let's make this one a productive Saturday

On the docket for today:


* fold clean laundry & put it away
* clear Museum of Candlesticks from the coffee table & sort (what we're keeping, what's going to David)
* put the avalanche of books in the office onto shelves
* change laundry over; bring clean stuff upstairs to fold and put away
* develop system for where to put "okay I wore it today but it's still clean so I don't want to put it in the laundry" clothes
* coin jar... collect all five million pennies that cover every surface of this house and put them into a container
* buy paper towels so I can then clean the kitchen and bathroom
* new sheets on bed
* change laundry over again; bring clean stuff upstairs to fold and put away
* put away clean dishes and throw a few more dirty ones into the dishwasher
* shower because now I am sweaty
* buy some sort of food for guests to eat because The Bear Pair are coming over :D

Aren't I such a good little housewife-in-training. Although that's an unfair statement... M does a lot of this stuff himself during the week, and when I'm around we're pretty good at sharing household responsibilities. He's gotten better at keeping things clean that I have lately... but I've gotten fed up with those small messes that pile up, or the fact that we only had one large towel to share after showering last night because the laundry pile had grown so big. So now I'm determined to get ALL of the laundry done today. I mean, there's only two of us, how hard can it be? I'm just really lazy about trekking "all the way" down to the basement... I'd prefer to walk a few blocks than to go up and down stairs.

I think I'm going to start with folding laundry and putting new sheets on the bed. You might see some strikethroughs appearing throughout the day. Know that my mood is a direct reflection of how many strikethroughs show up... if I don't get much done, ESPECIALLY before The Bear Pair arrive... I don't want them seeing my home a disaster. I must be Martha Stewart OR ELSE. ha.

On a side note, I've decided to give creative nicknames to friends of mine that I write about in here. It appears to be the very "blog" thing to do, and since I'm new to "blogging" (as opposed to LiveJournaling, which I consider quite a different "art") I figure I might as well try it out. I don't have a good nickname for M, and he couldn't think of one either. It's hard to redefine someone you're so very close to with a one-dimensional nickname! But for M's best friend since highschool (also the Best Man in our wedding) and his husband, "The Bear Pair" is too cute and tacky to pass up.