Preparing for Battle

Anytime a very large event in my life, be it school, a new job, travel, or visitors, I panic clean. Ok, that's not completely true, I panic clean on a regular basis because that what i do. Do you remember waaaaay back in June when we were about to go to New Mexico? We had very intention of getting the house clean before we left and only got about halfway there. . . Well now, with classes coming up in less than a week, I figured I needed to tackle the huge laundry pile that had conquered my bedroom over the last few months.

Now, I am an incredibly messy person, but I do try and clean up fairly often. My worst enemy when it comes to a clean bedroom is laundry. After a long trip and I have to unpack, I'll live out of my suitcase for quite a long time. Or when I have a freshly cleaned room and its time to do laundry I will ultimately fail in putting away my clean clothes and the chaos soon spreads. 

You can imagine how irritated my editor gets with me when he had to deal with my laundry. But to be fair, I have to deal with his laundry too. So, mleh!

I started this morning out by moving all the laundry that was on my floor into the hallway. I sorted them out by color and have been doing my best to get them clean within a reasonable time frame, so it's all done today. We picked up all the everythings off the floor, hand scraped a large bit off the cat hair from the carpet (so it wouldn't clog the vacuum cleaner), and vacuumed. Also clean bed sheets are the best thing ever. So while we wait for the laundry to finish, I've cleaned off my dresser and started to sort through the massive amounts of jewelry I have. Eventually, I'll have a whole pile of things I can give up for goodwill. 

It's going to be a long night, but I love the feeling of living in a clean house, even if its only for a little while until I've ignored it enough that its overflowing again. I dream of the day where I can live in a real house (rather than the apparent thing I live in), and I'm wishing for a home with a large enough living room where I can have an office and an entertainment space all in one place (kind of like what I have now, but much less crowded).

Aright. That's it for me today. No video games to go back to, but whatever.

Also, she was helping.

I really need a shower. . .