My inevitable to-do list has been growing all week. Summer is upon us and everything I had wanted done for Spring is still nowhere near done. Ack. Stupid East Coast weather has impeded the process...as well as laziness and hectic schedules. Booooooo.
This. ends. now.
I decided last night that I would get all of my housekeeping done so that I didn't have to do it all on the weekend as we usually do. No helper for the chores this week, since DBF is at sea....so I didn't want it to consume my entire Saturday. Got everything but the vacuuming done, but that was taken care of today so it's all good. I even did all the laundry....folded and put away too. Woot!
So this leaves me all day tomorrow and Sunday to work on the crazy-ass to-do list. I don't even know where to start. I guess the weather will help dictate that, because if it's as windy as it was today there won't be much getting done outside.
I think I will start in the spare room and work my way downstairs towards the storage rooms and garage.
Indoor list for your perusal:
- Office (sort filing, finish tidying, etc)
- Spare Room (move garage sale stuff down to garage, put bookshelf together, get rid of broken dresser, make ready for actual use)
- Storage Under Stairs (pull everything out, put back only wine rack, luggage and wrapping supplies)
- Furnace Room Storage (pull everything out, build shelving unit, put back only Christmas decorations... and potentially camping gear)
- Garage (aka: black hole of death... keep plugging away at sorting between "keep", "sell", "trash", "donate")
I bought a dolly today. I don't know why we didn't think of this before. Now I'll be able to move the extra appliances and heavy stuff out of the way for proper sorting, viewing and storage. For only $35, who knew?!! Had I known they were that cheap I would have bought one years ago.
More stuff that needs to be done outside:
- design garden area (figure out how to deal with the boring mess the previous owners left us)
- dig out said garden area and plant perennials (oh ya, buy perennials....and a shovel...oh and edging...hmmm, and an edger...errr, and top soil...)
- more weed n feed for the lawn (those freaking dandelions are resilient little buggers)
- edge and clean up lumpy lawn mess around deck
- finish sanding new stairs
- sand and paint fire pit thingy in back yard (apparently it's good fun, when it's not all rusted and ugly)
- power wash front steps, paint front steps
- tidy up front garden area (maybe add some of those perennials...)
Good lord!! It's going to be Autumn by the time I get through all of this. Well, at least I won't be bored. (and DBF will be home for a whopping five days so I'm sure he can crank out a few things....haha)
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