Getting Chores Done

I had a dream that I asked my mom to come up and wash my dishes.  When I woke up, I still had a sinkful.  What a disappointment!  Later, she came up to see Tots and I washed my dishes.  Kind of funny, maybe.

Sometimes I get the Munster theme song in my head, like right now.

I got a lot of stuff done today, which was awesome.  First thing, we went to the bank and did a couple of other errands.  When we got home, I prepared a bunch of stuff for yet another dump run.  My house has collected almost two years of packaging, boxes, plastic grocery bags, junk mail, grocery store circulars.  I got rid of a box and two big bags of recycling, a big old stinky bag of kitchen garbage, a smallish bag of bathroom garbage and a bunch of cardboard.  It was quite the load, and it made me happy.  Ah, the little joys of life.

Pi has been talking about cleaning the computer room for a while, but he said that when he gets home, he’s just so tired.  So, when we got back from the dump, I tackled it.  It actually wasn’t as bad as I thought.  Now, in place of the mess, there is a bag of returnables, a bag of garbage and a bag of recycling, with a bunch of cleared floorspace.  Looks like somebody is going for another dump run in the near future.  I also found a bunch of "missing" toys, so Tots enjoyed playing with them while I cleaned.

A friend of mine gave Tots a little Lego car a while back.  I found it today during my cleaning spree.  He likes to take it apart to that there is a bottom part with wheels and the top part of the car.  If he accidentally fits the two together, he hands them to me saying, "Fixy?"  He likes having them be two "cars".  I don’t know if I explained that right, but if you got it, you can kind of see how cute it is.

I also started cleaning the kitchen table and part of the floor.  I’ve almost filled my recycling box back up just with all the papers from the table.  Little by little, I’m taking my house back from clutter.  I like living in a clean house, but I have only so much motivation to start.  Once I get going, though, I’m a cleaning machine.

Tots is in bed, with only minimal crying, about a minute.  I’ve completed another entry for NaJoMo, and now I’m going to do something mindless for a while.