time!

Now unlike money, I like to spend time! 

For example, this weekend.

I thought I was having a lazy weekend. But this afternoon I looked at my BodyMedia thing that records my every action, and yesterday I took over 12,000 steps. That's like 6 miles. I'm averaging 7000-ish steps a day. That's only about 21 miles this week, and it's only every step I took, it's not like I was out walking for fitness, but wow. Not lazy.

But like I said, I thought, as I was polishing a sliver butter dish instead of unpacking boxes, wow this hasn't been a very accomplished weekend. My goal yesterday was 2 boxes, but I got to where I just thought I'd be happy to get a shower before work, I am serious, I polished silver instead of doing important stuff like unpacking. At work I ran the entire time I was there and I was soooo tired and my eyes were burning. I think if I feel physically crappy, then I get the impression things are crappy. 

Today on the other hand, I had a coffee at around 11 which lasted me all day. I had about 1/4 of the Sumatra from the Barnes & Noble Cafe, black with sugar, and I was awesome, I got so much done!. Then I had more of it after work and got home and did all kinds of stuff. I unpacked four or five boxes and so I guess that averages out 2.5 per day over the weekend. Ha ha. Then my friend called and we went to the apartment and she is a painter. She helped me go through the rooms and touch up the paint. The landlord asked me the other day if I wanted to just touch up the paint or if I was in the mood to paint the whole wall. What wall? I was wondering. I knew there were a lot of spots on the woodwork where the 30+ years/coats of paint had chipped away down to the wood. So I called her up. She said she would help me clean it but to be honest, in the interest of making it easy for her to paint it instead of wasting her paintable time helping to clean, I tried to clean it myself before she ever showed up. I'm super at cleaning. She saw it when I first moved in, so really we both know it is cleaner and better now than it was.

Tonight I'm still abuzz.  I do not like the way I have the pots and pans at all, so I want to take them all out and figure out the best way for them to co-exist.

I have all the tiny little gadgety appliances on a set of wire shelves and I need to brainstorm where to put them. Then the goofy sandwich heating bread sealer thing, I think I could donate that. I think really, who would want it? But it is nicer than the stuff I see at Goodwill. They have some seriously gross stuff.
 I have a creepy dungeon storage in the basement which currently is nothing, because I will bleach and seal it first. The boys were talking about locking eachother in there. Then there is another storage right next to the dungeon, which is less creepy, and it has some Christmas crappity crap, and some paint cans on the shelves. Then there's the crafty shelving. Should I put the rest of the Christmas boxes (which are currently in the crafty shelving area,) in with the cans of paint? I am not too attached to my Christmas stuff. I am thinking ugh. It is none too special. I have a couple of wreaths the boys made which are cool. But I think it isn't too much of a risk. Nothing is going to happen in that storage, it doesn't smell musty and I keep the door open for ventilation. I think that's the ticket.

I have been organizing my cabinets. Some of them are very high up!

I don't want to put the crock pot or the ice cream maker up there, and I don't think they'd fit up there anyway. I have all types of wine glasses and such in the ones across from these.

So really, I need some more of these things, for these cabinets.
I could get them for the top cabinets and keep the flour, sugar, other types of bags in them, and they're easy to grab down.

I also need a solution for the linen closet. I do not know how many towels a human needs. I have way too many. I have piles of wash cloths of the very softest fluffiest varieties, from Linens N Things clearance. So recently I had the job of getting the boxes which housed them out from under the kids' bed, dragging them to this house, folding them all up, jamming them into this closet, and realizing, that takes up too much room!

Then I have some baskets which hold my various everyday supplies for doing hair and makeup. They are marginally attractive and looked pretty good in my apartment bathroom, where I kept them out in the open. However, they take up too much space in the linen closet.  I think looking at it this way will help me figure this out. I think I need the boxes condensed, and some of the extra supplies put away downstairs. I bought 4 more of those little boxes like I have on the top shelf.

I think what I could do is, get two more white baskets like I have on the floor on the bottom and put the hair crap in there. Ooh I could get those huge stacking bins! I need measurements!!! 

Also, never ever buy hair crap ever again. I don't even use it! I use shampoo, conditioner, and I sometimes put in that Silk hair treatment, and usually I use the Chi stuff in the red container, which you squirt in your hand and it is supposed to be for use with heated straighteners, but I just use it to smooth out the ends which tend to be frizzish instead of wavy.  It dries to a nice non-crisp yet still defined finish. I think I need stacking boxes for the floor. What else could go down there? I don't like having things on the floor. I hate to even bend that far down... what happened to me that I'm this lazy? Could massive amounts of toilet paper go on the floor? And paper towels? They stay wrapped up. Then on the next shelf up, I could put the folded sheets and hopefully blankets would fit too. I really don't have that many sheets, I have a zillion pillow cases because I change them more frequently. Then I just wash the sheets and put them back on the bed.

So the third shelf from the bottom, I think I could put washcloths in one basket, hand towels in another basket (who cares about those anyway? nobody but me gets hand towels out, I'm serious.) and then regular towels could pile up behind and to the center between the two baskets. Nobody even likes my big fluffy washcloths. (See that pile of them, in the picture to the left, second shelf from the top? That's two deep. Probably 389 wash cloths. The men here like the thin ones, the ones that could fall apart at any moment.

The fourth from the bottom could be the little boxes, labeled, with all the supplies. Some of the supplies, frequently used by boys, could be in the plastic drawers, so they don't have to shift boxes around. I think I can get at least 9 boxes on that shelf, but WHY? Why do I have that many boxes??? It's like 3 first aid boxes, because various people have given me different amounts of bandaids, several rolls of that wrappy sticky stuff you can use over a cotton pad, which I use to wrap up my fingers when I slice them or when the cold makes them split. Oh, and some ACE Bandages. I love those things. They remind me of my dad for some reason. At some point he played some type of sport and had an ACE bandage, or something. I don't even remember this accurately, it was that long ago.

I guess I could keep everyone's extra change of linens in a little box under their bed?

How could I make this look more luxurious and spa-like? Hide the plastic bins? I have interesting woven paper bins. I could get those giant glass containers too.

hmmmm
I need a list and a budget and a timetable. And a job. Right now no sub jobs are popping up. If I don't get a sub job tomorrow, I am still working tomorrow night, so that's something. Even though it's for way less dollars an hour! I can re-do the pots and pans and tiny appliances and the linen closet options tomorrow. If I don't have a job. If I get a job, it's going to be an effort to do anything at all. I have a meeting downtown at 4, work at 5 till 9-ish. I need to figure out the medicine storage too. I might even switch out my spice baskets for the medicine bin for now.

Okay I'm up past my bed time. Goodnight.