My oldest daughter is graduating high school Saturday. While I'm happy for her and am excited for the party we have planned for Saturday afternoon, there's one part I'm dreading - having to get the house to "guest" level of clean. You see, I'm OCD and if I had my way, my house would be perfectly organized. Unfortunately, I live with five other people and only ONE of them (DD#4) thinks like me. The remaining 4 are, well let's just say, not as concerned with organization as we are. So, while my house was cleaned and organized this past weekend, it's a wreck tonight. And, naturally, no one is doing anything. I'm about to grab my daughter's softball bat and smash the WiFi router. But then I wouldn't be able to post this blog update and I'd be forced to get off Facebook and stop playing Crack Crush... uhh, I mean Candy Crush. (I know I'm not the only person addicted to it. Right?) Plus I'd end up having to buy a new router and I don't have time to do that this weekend.
So, I really should be washing the dishes - or yelling at the kids to get the dishes done. Then there's the whole sweeping and washing the floors. I have a love/hate relationship with my floors - all the floors in our house are either hardwood or tile. I love the convenience of just sweeping up messes but damn do I hate having to wash the floors. Granted it gives my upper body a nice workout but I just don't want to do it when there are people home. Maybe I can do it tomorrow afternoon, while DH is at work and DD's #2, 3, & 4 are in school. DD#1 will be home but she's too busy freaking out about the possibility of tripping over her gown to really be much help.
Couple all this with the fact I need to find time to dye my hair (prematurely grey and I don't need the various comments about my 1 1/2" of grey roots), get my hair cut (hopefully I can get that squeezed in tomorrow morning), make the blueberry muffins that I didn't make last night (did I mention I'm addicted to Facebook?), go to Walmart and buy paper plates/tablecloths/cups/etc. for the party, and give myself a mani/pedi. So what am I doing right now? Sitting on the couch, writing another blog post and trying to ignore the constant nagging feeling that I must be forgetting something that's super important for this weekend that I don't have on a list yet. Yes, I am a list-maker. It keeps me sane.
Oh well, time for me to get off-line and get started. Otherwise you'll be seeing a blog post Saturday night about how everything fell apart because I was too busy blogging, making pretty collages on Pinterest, and playing Candy Crush.
*****No recipe to share tonight. DH made dinner... well, he started it and I ended up cooking the rest of it. (Homemade version of Hamburger Helper - 2 boxes of organic shells and alfredo sauce from Whole Foods with a pound of extra-lean ground beef, browned and drained, and half a bag of frozen organic peas. Not a typical meal for our family but it was surprisingly delicious.)
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