Streamlining my Life

Haha....

no... actually I'm not joking.  I have swirling, trollopping thoughtsies in my head, like, constantly - allllll about how I could be more efficient.

I am in love with the idea of efficiency. Like, head over heals.

I have laundry ideas.

My current plan is epically bad.  I have two laundry baskets in my closet that are a dump all for all things dirty.  When both are stacked to overflowing, I dump them out on the living room floor and go through each article looking for stains to hit with my trusty Shout.  I then do a laundry day marathon of about 8 loads (my baskets are big! and when I say overflowing, I mean... yeah).  The loads are *supposed* to be folded as they come out of the dryer, but that usually only happens to about half of them.  The other half become super wrinkly, and do eventually get put away....

Here's my idea:
I want bins that I keep in the laundry room (like, stackable laundry baskets) for each kind of load I do: whites, colors, darks, sheets & towels.  My plan is that at the end of the day, as I come down the stairs with the girls dirty clothes, I'd take them all the way downstairs and immediately hit any stained spots with a spray&wash thing.  When a bin is full, in the wash it goes.  Along with that, I'll make a reminder for the kitchen, saying there's a load in the wash - so I don't forget and leave it there for days to get stanky.  I can handle doing one load every few days-ish.  It's the overwhelming pile I hate.

Speaking of overwhelming piles: my dishes.
I don't have a dishwasher.  I do have two young daughters who LOVE to splash the suds around, but that just gets my rug wet.  I *try,* in a meh-not really kind of way to do the dishes after each meal.  Yeah.  Usually, every night after the kids are in bed, I go downstairs to fend off the mess monster and prune up my dried out hands.  I think I am going to stop *trying* to do the dishes after each meal, and just *do* them.  Kinda sounds like a lame-o plan, but, man, what else can you think of?

OK, and my final idea to share for the day: recess.  Yep.  I want a scheduled time each day, maybe two, where the girls and I have recess.  We go outside if it is at all possible for at least 20 minutes... we have adventures ... outside.  I don't mean just getting out of the house to go somewhere, I mean really playing outside.  Maybe I'll even lose this holiday weight! Ha!  We definitely don't get outside enough.

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I have some old pics I hope to post tomorrow of Zaya, but they're from earlier this month.  She's a new woman now, cut two of her four canines on Christmas day, and speaking in sentences! Real sentences! That I can *almost* understand!! Yeah.  She's really growing up.

Also, yes, we had a fabulous Christmas.  It was a wonderful day spent enjoying our little family and the lack of snow.  We each got some fun gifts, but the best part was just having a day with no plans, no places we had to go... we changed back into PJs after church and just enjoyed each other.  We didn't even fight :D haha  I hope you had a wonderful Christmas too!

This is why it's a good idea to wait...

First, you should know today hasn't gone well for me. I have been randomly struck by cat allergies after second hand exposure yesterday and the effects have had me sneezing ALL day. My nose is raw and ready to fall off. Also, I attempted to reconcile a broken relationship with someone who once was a close friend, but suddenly cut all ties with me 8 years ago. I think of her often, and for some reason thought today might be a good day to tell her I miss her friendship. ((I have absolutely no idea why she stopped speaking to me in the first place. A few years ago we ran into each other at a mutual friend's wedding and talked the whole time like the old friends we are... but come to find out, she was just being friendly because she didn't want to make a scene at the wedding... when I tried to contact her afterwards, she resumed shunning me.)) I sent her a friend request on FB today, along with the simple message, "I sure do miss our friendship." She responded by reporting me to FB, and I got a hand slap and a warning that if that ever happened again my account would be suspended. ((apparently, if you friend request someone you don't know on FB, that's a big no-no.)) Also, extra whiny kids allllllll day, and lots of mishaps during dinner, so that I didn't get to sit down and eat two bites in a row, let alone warm ones. Geesh. I'm actually looking forward to washing dishes and folding laundry and going to bed. But, I kinda wish there was some Rum in the cupboard above the fridge. Glad there isn't.

and then I heard this song. I cried when I heard it. Maybe the exhaustion of everything today put my emotions at the surface, or maybe they're always there...

... and not to say that I am not completely content with my relationship with The Huz... it's just that he was not my first love, you know? The feelings crooned about in this song are the ones you experience the first time you love. When you have your whole heart to give to someone...

Guard your heart, ladies. Don't play with our hearts, guys. It is possible to have this kind of fire for a lifetime, if you do it right.

this song is better if you change the words, "She's the one" to "He's the one," and "a girl" to "the LORD" :D