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Stuff done, tabs opened
Sep. 3rd, 2013 03:36 pmFor what seems like the first time in a long while, I Got Stuff Done this weekend. Well, Saturday I loafed around and reacquainted my ass with the couch as I looked up Lego Indiana Jones 2 info for the Emperor, and hid out reading an 80K Derek/Stiles porn AU on my Kindle. (For the record: worth every minute.)
But Sunday! Sunday I tackled the kitchen, going through every piece of recycling and oddball containers that have stacked up on the counter due to my husband's previous disinclination. (I can't complain, considering that he handles the majority of loading and unloading the dishwasher and hand-washing the pots and pans that see regular use.) This took longer than it should have, but man! It's so good to see my counters again, and not the clutter and splatters that previously infested them.
Monday was devoted to laundry and general clothes shuffling. We got an IKEA dresser for the Emperor when he was born, and it's been nothing but a pain from then to now, with broken drawer slides resisting mending and general wear'n'tear from a careless boy. So a few months back I nabbed a giveaway dresser from a neighborhood curb and brought it home. It's been sitting in our front room since then, looming and taking up space. Yesterday I finally dumped out the clothes from the IKEA dresser and dragged it out of the room, brought the vacuum upstairs and then got out of the way while my husband gallantly wielded it, and then we lugged the new-to-us dresser up and the POC dresser down.
I will give the Emperor's school uniform policy one thing: it made it a lot easier to triage his clothes. Shorts and soon-to-be outgrown pants that were not in the approved color range got boxed up. The remaining items fit nicely into the replacement dresser. Now to find room in the basement for yet another tote of outgrown clothes. (Should we add a kids clothing swap to VVC?)
While I was at it, I also gave my own dresser the same treatment, and huzzah! My sock drawer is no longer a pit of despair and "Abandon All Hope", and the top isn't a dumping ground. (Well, it will be clear once those totes are moved as well.)
But this meant I spent almost no time on the computer browsing my kind of stuff, so I waded through the weekend's posts today, in case you were wondering about any belated comments I left. As it is, I have a bunch of tabs open right now; I think I will delegate those to another post.
But Sunday! Sunday I tackled the kitchen, going through every piece of recycling and oddball containers that have stacked up on the counter due to my husband's previous disinclination. (I can't complain, considering that he handles the majority of loading and unloading the dishwasher and hand-washing the pots and pans that see regular use.) This took longer than it should have, but man! It's so good to see my counters again, and not the clutter and splatters that previously infested them.
Monday was devoted to laundry and general clothes shuffling. We got an IKEA dresser for the Emperor when he was born, and it's been nothing but a pain from then to now, with broken drawer slides resisting mending and general wear'n'tear from a careless boy. So a few months back I nabbed a giveaway dresser from a neighborhood curb and brought it home. It's been sitting in our front room since then, looming and taking up space. Yesterday I finally dumped out the clothes from the IKEA dresser and dragged it out of the room, brought the vacuum upstairs and then got out of the way while my husband gallantly wielded it, and then we lugged the new-to-us dresser up and the POC dresser down.
I will give the Emperor's school uniform policy one thing: it made it a lot easier to triage his clothes. Shorts and soon-to-be outgrown pants that were not in the approved color range got boxed up. The remaining items fit nicely into the replacement dresser. Now to find room in the basement for yet another tote of outgrown clothes. (Should we add a kids clothing swap to VVC?)
While I was at it, I also gave my own dresser the same treatment, and huzzah! My sock drawer is no longer a pit of despair and "Abandon All Hope", and the top isn't a dumping ground. (Well, it will be clear once those totes are moved as well.)
But this meant I spent almost no time on the computer browsing my kind of stuff, so I waded through the weekend's posts today, in case you were wondering about any belated comments I left. As it is, I have a bunch of tabs open right now; I think I will delegate those to another post.
