Productive is the Word of the Day

I was such a productivity champion today. 

I was up at 5:30 today (not really because I wanted to but because I needed to take Husband to work.).  I really thought I would take a nice long nap when I got home but was remarkably not tired.  I knew I had a lot of stuff to do today so I made a list...

• Clean kitchen
• Clean living room
• Clean bathrooms
• Clean Baby's room
• Take unwanted/unneeded stuff to DI
• Buy and wrap birthday presents
• Pack for camping trip
• Laundry
• Call about massage gift certificates (Thanks Dev and Husband), third trimester class, breasfeeding class and preregister for delivery
• Make car payment
• Vacuum

I had all of these things done by 1pm.  I am such a nerd and loved checking each item off the list. 

I feel super accomplished and my poor pregnant body feels super tired.

Love Month 2012 Day Something

I love...

When I come home to Husband washing the dishes.  Oh, happy day!  I've been putting that off so long we ran out of clean spoons.

Old Man Stain

I've lived in my house since November of 2009.  When I moved in, the old man who lived in the house before me left a little gift that I thought would stay with me forever...the old man stain.

It's been around so long, I've learned to ignore it.

Before I even moved any furniture into my place, I worked like a crazy person on this stain.  Carpet cleaners, different store bought cleaners, everything.  I resigned that the stain would live here until I had enough money to replace all the carpet...so basically forever.

Then one beautiful day I found the answer.  I thought, "Seriously.  It cannot be that easy."  But it was.

Want proof?  Here's the same spot on my carpet.

Vinegar.  You may smell like rotten eggs but you clean like magic so I'm going to keep you around.

Sometimes I'm a Bad Wife

I'm off-track until Monday.  Since we got home from Denver, I've been trying to be a good wife (read as all I've done is house-wifey things...grocery shopping, vacuuming, washing dishes, organizing and laundry...that dreaded laundry.  If you remember, sometimes I have issues with laundry.  Here and here).

So here I am, doing laundry and going about other stay-at-home-mom (minus the kids) duties.  I had a load in the washer that was almost done.  I brought my next load into the laundry room and set the load on top of the washer.  I did some more dishes.  The washer dings.  Take the load out, place it in the dryer.  Grab next load...OH. MY. GOODNESS.  Bleach stains.  All over two of my husband's (I think I'll use that instead of his name for a while.  I really like that.  Husband.  Husbandhusbandhusband!  Tangent.  Sorry.) shirts.  Ugh.  And they were really nice shirts.  I almost cried.  I'm a bit emotional.

So I used the Target gift card I received for Christmas to go buy him some replacements.  A replacement for the blue shirt was a no go.  I think I'll get some Rit die and try to make it look somewhat presentable.

But the button ups.  Score at the Target!  Major clearance.  3 shirts for $14.94.  Go team.  I felt pretty good about that purchase.  I wish I could find awesome things for me at that price...beside my super cute red shoes.

Turns out he really likes the new shirts but was not nearly as upset about the mishap as I was.  Who has a fantastic husband?  Oh, that's right.  I do.

What I Love...Day 21, 2011

I love...

water heaters.  It is freeeeeeeeezing and I'm just happy that my shower was warm.  Warm verging on scalding water rocks my socks off.  End of story.

Another Thing About Laundry

I always fall in love with clothes that have a tag that reads "Dry Clean Only." Usually I oblige though I hate dry cleaning because I don't get that fresh laundry scent that I love so much and it costs a lot of money.

I thought I would take this sweater that I've had for ages (that has also been sitting in my closet for ages because of a hideous brown stain on the arm) and try washing it in the washing machine.

It came out and was about 2 sizes bigger than it was when it went in. I thought, "No problem. It was kinda short to begin with. I'll make it work."

I hung it to dry and went on about my day. Then I began to smell something horrible. It couldn't be my fresh laundry...so I went on a search. Nope. Not the garbage can. Nope. Not the fridge. Nope. Not dirty laundry. Nope. Not those smelly boots. What could it be? Just to cover my bases, I smelled the sweater. Yep. That's it. Oh gosh. Now what? Being the laundry genius that I obviously am, I decided to throw it in the dryer to see if the smell would go away.

