I'm homeless!

So I dragged my sorry ass out of bed about half an hour later than planned yesterday morning, but I was still at the mall before 9:00am so I figure I was doing good. I stopped for a huge coffee and breakfast sandwich, went to Zellers for Windex and I was on my way.

Starting at 9:30 gave me 4 1/2 hours to get the house cleaned and I used every last minute.

I'll give you the short play by play...

1) Living Room: cleaned all windows (5 floor to ceiling ones on the back wall, and three panes to make up the oversized picture window on the front wall) including all of the ledges, took out all hooks for the blinds, scraped candle wax off floor, mopped like a crazy woman.

2) Bedrooms (of which there are three): windows, general dusting of corners, mopping.

3) Bathroom: scrubbed from top to bottom, including removing fan cover and cleaning, wiping out medicine cabinet, wiped down gross toilet and floor by hand (it's actually easier than mopping it)

4) Hallway: dusted out closets, swept, wiped down all baseboards (for some reason the dog drools more in the hallway), mopping.

5) Kitchen: I had already wiped out half of the cupboards, so wiped remaining cupboards, cleaned counter tops, swept three times (it's was wicked dirty in there!), wiped a lot of dirt off walls from behind appliances, mopped like a mad woman, scrubbed sink when I was done mopping.

6) Basement: Picked up remaining debris and swept. That is all I could bring myself to do down there.

I never did get that baseboard back on....I just sorta pushed it up against the wall and left it there.

Housing guy showed up 20 minutes early, so I was still scrubbing the sink and organizing garbage/recycling when he came in. He was thorough but seemed to be in a hurry to get me outta there, so I basically just signed off and then shuffled out the back door.

Our buddy never showed up to pick up Arron's Firebird engine, so that was annoying, but because it's the weekend the housing guy said we can have til Monday before they'll haul it away. We don't want that so we've been harrassing our buddy non-stop. I wound up with another massive bag of garbage and three small boxes of recycling.....so the neighbors took the recycling (because they can put out an unlimited amount on the next pick up day) but I've brought the garbage into town and hopefully a friend can sneak it into her dumpster.....

Anyway, it's done!!!! I can finally relax and enjoy Christmas!

I even snuck in one final Chiropractor appointment on my way into town, and it was heavenly and I can still feel my tension releasing.

Funny enough, I even managed to grab a couple more prezzies yesterday in my travels so I'm doing OK on that front. I just need a few little things when I get to Nanaimo and I'm done. I am pretty proud that I was able to get that done throughout this gong show.

Last night I had dinner and drinks with some great friends, and although I was seriously tired, I was so happy to actually be dressed up and enjoying good food and company. It was nice to exhale and enjoy the night.

Today, kitty and I will pack up into the car and head up island to stay with my Mom for a while. Poor kitty just made himself at home here, and now I have to shove him back in his carrier and make him ride for two hours in a car to a house with two other kitties. Poor guy!