This weekend, I cleaned my house. Big deal, right?
Well, sort of. This was a hardcore cleaning. I emptied all the cabinets and scrubbed them and put in new shelf liner. I have an SUV full -- and I mean, FULL -- of stuff to take to the Salvation Army. I gave away two fairly large pieces of furniture.
It feels good.
There are, of course, the usual problems with spring cleaning -- its ephemeral nature, for one thing. I'll come home tonight to find mud tracked all over the floors that are sparkling right now. Another problem: I have no more stall tactics left and it is time to tackle the outdoor maintenance -- also incredibly ephemeral in nature, since flowers wilt and plants die and I swear to god those leaves NEVER stop falling all year long.
Will you castigate me as a bad parent if I admit that I still haven't put up the screen on the kid's trampoline? I mean, he hasn't fallen off. No harm there, right?
I have to power-wash and waterproof our deck, steps, and some other wooden yard fixtures. I have gazillions of flowers I want to plant. (Which also means buying them.) Brush piles to move. Landscapers to call because I absolutely can not fathom how to cut down the giant tree next to our garage without losing power lines or roof or driveway asphalt or some such. Etc. etc.
And that list just came from stumping around the yard for 15 minutes last week. Lord knows what else I'll find that NEEDS immediate attention when I actually start delving into this stuff.
Even worse was that spring cleaning uncovered all my half-completed, long-forgotten indoor projects. Right now I have more than 3 dozen recipes to transfer to my cooking blog. I have several stories waiting to be posted on my genealogy blog. I still haven't finished editing the second revision of the second chapter of the book my dad's writing. I have a half-knitted scarf and a 1/4-completed baby blanket I need to finish crocheting before the baby graduates from medical school.
And don't even get me started on all the stuff in my purse.
A half-hour a day on each of those -- would probably mean losing 2.5 hours of sleep. Sigh. Maybe the best idea is to start all that after a little nap?
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