woo!

I cant say that I am perky today, but some things HAVE been done. I did the dishes last night, and tidied the bench, cleaned the stove and wiped down the sink..and even got out the corned beef.

There was no sleeping with the window open, coz it was too windy and the weights in the blinds bang and crash against the wall. I did take a multi vitamin and a couple of cod liver oil capsules - for the Vit D.

This morning, I told myself that I couldn't get online until the lounge was tidy, so I sorted most of that out to a tolerable level and put the corned beef on. This bit of meat is brilliant in the crock pot.

Before and after shots.

Ugh. Cant sit on the couch or other arm chair. Clothes horse in the way of everything, and the dog blanket.


Only a slight improvement, but better than nothing! Now the cat has a bit of couch to sleep on, and another cat can claim the arm chair.

I am wanting to find a way/place to store the socks I am knitting. Right now they live on the couch, in the bottom left side of the after shot, or on the arm of it. There are four pairs on the go at the moment. That's...more than 27 needles. Nine for each pair, plus however many for the store bought socks I am reknitting which has the instep stitches on a circular.

Anyway, I feel much better about it being tidier. But I expect that is the added vitamins more than anything else. This weeks Zone is the lounge so I guess I am still sort of on track.

tsk tsk

I'm not sure I can claim to be a Flybaby at the moment. I didn't even LOOK at last weeks missions, and I don't think I've done the dishes/shined the sink before bed in at least a couple of weeks. :( The motivation just isn't there! I also have far fewer visitors over winter - likely a result of not being at all sociable - and with the addition of really GREAT books to read on my Kindle...yeah.

I've been going to bed at 6, 7pm to read because there hasn't been anything on tv and to make sure the heater doesn't go on. Sometimes I head there not expecting to go to sleep, but I do. Other times, and this is frequent in winter, I read until after midnight, and still not get to sleep before 2am. On those nights, the last thing I want to do is get back up to do the dishes/sink. And it is really too cold to do it anyway. I don't have the heater on as a rule, so the indoor temperature can be as little as 7C. Getting up to wash dishes for 4 mins isn't worth the cost of whacking the heater on for that amount of time.

We are past the shortest day, and already things are looking brighter. Ok, I realise we have just as much light as we did 4 days BEFORE the solstice...but it still feels brighter :P I also realise there is another 9 weeks of Winter.

Because the temperature has risen the last couple of days - like, its a whole 11C outside, the bedroom window has been open the last two nights. On both of which I actually got to sleep before midnight. perhaps I shall take a multi vitamin, sleep with the window open again tonight and see what that does for the motivation levels. Getting tomorrows tea out of the freezer tonight would also help, especially if I want the corned beef to thaw out.

If improved vitamin levels don't help, then I expect this blog will stay very very quiet until Spring. I don't think I have fallen off the wagon, I'm just in hibernation :D That said though, I figured out the other day that if you 'have to tidy up coz a visitor is coming' then you are well slack on the housework :s

C'est la vie

slackness

Grey days really are NOT conducive to tidying up. I am fairly sure I have Seasonal Affective Disorder, though I am not sure that the Dr has actually said that.

But anyway, with a visitor due today, and one that is allergic to cats I have done a half decent job of vacuuming. But I also got out the front of the house and tidied that up. All the cannas were frost bitten and the other plants were over growing the path. I even tidied up the prunings and hosed down the path.

This is what it looks like now:










That pile of STUFF is going to end up being mulch. If I wanted to get fussy I would cut back the grass. But that is enough for today, it is much improved. It also ties in well for todays mission, I just did the outside, rather than inside...though, I guess I did that too by moving the monitor and baby seat.