To do lists
Okay. My sister’s house was a wreck and I was beating her down pretty hard emotionally and psychologically or whatever. I completely berated her for the first two hours of my stay after we got back from the mall.
We resolved several problems however. In the last couple of days, I was so busy that I didn’t even have time to check my work email!!! I still haven’t. I haven’t had time to respond to Miles (this cute guy who’s had his bookmark on me for a while but who finally msged me after I put up "single" on my friendster page… he’s cute but he’s a Virginia citizen! oh well, nobody’s perfect). I also haven’t had time to respond to friends, return calls or post on this blog. Here’s why:
1) my mom and I cleaned my sister’s house from top to bottom. we cleaned the bathrooms, kitchen, dining room, living room, dishes… holy shit we got all up in my sister’s dirty house!
2) my sister and mom did all the laundry in the house. It was my idea to go to the laundromat (so of course, I had to pay!) but they were able to do 12 out of about 18 loads. The remaining loads are in bags in the back of the truck awaiting the laundromat tomorrow. Once all the loads are done, the lice will be completely extinct!
3) My sister got buckets of lice killer and put it in all her kids hair. I put it in her hair and we got rid of ‘em all. Boy, that little lice comb was a bitch to get through and it was disgusting. I don’t think I’ll ever be the same again.
4) I found a way to go to the gym for free! I was originally planning on paying 8 bucks a day to go the gym in my sister’s small town. I ended up going to my mom’s larger town and will go to every gym a different day and do the guest pass, pretending to test out the gym and see if I want to be a member. The first gym I went to sucked, but tomorrow’s will be better and I still worked out for an hour and a half! I took my niece today and she couldn’t keep up. ha!
5) My mom cleaned out the fridge, trashing so much old moldy funky food. Geez–it’s as though my sister was a bachelor cooking food and leaving it in the fridge for week. yuk! I opened up the fridge and some old potatoes started winking at me!
6) Me and my niece took out 8 bags of garbage! I cleaned up one out of three of their bedrooms and added with the rest of the common rooms, collected 8 bags of trash. What a mess. Now we can see the floors in most of the rooms and we’re almost done. In 2 days, perhaps we can have the whole house clean and clutter-free!
7) Last but not least, my sister scheduled a garage sale and advertised it in the paper. It only cost 8 bucks to put in the paper and get permission from the city to organize. We’ll have it on Sunday from 8-12 and we’ll get rid of all the extra clothes, toys, videos, magazines, shoes, and crap laying around the house! Perhaps my sister will make some money in the process.
My sister called her friend Andy and he cleaned out and fixed the toilet. THANK GOD! She told me that she didn’t know that there were worms in there and she got all grossed out (like everyone else) and called her friend immediately.
aaaaah! My vacation is good. My sister is cleaning up her house, the toilet doesn’t suck, my mom is staying with us to help clean, the clothes are clean, we’ll have a garage sale, I’m taking the girls to see Harry Potter on Thanksgiving day and my sister and I will go watching shooting stars when all are asleep tonight! Thank GOD the house is clean. I was beginning to think that I would have to spend my entire trip @ my mom’s house.
Gotta jet, my sister’s kids are jumping all over me to get off the comp.
