Honourary Chippy…

I fully intended to clean like a woman possessed today. Then I stopped by Mum’s and Dad’s to get a rough idea of the funeral ‘order of service’ tomorrow. After that I was invited out for a coffee and a bite to eat by Philip. Nice day, rolled down the car windows and bopped around to Jemeroqui. I love that new song by them… Gawd I’m dreadful with titles sometimes and I know they announced it on the radio… but I can’t remember now. Anyhoo… I love that song and it makes me feel throughly boppy when it plays.

Once home Mike and I managed to get into a mini tiff. I decided we had a veritable MOUNTAIN of housework to complete and he thought that we had very little. Keep in mind that I still had quite a bit of washing to finish, the kids room looked like a bomb had hit it, my dining table was full of the crap that I removed from the computer room, the lounge had clothes on the sofa (albeit folded, but STILL), the bathrooms needed cleaning and I had to vaccum. To me that’s quite a lot to do. Mike decided that I was talking about spring cleaning every single section and objected that I would get into such a flurry for a houseguest. I looked at him like he had 2 heads and told him that I LIKED my house to be neat and tidy and WHAT was the problem? Anyway… we ended up doing the whole "fine" thing with arms folded (arguments in our house are so multi faceted… much fun to be had by all) and I retreated to the garage to move a few things around and drag my summer clothes into my wardrobe. I’m yet to go through it but I’m sure I’ll get it done at some point.

Anyway, the kids managed to destroy their chest of drawers. I’m not sure what it is about kids and their inability to look after things, but I was left with several drawers to piece back together. It’s a nice solid tallboy and I wasn’t about to throw it out because of a few broken drawers. So in I went with hammer and nails and steadily banged away until everything was solidly back together again. In fact I hammered so many damn nails into the drawers that I challenge them to fall apart again! Not on my time!

I’m quite lucky. Hubby is making dinner tonight and it smells oh so very very good. Marinated chicken wings with brown rice and veggies. The whole house has been permeated with this wonderful smell. Mmmmmmmm.

Anyhoo. better be off, another load of washing has finished and I need to hang it out while the storm clouds are still at bay.

Vee