sigh

I'm a bit put out today. It's for a silly-ish reason and all. I planned to have corned beef for tea, cooked in the crock pot, and got an invitation for a sleep over tonight, so now...no corned beef. With the house a lot tidier though, I could, in theory, invite the invitee to dinner. But I don't have a table. Yes, this is important to me. Hows does one have guests for dinner with no dining table?

Todays mission is to wipe down the loungeroom walls. I have barely any walls available to the general room, so I don't really have anything to do today (I will get behind the tv unit and wash down the wall under the lounge room window though). Instead, I think I will wash some of the ceiling. Its hard to get going though, as it is a frosty frosty morning and I don't have heating on until about May..and then only at night when the house is closed up. I long for an old fashioned wood fire at times like this, but I then fast forward to paying for the wood and the mess and everything, and get quite glad that I *don't* have one.

Perhaps I should have a look at the detailed cleaning lost to see what ELSE is supposed to be done in Zone 5, eh? Ack! that finishes today!

Here's is a dinner picture from the other day. Its a dish (mjaddarah - there are a LOT of different spellings) that a chat buddy recommended to me a while back, and was an instant hit in my house.

Onto the housework.

Todays mission

Was to dust the knick knacks. I don't have any of course, but I do have a collection of clocks and espresso mugs. I am sure it hasn't been that long since I dusted them, but they collected a pile of it anyway. The two top pictures are the clocks with Mt Sheen on them. I didn't think to take pics before starting. I really should work on getting proper shelves for them.

lounge room tidy up

Before, and after. I'm not sure there much of an improvement. The cords are frustrating..but I hope to shift the whole modem/router mess to the spare room soon enough.

another Sunday

And as I sit here I can see a few things that should have been dealt with quite a few 'nows' ago. Like the bag I took to work...on Thursday. :s

I think my 'bleh-ness' has been mainly not eating right, and bugs. I took a multi vitamin on Friday night and woke up perkier than I have been, and even got going on lunch at 10am. This morning I've been sneezing more than I normally would, and I am not prone to allergies.

So even though its a day of rest here, I will be doing things, simply because I have been 'resting' at least the last two days. I don't have the motivation to do it though :(

There is one curtain left in the spare room to bin, and I will try to get in the dead zone of the kitchen. Also, as we are now in Zone 5, I plan to sort out my 'coffee table' and the craft clutter under it. I know I am having visitors this week, so its a good time to get it done.

The polar fleece out of the car has been washed, and again there are many little piles of lint. Horrid stuff. Maybe when I tidy the 'coffee table' I will find the fabric brush.

On Thursday I took the coffee mugs I'd offered on Freecycle (with no response) to work with me and left them at the bus stop, with a note saying they were 'free to a good home, or for mosaics' - four hours later I went past and they weren't there, OR in the bin (though my note was). I loved it. I might do the same thing with the spare bowls another day.

Right, time to post this and get offline. Dealing with the 'coffee table' will entail moving the modem and power board and is likely to disconnect it.

lint

ok, the picture is sideways. But you get the idea. the first row, is all the lint that I collected in the wash cycle. From ONE load of clothes. I even let them run through two more wash cycles and kept emptying out the lint filter every few mins. Had I not done this, the lint at the top/furthest left would have been about all there was. The little smidgen next to the 5c coin is what the rinse cycle offered up.

If I was anal enough, and have electronic scales, I'd dry it out and weigh it.

I wonder how many wash cycles it would take until I had NO lint in the filter?

End of the week

...and also rubbish day.

Today, and Wednesday, I slept in until 9am! Almost unheard of. No, there were no late nights or interrupted sleep. I'm thinking I am either fighting off bugs (picked up at work), not eating decent meals, and or maybe am just not used to working (though that doesn't make sense, coz I should have slept in last week as well, yeah?) Getting up for work yesterday was an effort as well, Woke at 7 and rolled over for another 15 mins! Would have been so easy to go back to sleep.

Yesterday, being a work day, I didn't have much to do in the way of dishes. I even bought fish and chips on the way home so there were no lunch dishes, and being so full, I didn't need tea. So, sadly, I didn't wash the morning things and they are still in the sink 24 hours later. My bad.

Todays mission is to put away the laundry in your room, with a bonus 'toss five things you don't wear.' Yesterday was 'clear the night stands' and 'toss five things you don't wear.' Well, I don't have night stands, or piled up laundry to put away (its still in the washing machine - we've had rain), and I tossed a pile of clothes last zone 4. I did manage to find a few things to toss from my room though. One was a book I'm not going to read, a couple of other things and a couple of items of clothes. I could have done the trousers properly, but there isn't any room in either bin.

Looking in the trouser drawer though, I think I will get the polar fleece things out and wash them to see if I can get the fluff off, before I need to wear them. I don't want to have fluffy trousers on a day I need to go OUT! Hmm..I best get the polar fleece out of the car as well :)

Still, even with a day off, the house is ok. A day off isn't going to kill me.

My sister just posted this link about displaying kids artwork. If I had kids, I'd be tempted to try this.

och, he made a mess.