No Buffet Today!

Well, we were doing good to get up and to the meeting on time this morning!  So it was quickly prepared breakfasts for all of us!  Yesterday's buffet was fun, though; I enjoyed doing that.  I didn't get a lot done the rest of the day, though.

I am so behind on stuff here at home.  The dishes and the laundry get done on a daily basis; everything else is "hit it when we can", and that's with a husband and kids that help out.  Thomas worked until 1:00 yesterday; then he helped a friend put a railing on his porch.  Andrew cleaned his room (I mean really cleaned!) because he was facing groundings if he didn't -- that took him all day.  Eler Beth did her chores and then played with friends all afternoon, so basically I had most of the day to myself.  I did some grocery shopping and because I had got up in such a good mood and had so much fun with breakfast I thought I'd tackle some chores I'd been putting off lately -- like going through "stuff" (you know what I mean by "stuff" -- accumulated junk, basically), cleaning out and rearranging cabinets, closets and pantry shelves, etc.  I would decide on something to start on, stare at it for a minute, get this overwhelming feeling of dread, despair and hopelessness and think, "I'll just do another load of laundry."  There's always laundry, so that's a good cop-out.

So basically yesterday I got caught up on laundry!  Yay!  That's one good thing.  I also read some of The Masqueraders (the Heyer book that my Heyer group is discussing this month -- I've read it so often that I pretty much have it memorized, but it's been a few years since the last time I read it, so I'm enjoying it.).  Then when Thomas got home we had a nice dinner and watched a movie.

And I'm still depressed by all the stuff that needs to be done.  We have so much JUNK!  And I really don't know where to start.  Sometimes I'd like to just chuck it all out the door to the curb and start from nothing, but then I see something like a picture one of the kids did in Kindergarten, or a souvenir from a class trip I took 30 years ago, or something that "I'm not using now, but I may someday", and I know I'll never be able to start from nothing!

And there are little projects I'd love to get to like updating scrapbooks, picture albums, painting the kids' rooms (that was supposed to have been done through the summer, but wasn't).  When, oh when, am I going to get to these things?  I did clean my bathroom yesterday.  That's one of the things, like dishes, that doesn't get put off.  But dusting and vacuuming, sweeping and mopping...........don't get done like they should, bad me, bad me!  Well, enough of that!  I'd better go.  It looks like it may start raining soon, and I have sheets on the clothesline!