My October 20th 2013 resolution

Today is cleanup day, and when I say cleanup day this time, I really mean cleanup day.  We are never home long enough to really get to it, and besides not quite being moved in, we just haven’t been picking up after ourselves.  I’ll admit it, it has been worse than a pig sty and I’ve been embarrassed every time I come home and horrified at the thought that someone might come over.  So, today, we are going nowhere.  The T.V. is now off until everything is cleaned up.  I have set my alarm to go off every hour, so we have an hour of cleaning and an hour off.  I am using my hour off to write, and then maybe read a little.

In my hour (actually it was about 15 minutes before I remembered to set the time so really about an hour and fifteen minutes) I have managed to find floor over a good section of the living room.  In my personal little corner it was mostly trash that had accumulated because I hadn’t done anything with Barbara’s papers from school, mail, etc., etc.,etc.  There was a nice group of stuff in containers hiding the seriousness of it from me, and those have all been relocated to keep that from happening again.

Barbara Ann, being a very creative nine year old has this way of  turning garbage into treasures that trash up the house as they accumulate and then get destroyed.  One of her favorite items to create with is empty boxes.  We are extremely challenged there since we have so many empty boxes around from moving.  The box creations end up crushed on the floor and intermixed with all the creations from scraps of stuff from here and there, not to mention the mountains of drawings this kid creates.  I of course don’t help since I want to save every drawing she does, so I really am working on not creating a monster.

Once I get all the trash up and the floor swept, I’ll be steam cleaning it since I have one of those handy dandy steam mops.  I am not going to bother to wait until New Years to make a resolution; I’m making my October 20^th 2013 resolution today.  What is cleaned up now will stay cleaned up, what is yet to be cleaned up will not be made worse, and I am never letting this happen again. 

There are a lot of things I am working on to better myself as a person, and this is one of them.  Housekeeping has never been my thing, and it’s one thing to let things go a bit and have dirty dishes in the sink and a dish washer that needs to be unloaded and re-loaded.  It’s another to let things go like this and live like a slob.  So, I’ll be heading back to work in about twelve more minutes or less, and taking yet another step towards the better, new and improved, retooled me.