msbelle, have you seen the latest Geico commercial? [link]

Glad to know I'm not the only person trying to be all organizey today. Dan comes back at 9:15, and so far i have collected ALL the MANY MANY cups from around the house, washed all the dishes (except the ones lolling about in my car), picked up all the toys in the living room, dining room and bathroom (hand to god, 22 tiny toys go in with him in the tub, including a huge Godzilla, but it makes M happy, so whatev.)

The ELEVEN DAMNED BOXES full of Lego and K'Nex parts and toys that were in the living room are now in D's studio, which is a toysplosion, which D gets to deal with, kthx.

I also cleaned the grotty microwave of hot dogsplosions, cleaned all the kitchen counters, changed the cat box, took out all the upstairs trash, took out three bags of garage sale trash. All while posting an ad for tutoring/babysitting/petsitting/errand running services, saving teaching jobs, and creating a Craigslist ad for various stuff in English and Spanish. I still need to go take photos and note all of the brand names, but the majority of the text is done.

The only other things I really, really have to do today is sweep the living room and change the sheets on the bed.

Whew.

Oh, also: WE ARE REFINANCED ON THE HOUSE as of Friday. So, hopefully, things on that front are all taken care of. We are broke like whoa, cause my summer gig's over, but we can haz house.

Thing is, all the trim and doors and everything in the entire damned house are like this. Windows, everything. It is actually a huge pain in the ass, and will be a huge amount of work to fix. Some people should not be allowed to paint things.

My house is the same. Most of the paint sticks, but you can see those alligator patterns in places, and paint is chipping off doors and trim, but the worst is the kitchen cupboards, where paint is constanly flaking off into my plates and cups. I thought of trying to save the cupboards if I ever redo the kitchen, but the thought of stripping those cupboards makes me go gaaaah!

I tried to be organized today. I emptied all three shelves of my spice/baking cabinet. Two shelves worth are back in place but all my spices are still on the counter. I should put them back. I should also get up and cook something. Eventually.

We had BBQ last night, and had a shitton of ribs left over, so I am nibbling on those. NOM NOM NOM.

I was not organized today. So there! Did get some laundry done and went swimming with the kids, which in my world counts as a good day. Made that banana ice cream someone linked too about a week ago. Everyone but Franny thought it was yummy, but she was also eating some left over chocolate/vanilla frogurt swirl, so it might have suffered a bit by comparison.

I should make dinner, or something. I'm not sure I have the energy. I think I've got some TJ's frozen vegetable curry with rice. I could microwave that. That still requires the energy to get off the couch and into the kitchen and unwrap the food.

Jezebel just posted this vintage commercial. They are twelve and I am twelve, but gosh this made me laugh

You, Your Friends, and Your Johnson [link]

I was not organized today. I whacked 20% of the weeds that are growing between my driveway and the fence (this is a very small portion of al the weeds that need whacking in my yard, but I can't be precise about the total weed population) before the belt snapped again (this is belt #3 or 4). Then I ordered a new Grass Hog.

After careful consideration, I have decided that I like Jon Stewart's beard. Though not the fluff.

Yay house, Erin! Both the refinancing and the decluttering.

I unpacked 4 more boxes! and sealed up another bag of winter clothes. also 2 loads of laundry. I threw down the gauntlet with mac wrt him doing NOTHING around the house. He starts helping or I do nothing for him. He got himself dinner. We'll see how bedtime goes.

Suzi reminds me that I am ready for the green top Schilling or McCormick spice jars if anyone did in fact find any. email me and I will get you the address and postage costs.