10 minutes later, I pull the sweater out of the dryer. It still kind of smells but it's now 2 sizes smaller than it was pre-washing...and it has really long arms.

Here's the proof:

Yep. My hand is on my hip. Yep. It doesn't go around me quite like it used to.

Not sure what I'm going to do with it. I still think it's super cute. Maybe I could use an idea from one of the many crafty blogs I follow and refashion it. Or I could just donate it to a toddler with ridiculously long arms.

What I Love...Day 13

I love...

...the smell of clean laundry. It's like my version of catnip. After hanging my laundry to dry and the fresh smell begins to permeate my house, I prance around like I've been given a hallucinogen.

I heart you, clean laundry. I wish I had someone to wash laundry every day so I would (1) always smell the loveliness and (2) never have to do my own laundry.

My Desk

During the last week of school, I took a picture of my desk because it was such a mess. A few days later I was reading through older posts and I came to this one and had to laugh at how spotless my desk was.


Before:

After:

Goal: Be more organized when I go back on track.

Weekends

Oh man!

I should be writing lessons and preparing for my first day and week of school...

instead I went to see Harry Potter. It was fantastic but as with every Harry Potter movie I was disappointed because of things that were left out or not exactly how I saw them in my mind. But it was fantastic. I recommend seeing it.

Other than that, I've spent this weekend going through all the stuff I've accumulated over the years, put them in boxes and loaded them into my car. 7 boxes full. Ugh. I don't know if it's going to be a ton of stuff to move every 9 weeks but I think my students deserve the best, most inviting classroom I can give them...even if it means packing up for days and unpacking for days.

To top off a most productive Saturday, I burned my arm while making delicious food. Ouch! I hardly even touched it but it is killing me. I'm a whining baby.

Clutter

I hate to admit this but I don't know if any of you have noticed, but I am not opposed to clutter in my living spaces. If I've ever given you a ride anywhere, you've had to wait a few minutes to get in while I throw all the crap from my front seat to my back seat.

My bedroom looks a lot like my car. My bed is like the the front of my car, enough room for me but if anyone else wants in they have to wait a minute while I rearrange. Well, it ends today. I cleaned everything for the past 2 hours. And by everything, I mean I vacuumed, dusted, washed sheets, it was crazy busy in here today. Now it's all nice and inviting and people can come over at any time and sit on my bed without advanced notice. Woot. Let's hope it stays this way!

I may have ADD

I am not licensed to diagnose anyone (though I do on a regular basis) but I really think I might. I say this because I cannot finish anything. Everything I do is in small chunks. I start a million projects at a time then it takes me forever to finish these million things. Here is a classic example from today:

I began by going to look for places to live. Because I hadn't done any research, the search didn't last long and I went home (plus I needed to use the bathroom, I have the bladder of a 3 year old lately!). I arrive home (used the bathroom) and decided I need to organize all my crap from the past year of school so I begin making piles. This then leads to me seeing my graduation announcements and realizing that I need to send those out asap so I should probably forgo the piles and work on addressing envelopes. As I'm addressing, I think "Man, it's so quite, I'll turn on some music." Which inevitably leads me to my computer where I turn on music then play 2 games of Free Cell followed by a jaunt through Facebook land and a little blog stalking. Then I made lunch and watched some How I Met Your Mother (which is the funniest show ever! Watch these if you don't believe me.)

Barney is hilarious!

Then I picked up my sister from school, finished up some homework and went to get ready to go to school. This is the time I remember I had left my piles of junk and graduation announcements all over the floor along with my music playing. ADD?

Today was my second day as a graduate student. I really like the class I'm taking but because I don't have the experience the other students have, I feel like I don't have anything to say.

I also have an interview at Grant Elementary on Friday. I hope it goes well. I really want this job!