Passed out a load, started a load, sorted a couple of loads for washing. seven shelves, behind the couch, under the couch and one curling iron. Sounds like the 12 days of Christmas, kinda, doesn’t it?

I think that’s all I have time for today, though.

This seems as good a blog as any, so here we go: My first Tackle It Tuesday project. You will note in the after picture that the dishpan of “stuff” has been replaced with a knitting basket. All is now right in my world 🙂

If you are not reading this blog via feed, you had a surprise this morning, didn’t you? I switched to this theme late last night. I still have quite a bit of work I want to do on the sidebars and such, but it was time to give my taste for pink some phentermine. I do love pink, but…….sometimes I just need a change 🙂 It was originally a two column theme, so you can see I’ve done a little work on it already.

So, why was I switching themes late Sunday night? And why isn’t it finished?? Well, I’d been thinking about changing for most of last week, but I was incredibly busy. With the mopping and sopping, you know. Then on Thursday, I started at the door that opens into the kitchen, and I cleaned. Appliances moved, cabinets emptied, vacuum cleaner on the cabinets so I could do the tops. That kind of cleaning. And folks, my kitchen is spacious–about 26×13. When I sat down last night, exhausted, I decided to look at themes, and one thing led to another, and here it is. This morning, I got up and I finished the last of the kitchen, so I haven’t had time to finish it up yet. I’ll be working on the tweaking this week as I have time.

Let me know what you think!

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So, the plumber came. And I’ve been cleaning since he left. I’d been really unmotivated to do any cleaning while the water was seeping out from the walls, but now that we’re dry (well, sorta dry, things are still pretty wet under the surface), I’m back on it. Today I cleaned the cabinet above the frig, de-iced and cleaned the frig freezer, then did the frig itself, including the grill underneath. No, I mean really cleaned it. And I had to heat the water on the stove to do so. No hot water heater, see. I am beat. If I were a rechargeable battery, I’d plug myself in to the nearest outlet.

I am also incredibly dirty and I really want to wash my hair. I feel like a pioneer, only with inside toilets.

Ya’ll, I told you Monday that I had leaks, and I had been mopping them up. Yesterday and today were more of the same, only faster, better, and much improved from the leak’s point of view. From mine, not so much. I am now at the point where I am having to wash and dry laundry just do I can sop up water, and running the washer causes the puddles to grow to the point that it takes most of the load of towels to sop it back up. The plumber will be here tomorrow. I hope when everything dries out that I don’t need to shop for any North Carolina furniture, but I am pretty sure I’ll need a new floor in the kitchen.

I am finally caught up with what I had planned to do in the house this week. Well, close enough. I had hoped to get the main rooms tackled, but that did not happen. Still two bathrooms and 3 bedrooms are not bad for a week’s work when you consider I washed every piece of clothing that 6 children own. I coulda been done a little earlier if I had rolled out a couple of exercise mats and just slept in front of the machines, but I figured given my tendencies to insomnia and my gimpy hip, I might better sleep in the bed.

So! Now it’s time to turn my attention back to some semblance of regular life, including !tada! blogging. I’ve missed it! I know I’ve posted some, but not nearly what I wanted to. Cleaning gives you plenty of time to think of things to say, but doesn’t leave nearly enough time to say them, LOL!