NoJoMo Day 13

I’m starting cleaning early for Thanksgiving.  Actually, I THOUGHT Thanksgiving was next Thursday, so I started cleaning to get ready, then someone told me I had two weeks, and I thought, oh good… but I still better keep it up.  I’m working on the detail stuff first… the stuff I NEVER get to.  The baseboards, the food and fingerprints on the wall, the dirt on the light switches… I even cleaned the FAN.  It had a LOT of dust on it.  So I’m putting up tomorrow’s entry early so I don’t have to think about it.  I did 4 loads of laundry today, helped Shabree clean up her room just a bit, Sydni helped also. 

Helping Sydni with her homework is SUCH a nightmare, but that’s all I’ll say about it.  She started screaming how she was a dummy, and I just lost it.  I screamed back that she’s NOT allowed to say that.  Grrr. 

So I have a small list, and it includes getting all the trash cans emptied, cleaning the bathrooms.  I’ll actually probably get the girls to clean their own bathrooms, but this one down here is kind of a toss up… it’s "Becca’" bathroom, but everyone uses it, and she NEVER does a fantastic job cleaning it… it’s kind of gross.  So I might clean that one, or have Becca clean some of it while I detail it so it’s CLEAN.  I’ll probably break out the bleach for that bathroom.  Ick.  I need to mop, but I may wait til the Wednesday before, I don’t know.  Jerry wanted to do it with the Kirby, but I don’t know, he hasn’t shown me how.  I WAS going to do it the "old fashioned" way, with my little mop, and he kind of got after me about it… okay, we WERE doing the living room carpet at the time, which looks FANTASTIC.  But I was "helping" and well… I wasn’t really helping.  So he was mad at me… I finally started truly helping.  I don’t know.  I was just having a real hard time focusing, and I didn’t feel like helping, but I really wanted that carpet to be clean.  Oh, it’s nice now.  There’s a LITTLE bit of staining, but it mostly looks great, almost like new.  So YAY for that.  Now, what can we do for the couch cushions?  I had a little spot cleaner, but I guess the kids broke it… GRRRRR, and DOUBLE GRRRR, WHY can’t they keep their hadns OFF of stuff?  I had a little green machine for years with no problems, but within a year or two of buying a new spot cleaner, they destroy it.  They never keep their hands off our stuff.. it’s all fair game.  Supposedly somewhere around here there is an attachment for the Kirby to allow it to clean the couch… but it’s gone.  Who knows where?  So I’m at a loss as to what to do about the couch.

I think Becca took my blank CDs.  I was going to give some blank CDs for Christmas presents, and they’re gone.  I don’t actually know where they are.  And I’ve been burning to DVDs lately… but it’s still irritating, because once again, they take off with something that’s mine, and they had no permission.  I think I told her she could have ONE. 

Oh… I guess the kids are on my nerves.  Well, they could SO stop just helping themselves to stuff.

Cleaning today wreaked HAVOC on my hands.  I have eczema, and I’ve had a REALLY bad flare up for a month or so now.  Water and soap make it much worse, and my fingers are RED and itchy.  Not to mention the cracked skin and the pain… not fun.  They’re pretty inflamed.  I have no cuticle to speak of.  One finger is a little swollen.  And of course, when I scratch due to the itchiness, it only makes it much worse.  I’ll wake up in the middle of the night scratching in my sleep… it’s so bad, I wake Jerry up.  That, I don’t know how to stop.  It’s a problem.  I have medicine, but I do forget to apply it, and since it’s on my hands… it can be hard with the baby, because I’m always touching her.  I’ve really just had to put aside all my concerns and really MAKE myself start applying it to my fingers, otherwise I’m going to end up with more serious issues.  At one point, my fingers were even bleeding (not today, but in the last week.)  And of course, it all makes cleaning that much harder… and I don’t really want to clean.  I am anyway.  I just… I can’t use it as an excuse.  I have far too many excuses.

Okay, I’m really tired.  Oh, I almost forgot!  I have a field trip tomorrow with Sydni’s class.  We’re going to the farmer’s market.  Hopefully they take EBT, if so, I will get some veggies and fruit… yum, and whoohoo.  We totally need to go shopping before Thanksgiving.  But I love the Farmer’s Market for the prices on stuff.

Whooops, just heard Alex, she must be awake, guess I’ll go get her.  Thankfully, she is NOT crying.