Happy Monday!!

OMG could you hear me squee when I saw I had comments?! Hahahaha! Hope you are all having a great Monday!

Menu planning for today is... not so much. There are several things I didn't make last week that I'll be making this week, including teriyaki chicken burgers tonight. Tomorrow night will be curry chicken salad. Wednesday will probably be honey mustard lime chicken in the crockpot. Thursday is leftovers, and I'll have to decide on the rest of the week on Friday (payday).

And now, for the weekend...

The blinds didn't get cleaned, and the dog crate didn't get touched, but still, much was accomplished. The nieces tackled some vacuuming and dusting, and they did a bit of cleaning in the bathroom. My sis finally cleaned the rest of the bathroom, as I was putting things away in my NEWLY REARRANGED BEDROOM (yippee!!). And, if you'll excuse the mess, I have some "almost before" and "almost after" photos for you. I say "almost before" because we were sliding things around when I remembered, and "almost after" because I did a few more things on Sunday after these pics were taken.

Before:

To the right of the bookshelf is where the desk *was* before I started moving and remembered to take pics. From the left is my TV, file cabinet, bookshelf, and where the desk was. The ottomon I'm getting rid of.

Desk, end table and bed, with bench on the end. The items on the bed are from my sisters theory that anything on the floor when a rearrange starts goes on the bed, so basically you're looking at the dog's bed and recipes on my bed. Ugh.

I'm getting more mortified by the second. :) Bed to the left, end table and dead in front is my chest with dried flowers on it.

After:

Left is my chest, file cabinet, and TV. Ignore the two grocery bags filled with items to give to charity. :)

TV, desk and bed up front, with my niece and dog relaxing. :)

I moved out the book shelf (it's in the spare room) and replaced it with a chair. My mission is to keep it from being a catch all. The time on the clock isn't correct, BTW. :)

This week? THE DINING ROOM! I didn't get the dog cage collasped and stored, but hopefully I'll still get to that.

Still on track...

Revision to the weekend and next week's goal

Last night after I got home, my darling sister called to say that she and my nieces were coming in for the weekend. Right now my sister isn't living in the best situation in the world, so she and the nieces seem to be at my place a lot. I informed her that we would all be cleaning all weekend. She said that was fine and they couldn't wait to help.

Also, yesterday I had a pretty horrible day at work. I realized how bad it was when something on TV made me cry, and I *never* cry. So I decided to take the night off. I washed dishes and put away laundry, but that was about it. So tonight I'll fluff the sheers, and this weekend I'll clean the blinds. My oldest niece "Honey Bunny" will be in charge of detail vacuuming and dusting. My youngest niece "Punkin Spice" will be in charge of the bathroom (give her a spray bottle and a scrub brush and she's a happy girl, so she's going to be on grout detail). My sis and I will rearrange my bedroom, and then we'll tackle the living room. We're also going to put the dog crate into the attic and finish decluttering the spare room (much easier since she'll be here because most of it is hers).

Next week's goal is the dining room: rearrange, dust, clean, declutter, the whole nine yards. I'll have before pictures on Monday.

In the beginning...

Recently, I've started following several blogs; many of whom have readers who also blog. I felt a little left out, but I didn't think I had anything to blog about.

Mix well with the feeling that I was really starting to get my you-know-what together, and I wanted to tell someone, but it seemed no one cared.

Bake at 325 and here's what you have: me with a blog.

So, here I go. Getting on track and not looking back.