After a tortuous several weeks at work, i decided to take a few days off. I wanted to spring clean and knew i had to strike while the iron was hot.
Instead of taking a whole week off, which i wanted, i settled for three days. Client ran late with some stuff i needed to do my part. sigh.
I totally forgot Wednesday was Ash Wednesday, and woke up Wednesday morning with a headache and felt grumpy. I looked outside, and it was snowing. It is NOT supposed to snow when i'm spring cleaning.
I moped most of the day. I felt listless and did a few things. I attended my strength training class and found i was just really tired so i did what i could and felt better afterwards.
I woke up this morning a bit sore from my class but brillant sunshine streamed through. It was so nice to see it, even though it was very cold again this morning (3°F/-16°C). And i puttered hither and yon around the house. I could do with an entire week off to do a proper spring cleaning, but there's not much point to washing the walls in my office where the coal stove is, as i still need the coal stove to be fired up.
The kitchen, guest room, and bathrooms are all much cleaner. Sunroom is decluttered. A noisome pile in my bedroom has been properly sorted. I have started on the taxes.
I hope tomorrow i can clean my bedroom, the other upstairs bedroom, the living room and make an inroad in my office. I also want to go through my clothes and shoes. I have too many of both and need to give away what i'm not wearing or shall never wear. I also found out my two favorite pairs of jeans are now too big for me. I'm glad and sad, as i really liked them. Oh well, they can go on to make someone else happy who's a bit larger than i am.
In other news, i won a drawing! It's for a restaurant gift certificate, i get to pick from a list of which restaurant(s) i want. There's one on the list i've enjoyed going to, and one i may want to try, so getting a certficate for each would be nice.
I haven't given anything up for Lent, although i've had no sugar so far, and i don't think i swore all day. So, sugar and swearing can be contenders. I think i ought to stick for the cleaning thing, too; heck, if i did something every day for all of Lent, the house may get a proper spring cleaning after all.
In most cases I imagine that people would find that their jeans are too SMALL, so finding the opposite must be a real bonus.
ReplyDeleteIt was certainly a surprise to me, Cro. I've lost a couple pounds, but i didn't think it would make such a difference.
DeleteI like the phrase, 'noisome pile'. I have a few in my bedroom too, made all the more so by maturing in bin-liners as they wait for me to remember them. They have their own way of reminding me.
ReplyDeleteI have more than just the one, but as that was the most noisome, it got my attention first. Ideally, the others will not be able to outlast this cleaning surge i have.
DeleteI don't give up anything for Lent. I've already given up so much in life. When you are done with your spring cleaning, my house awaits you.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
Well, i swore and did have some sugar, after all, but perhaps i can simply make a decision to clean every day during Lent. We're supposed to get loads of snow on Wednesday, if the computer models are correct, so if i take all of Lent to get the spring cleaning done, that's all right.
DeleteMy Sisters are all very devout Catholics, so when they were in town today, I found out that ALL of them had given up sweets. Kind of nice to sit there in a restaurant and eat my cheesecake while they all watched.....
ReplyDeleteHeh-heh, i'd be busily laughing at my table if i saw that. When i gave up sweets, it was hard because they'd become a habit. Not an engrained as swearing, for the year i tried giving that up, i broke it. Every day during Lent. EVERY DAY. I tacked on another 40 days after Easter to try again and was more successful.
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