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Day 3 – 29 to go

22 Jan

Day 3 was spent getting ready to have friends over for game night that evening.  I ran around cleaning and cooking from 10 AM until 6 PM so my exercise just didn’t happen. :(   Unless of course you consider running home from the grocery store which is only a 4 minute walk so then that put my running at approximately 2 minutes.  Talk about breaking a sweat.

Of course some of my food choices weren’t the best, but what’s a girl to do when she’s at a party filled with tasty treats and sweets?  Let’s hope I can make this goal.   29 days to go!!

FOODS:
*Coffee & a splash of Half & Half*1/4 Cup of Black Beans seasoned with chopped onion, cumin and black pepper*1 Cup of Peas and Carrots*Roasted Vegetable Panini*3 Feta and Spinach Squares*A couple of Pita Chips*A little bit of Fruit (kiwi, banana & orange)*3 vegan Chocolate Truffles*4 Large Marshmallows dipped in Chocolate Sauce*

EXERCISE:

*Nada darn thing*

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Hop Aboard the Crazy Train

19 Jan

I was so tired last night, but couldn’t fall asleep. My mind was doing laps in an Olympic sized pool.
If you didn’t already know, I don’t handle stress well. I learned we’re having visitors in two weeks. While I LOVE having guests, I start to think about how I need to get my house together, make plans for meals, clean, arrange work off, etc. It becomes a lot for my pea brain. I go through this same panic each and every time. You’d think I’d have it down by now. But I don’t. So I just accept that I’m going to freak out and panic and complain while trying to clean 1,600 things at once. Then our guests will arrive and it will be fine and we’ll have fun and I’ll think, “Why did I have a melt down?”. Then I’ll remember it’s because I’m deranged.

Martha, get over to my house and make it acceptable. #Thankyouverymuch.

Spring Cleaning

21 Apr

My friend, Martha Stewart told me about a great, easy way to store one’s winter sweaters.  First I found all of our sweaters.  Then I folded them with a folding board, except it wasn’t a folding board it was a book.  Anyway, you get the idea.  If you never worked at the Gap, you can learn to fold like a pro using this tutorial.  Complete side note…that is an artificial pine Christmas wreath at the top of the picture.  I managed to also put away my Christmas stuff as part of my spring cleaning. 

Then I neatly packed the stacked, folded sweaters in a  Hefty X-Large Storage Bag. 

Up in the closet they go until next January when it gets cold again.

The Maintenance Man Returns

28 Mar

Dear Maintenance Man,

Thanks for getting the lid that was causing the dishwasher to not work out of the way.  I promise I didn’t kick or curse at the dishwasher when it wouldn’t latch shut and thus not run last night.  I also didn’t call it a “piece of crap”.

Sorry the dishes stunk.  As you know, the dishwasher was broken.

Your’s truly,

Rizzle

Guess who’ll be cleaning tonight?

1 Mar

Dear Resident,

As part of our preventative maintenance initiative, a member of our maintenance staff will enter you apartment this Wednesday, March 2nd. They will inspect your AC filters, your plumbing system, your doors, locks, windows and fire extinguishers to make sure they are in working order. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our office at 555.555.5555.

Sincerely,

Management

Cake Coming Out of My Ears

18 Mar

Saturday my niece with knotty hair turns 3!  She’s having a Little Mermaid themed birthday party.  I’m making her cake and dozens (6 dozen to be exact) of cupcakes.  My sister, AKA Sophia’s mom, called me Monday morning to tell me that Sophia has been dreaming of her birthday cake.  It is to have pink frosting and stripes.  I will accommodate the pink frosting, but there won’t be stripes unforunately.   Hopefully the Ariel figurine on top will be sufficient.

After this 3 year old party, we’re off to another party.  We have a friend, grandparents, a brother in law/brother,  and a sister/sister in law coming to town this weekend all for different events all from different parts of the country.  Needless to say, it’s going to be a very, very busy weekend starting tonight when I begin to clean the guest bathroom and the rest of the house. 

Wish me luck!

Rizzle

Do You Have One of These Too?

