toys in that area are out of the floor.) It's so NICE to look around and see clean counter tops and to know where things are! I have a long way to go until everything is always in its place but it's definitely a step in the right direction. Maybe one day we can all get in the habit of putting things where they go as we finish using them? heh.
I would like to publicly denouce my husband as partaking of a bait and switch scheme. He indicated that he was trying to get me out of the sunroom, where we--HAHAHAHA! by which I mean, I--have been doing the wrapping this year. So I dutifully came back in here and stopped working out there so he could put up his veil of secrecy out there. What did he do? He returned to his computer, sent two emails and now is reading mandolin forums. HMMM. Maybe he just didn't want to feel like a slacker if I was still up working on things?
I got out a pad of paper to make a to-do list for tomorrow but the mere thought of actually writing down everything I need to do is intimidating me into procrastination via LiveJournal. I am pretty much assuming that the kiddo will have one of those days where she won't let me get anything done. Sometimes she will, sometimes she won't. You never know. I guess that procrastinating is not really helping me in the long run, though, so maybe I should try to get a few things written down before I have to go to bed. It's time for that already.
*Speaking of Facebook, I am there more than I am here now. It's sad but true. Many of you are already on my friends list there, but if you're not and you want to be... my name as used there is Kisha Gilliam Geijer.
