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There's a king-sized comforter here. I'm considering the following:

* wash out the tub
* wash the comforter in the tub
* lay out towels on a card table
* put extras around the table
* wring out the comforter as best I can
* lay it out on the card table

Any problems with this plan?

Originally posted on Dreamwidth. Number of comments so far:

So far, my habit of writing a to-do list here as the day goes on, for things to do when I get home, has been total win. I actually get things done, and I rarely actually feel pressured to finish a list, unless the list is due to external time-constraints, like moving, yarr. Yesterday, I organised the clothes in my room, moved some boxes out of the main way, pruned Josh's poor plant, put the dishes in the dishwasher from various parts of the apartment, got some work done on this testing document, and collapsed by around 22:30.

(1) I noted to myself that if I went back in time to 16-year-old X and told her that someday she'd enjoy hanging up clothes, she would mock me roundly.

(2) Gah, I still have a bad bad awful habit of eating in my room. I can't tell whether to break myself of it, or to just include(removeDishes.c).

Course, I generally make such lists private, because Bob knows, to-do lists are rarely all that interesting.

( JUST THIS ONCE )

In utterly related news, Adderall means my sleep goes all wonkified for the first few days, too. I'd been off for a fortnight. Last night, I crashed at about 22:30 and went to sleep around 23:00, then woke right up at 04:00. I don't mean "couldn't sleep", I mean "woke the fuck up yall". *eyerolls @ self*

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I think I may also sell a bit of the silverware and dishes stuff I have. There's no reason to hang onto all this stuff, heavens. It's taking up space I could put yarn in!

...why yes, it is 73°F outside.

Current Mood: meow

Do I want to clean, or do I want to want?

I want:

* a phone that does all of what I want:
- phone
- contacts/tasks/calendar
- syncing w/ desktop
- camera
- split keyboard
- other things I can't describe but I'll know when I argue against them
- weightlifting logging software stuff

* a list of all Charles de Lint characters
- a breakdown of the sexual orientations of them
- perhaps also their relationship pairings, if any

* a good list of stuff one would want on a Palm Pilot

* dancing software that already exists
- arr paper and sketching and could I do this using Javascript and will I have to learn Flash oh god?
- accept that one must at least choose standards
- basic basic moves, and then combine, as macros?
- arr positioning and twirling and tempo matters

* moar smoochins

* a good glass of wine

* to know why it smells like Raid over here, wtf

* basic basic German language teachy lessons in .pdf format

* a good pattern for what to do with ribbon yarn that's not atrocious
- scarf? belt? bag? monkey? butter? turnips??

On the other hand, I need to shower, do laundry, and clean up all the yarn I have.

Hmm.

Current Music: Electric Light Orchestra - Fire On High

* I make dinner, it's Shake'n'Bake chicken and corn. Josh makes dinner, and it's veggies and crock-potted rice, chicken marinated in something nice, and oven-baked cheese bread. So Iiiii think he should be the cooking one. I'll be the washing-up one. I'm not not joking.

* That involved a brief nattering about who does the washing up. I think it's "Whoever partook of the food but didn't cook it does the washing up", and he concurs. I brought it up because he'd done the cooking and the washing up, because his kitchen is small and he knows where everything is and I felt very in the way and aie. He was fine, this was no big deal, but next time I go over, I'll do some dishes or something. (Not a declaration from him, rather a want-to from me.)

* I have this sudden weird urge to join a gym. ...well, no. It's not weird, I've wanted to lift weights for ages. And the only "sudden" part relates to gosh it smells nice outside, I think I would like to partake in happy physical activities.

I also have an urge to knit moar.

* Gosh it smells nice outside. Gimme another week or two like this, and I'll be back to wanting to burn everything I own and move to the woods again.

* I just got Benny And Joon. I've never seen it, so, here I go.

Mm. My day is going to be spent cleaning: fixing a couple of GM scripts, setting my wiki skin to something useful, updating a few settings for a few applications, and maybe putting a computer together. Also shaking off this headache.

Er. Not shaking. Ow.

Current Music: Radiohead - Pyramid Song (2001)

Today:

- I transcribed some more. I found Express Scribe, a freeware utility for Windows, Mac, and Linux that does exactly what I want it to do. One way in which it's awesome is I can access the hotkeys even while in Word, which means I can pause, slow down, rewind, &c without hitting Alt-Tab all the time. Ooooo. It's irritating in that the hotkeys means I can't use them in Word, but how often do I hit F4 anyhow?

- I reorganised my power cord situation a bit. This helped me get it so everything I want plugged in is done at the same time (one was too big, and was blocking two other plugs).

- I moved transcriptioning stuff over to my desktop, as it has better ergonomics.

- I did laundry. I almost have a good clothing system here. I am v. pleased.

- I got tea on a twofer sale - cinnamon apple, and Tension Tamer. Whee! Tea.

