I mention my TBR pile often enough, but when I say that, i just mean the pile on my desk. In truth, I have a secondary pile, and it used to sit behind/beside me, looking like this:

Last week, I pulled out and organized my craft stuff and committed to working through them, and yesterday, I decided that that huge pile of secondary TBR’s could join that stack, and I would let them be part of that commitment. Accordingly, they are in a box over there on the craft bin, and I’ll be reading them over the next…however long it takes.

Now the shelf beside me holds my school manuals, and this pile of immediate reads/things to be reviewed.

That means my TBR pile no longer resides on my desk. That means I actually have room to work up here. Open a book. You know, desk type things. Yeah. Get on up out of the floor, now!

Umm, ya’ll. I reclaimed my kitchen! My friend Ang. and I have determined to turn over several new leaves, and it started yesterday, with our weight control efforts and today with our houses. I reclaimed the kitchen that I had scrubbed in January. Clutter had encroached again. I moved the microwave to the other side, put the coffee pot back down on the counter so I can mop up from under it more easily and left an entire counter between the stove and sink clear for mixing and general food prep.

Now, just in case you were wondering just how much mess can be caused by a little leak….this shirt was clean when I put it on this morning. Now, I am short, so anytime I reach to do something, my belly rubs. Today, it rubbed against the counter and sink, LOL! It was worth it though, because I am actually happy thinking about getting back in there and cooking. I guess that was my tackle for today. Because, hey! It’s Tuesday. I did not take before pictures, but here are after shots 🙂

Ok, I posted this picture over on Cass Knits, and then I realized it was Tuesday, and so this would make a good tackle. This is what my living room looked like at dinner time last night.

This is the stuff out of my kids’ rooms. Last night, we shoved it all out of the living room so we could at least sit, and by shoved, I mean moved it without any sense of order and tidiness. Today, my goal is to get that living room area tidy and enjoyable so that the mess is at least contained to the office area while we sort and purge.

HAHAHAHAHA, the kids started the preliminary work on this just as I was typing about how I had gotten more organized yesterday. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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Carolyn, over at A Prairie View, has gifted me with this prestigious award. Actually, I am a slacker, and she’s probably forgotten all about it, because she did it back on the 18th of February. Slacker, indeed. So, I am supposed to pass this on to 5 other bloggers, and I am having a hard time coming up with my list. I am so behind on blog reading that I don’t know what’s going on in the blogosphere anymore.

OK

Colleen, who had a very rough day and is already bouncing back
Deb, who speaks with quiet wisdom and also laughs at herself
Ann, who does that which is most difficult–she keeps on keeping on, every day
Feebeeglee, for onehundredfortyeleven little reasons and 6 big ones
Social Citizen, because I’m not judging, you. Really.

I like clean. I like organized. I like everything I need at my fingertips. Today, I have achieved this! If I could install an under chair toilet, and have food and drink delivered at regular intervals, I would never have to get up again. At least until I used up all the lipgloss in my pocket.

Plus the six lipsticks in that purse.

I know I mentioned that I was really purging and cleaning my house. Did I mention my cousin was coming each weekend to help me? It is such a help to have a fresh eye look things over. We moved here 5 years ago, and I put the table long way in the dining area, and that’s how it stayed. And I cursed it almost everyday as I tried to walk around it to do stuff, and clean around it in the back, etc. Today, she said “let’s turn it, and put the hutch…..”. Well, I said there was NO WAY we could stand to lose one end of the table, but I called everyone in to come take a seat just to prove her wrong, and Lo and BEHOLD, we fit, it fit, they fit.

And I can clean behind and around and it’s EASY. I hate to fight my house to clean it, and if you saw the place, you would know. And, yeah, we scrubbed the floor on our hands and knees to make up for my weeks of neglect.

You can see the dining area as it used to be here and here. This is what it looks like now, except I’ve re-hung the curtains. They were in the dryer when I took the picture.

I am tired. That’s not lightweight contemporary furniture. It’s solid maple that dh inherited from his parents. And the freezer was no cake walk, either. (Not that I moved that very much–I let dh do it instead, LOL). I can’t wait to throw out another metric ton of crap and create more living space. The bathroom is next!