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April 4th, 2007 at 04:20 am

Today was one of those days where you have a million things to accomplish and are lucky if you even accomplish one. I guess I count myself fortunate that I actually accomplished three things. Even if one of those things was simply emptying the dishwasher. Hey, it was on the list.

We also mostly finished up in Rose's room and took a bunch more stuff to storage as FIL was kind enough to bring his truck out and run DH in with the load. I've been buried in laundry from Rose's room. I don't even know what was dirty and what was clean and never put away. But she knows if I find one thing on the floor its confiscated. She has a her own laundry hamper and a closet she can easily hang things up in, plus a dresser with easy slide drawers. NO excuses whatsoever. If its on the floor it is gone!

I think its going to take me a couple of days to get caught up on laundry, sort out what is too small and needs to be handed down to her older cousin, who she is a head taller than, and what needs to be put away properly. Sigh. I swear I had just done this six months ago and it was nowhere near as bad. How one kid could be so messy is beyond me. I did take away her guitar for a month because I found it out of its case and on the floor.

I don't get where the messy gene is coming from. Even Tobias keeps his room neat most of the time and he's only seven. I think she has a packrat tendancy, maybe got that from MIL and FIL. I dunno.

Aside from that I did manage to get 2 book pages written today and will work on it some more tonight and 3 the day before. I also read book 2 of the Withern Rise trilogy, "Small Eternities" by Michael Lawrence and started the 3rd one, "The Underwood See." I liked the first book and so far the third book more than the second, the second was more of a bridge piece. Necessary, but the less exciting part of the story. Very interested to see how it will turn out.

Didn't really do anything in the financial arena other than balance the checkbook and it actually balanced, always a good. Okay, I guess I did get more than three things accomplished today. But the list still doesn't seem any shorter.

Spent some time online going over stuff with my friend I will be meeting in California at month's end. We are plotting our vacation to waste the least amount of time possible.

I guess that's about it, then.

3 Responses to “Odds and Ends”

  1. shadon Says:
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    LOL I feel your pain. My 11 yo DD2 is the same. Completely messy. I have to thoroughly clean out her room, wardrobe, drawers, under bed every month or it gets crazy out of control.

    On the other hand my DD1 (14yo) is pretty neat. I remember her telling me off once when she was 5 because I didn't put her underwear away neatly enough in her drawer. She even went to it and rearranged it in front of me Rolleyes Smile

  2. fairy74 Says:
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    Don't worry too much about the messy gene, I was terrible about that until my mid-20's and then suddenly I got hyper organized and had to have everything super clean....

  3. homebody Says:
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    Gee Fairy does that mean there is hope for MD (age 26). My 27 and 19 year old's are both pretty neat (and were not necessarily at home), but MD is awful... I didn't train her well enough and she is turning out just like me, becoming overwhelmed easily and I have been working on it for many years. Luckily she doesn't take offense when I visit and start cleaning and organizing, she likes it.

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