- I tidied up a bit. I can do that in like 10 minutes - owning less stuff is rockstar. So is having a little box for all my active miscellany. Alls I need now is to clear out my DVDs to somewhere out of the way, and put my pills stuff in the cabinet. ... *does so* *is pleased*

- I'm singing again. I am singing again. *♥s* And Wednesday I will go to karaoke and sing even more.

Via stef_tm at LiveJournal is Detox Your Home: Assemble a Green Cleaning Kit:

What's not to love about mixing your own cleaning products from tried-and-tested formulas? Not only will a non-toxic cleaning kit save you oodles of cash over the years, but it's also unlikely to leave you gasping for an emergency-room doctor. Cleaning green is also gentler on the environment, to boot. To transform your home into a safe, nontoxic haven, says Annie B. Bond, author of Clean & Green (1990, Ceres Press), you can complement your kit with an edited selection of commercial eco-friendly cleaning products you trust.

I want to test these out, at some point, so that if they work, I can phase out the chemical cleaners we have now. I'll natch post here as soon as I get around to it.

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts. Comment here or there.

Basically, tonight I plan to clean. Doing all my laundry mysteriously sounds appealing, I promised I'd do the kitchen, and I want to rearrange the upstairs some; it's a little crowded up there. Realistically, what are the chances that I'll ever actually sell yarn? I'll probably just send it to yarnly folk I know. "Merry Xmas, have some yarn!" Maybe. That can be part of the rearranging.

I also plan to hang out in the bathroom to pat the kitty and catch up on work. I can't let him out, because even though he was an indoor kitty, he was outside overnight, and I can't take that chance. I'm torn between leaving him there until Monday and moving him upstairs and Ocho downstairs.

Benefits of the former:
- Ocho isn't disturbed, moreso than she already has been.
- I don't have to change huge things.

Benefits of the latter:
- More room for the little guy.
- The downstairs bathroom can be put back to normal - good for minimising change for B's kitties.

--

In other news, there's a new comm,

lj_policy.

- Pancake clouds really reduce my energy. This is a fucking shocker, I know. I think I have a full spectrum bulb or three hanging around; I'll look into it.

- Hanging out with someone means I'm more likely to clean than not. So clearly, I need to get a headset for my phone, or borrow B's a lot, so I can get kitcheny stuff done when I'm on the phone.

- My back is absolutely killing me. Um... Here, specifically. Standing up and sitting down = suck. (I mean, the act of standing up/sitting down.) I'm guessing it's because I sleep terribly. So, if you sit up straight in your chair, and then... move as though you're moving your ass out? Lower back death, ow ow ow. Tonight, apart from cleaning, == bath time a lot. This here is a pile of awesome.

- Ahahaha mean pelvis (sfw).

- This is... wistful, in a kitty way.

- GnuCash! Oh oh! ♥s

- Jennifer (B's new squeeze) (heh) is... *flails* Really sweet. I like her a lot. I approved of her, to B. And we have social anx in common, amusingly enough. Him having a girlfriend is a new thing for me, so I'd love to worry more, but eh. I like her fine, I don't think I push, and yeah. (They haven't discussed terminology, but it seems to be heading there.) (Girlfriend != lover.) I'm v. pleased.

- We had our one-year-in-PDXtown approxiversary yesterday night. I kept looking around and going, "I know enough people to fill up a table! Cool." Also apparently, I'm either going to a roller derby this Saturday, or I'm going roller skating this Saturday, or both. Ooo.

- I got my ear stretched during lunch today. I'm now at a 12g earring (here, 1/2" size). And I, being the wuss that I clearly am, got really faint. The piercer was entirely cool about it, and the counter person commiserated with me about being a pain-wuss. *sighs* This shall now stay in for a few months; we shall see. For my notes: aftercare.

- I am inches away from burning everything I own. I am tired of being a magpie, and collecting things because they might ever be useful. You know what? They rarely fuckin' will. B found a place that takes donated stuff, so I'm going to clean the hell out of the upstairs, and get rid of nearly everything. Damn.

- Speaking of saying fuck it, I've changed my mind - I'm doing convert-knitting-patterns-to-.pdf stuff in Excel, instead. I don't trust Word even a little bit. I miss Reveal Codes, dammit.

I'm drop-dead exhausted.

Current Mood: exhausted

Amanda writes about cleaning the house.

As I said in there, I always feel weird when reading about chore-wars, because my boyfriend is far more tidy than I. What it tends to come down to for us is each of us trying to be fair to the other (I try to clean more, he tries to not give me hell), and we have a weekly cleaning hour-or-so set up. We haven't had a cleaning argument in quite a while, so apparently we're doing something right.

It helps that a lot of things are separate. We have separate areas, we each do our own laundry, and even our cats (my one, his two) have two litterboxen. (To be fair, the last is due to my kitty having cancer.) Sometimes I have a weird desire to merge more, to be more partner-ly, but the rest of the time I figure we're doing pretty okay.

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts. Comment here or there.

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