4 Sep

Do you have a person in your home that leaves it’s shoes on the floor in the middle of the dining room? It’s a miracle that I have not lost a toe or an ankle tripping over these monsters.

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Do you have a person in your home that takes off it’s shirt when it gets home and leaves it on the stairs?
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Do you have a person in your home that leaves it’s car keys in a place that he will not remember where they are the next day?
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Do you have a person in your home that drinks 10 bottles of water a day and fails to put the empty bottles in the recycling bin?
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Do you have a person in your home that is so messy you want to scream?!

Lazy Sunday

1 Mar

Today is one of those lazy Sunday’s: stay in bed until 10 AM, make hot chocolate and an English muffin for breakfast. Eat another English muffin while perusing the Internet for interesting Hollywood gossip. Open the door to the garage and admire the neatly organized garage that required a trip to the dump, the Goodwill and to family members returning their borrowed tennis balls, table saws and lawn chairs. Go back to the Internet and skip from blog to blog because nobody has updated since last week. Open the door to the garage again and notice that it even smells fresh in there. Look down at my shabby slippers and decide it’s time to shower now that it is 1:05 PM.

…Going to shower and put on a fresh pair of pajamas.

Happy Lazy Sunday!

Rizzle

The Art of Making a List

19 Sep

Do you ever just need to make a list of all the things going through your mind that you know you need to accomplish on any given day? That’s me. Today. I have a list somewhere on my desk, a list in my head and a list in the car that I scribbled on while at a stop light this morning. Now I’m just going to make my list on my blog because I can.

I actually have a system for my lists. Let me divulge. First jot down everything and anything that is on your mind to accomplish. Second, prioritize. Third, get going on your list. Forth, scratch or check the tasks as you finish them. Fifth pat yourself on the back for finishing your list. If you don’t finish your list, that’s okay. I once had a very wise boss who told me, “whatever you don’t finish today will be there tomorrow”. I think this in my head all the time. It really helps to ease the burden and guilt from not finishing something, and at the same time reminds me I can do it tomorrow, or the next day, or the next day.

1. The Brainstorm Phase.

Today:
Fold laundry
Start a new load of laundry
Wash car
Do dishes
Sweep/mop floors
Workout at lunch
Get mail
Manicure and Pedicure

2. Prioritize from most urgent to least urgent.

In this case the dishes aren’t all that urgent. They are my least favorite chore, er um, task I mean. So I’m going to just get them out of the way.

1.Do dishes
2.Start a new load of laundry
3.Fold laundry
4.Sweep/mop floors
5.Workout at lunch
6.Get mail
7.Wash car
8.Manicure and Pedicure

3. Begin with task 1. Pardon me, while I go do the dishes. Be right back.

4. Check mark off tasks as they are completed.

We have a problem here because there is not an option for me to “strikethrough” item number 1 on my list. Stupid Blogger doesn’t have that capability. Or I just know how to do it. Now I need to add another task to my list: figure out how to “strikethrough” words on Blogger. Please pretend item 1 below has a big line through it or a fancy check mark next to it.

1. Do dishes
2. Start a new load of laundry
3. Fold laundry
4. Sweep/mop floors
5. Workout at lunch
6. Get mail
7. Wash car
8. Manicure and Pedicure

5. Kudos to you for finishing your list!

I still have many tasks to mark as completed. Wish me luck! I have a busy day ahead of me.

Rizzle

Spring cleaning in the summer

28 Jul

I had a handful of boxes of old stuff from my parent’s house. These boxes had to be cleared out. So I armed myself with a giant black garbage bag and went to town. There were old lip glosses and stinky perfumes amidst the junk. I found Michael Jackson’s Thriller CD which I can’t wait to download to my iPod. I found a Nordstrom gift card and I crossed my fingers it had at least $100 bucks on it. I was so disappointed when the automated service told me “there is no balance on this card at this time”. I even called back and re-entered the gift card number just in case I had made a mistake the first time. So I tossed the gift card in the garbage bag. I did hit the jackpot with a Starbucks gift card I found! 7 whole dollars and 50 cents on that one!! WOOT WOOT!!
I also found some pretty cool glasses! Don’t you think these are cute?

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