You don't have to feel like doing something to do it!

So, how many times have I said that to my kids! "Mommy, I don't want to clean my room." Mommy, I don't want to study." Well, Mommy, "I don't want to clean out closets and clean up my scrap room!" Honestly, I can't believe how tired I have been. The trip really did put a lot of lead in my big butt!

However, I've adapted a policy of one big black garbage bag a day! Gotta go, gotta clean out the crap and clean up the space!

Yesterday I cleaned out my make up drawer, which is about deep enough for lipstick and eye liner. Threw away those yucky sticky MK glosses and cleaned that drawer out. I also bought a new basket for my makeup, etc. that won't fit in the drawer and has to sit out on the counter. I bought new clothes hampers. The ones I wanted were at Pier One and only $100.00 each and I need three. I bought three at WM and they were $15.00 each! For Pete sake we keep them in the closet. They're not even in the bathroom where anyone can see them. So, then I cleaned out the bazillion almost empty bottles of shampoo etc. from under my sink and put all the curling irons and brushes for a longer hair style in a bin to be dealt with later. It looks good and I feel better.

Today I cleaned out the linen closet and the curio cabinet in the bathroom because it was full of junk from Bath and Body works that is just not getting any attention anymore! Moved all my Vera Bradley purses into the drawer in my armour, which meant I had to clean that out, and placed linens into the linen closet. I about dropped dead when I realized the linen closet had gotten a fresh coat of paint when Daddy and I rebuilt the closet in October of 2003. That's how long it's been since I really went through things and did deep cleaning.

I hired a girl to come clean house for me on Mondays for three hours. She does the floors and bathrooms and whatever else I ask. She best clean these glass doors next week! Doggie nose all over them. But, the point is this, it springboards me into continuing on with these projects.

DH is in the city with the big dogs from the Bigger City/Hotlanta! He will be home in time for bed. I thought what a great day! I'll get my projects done and then begin to clean up my scrap crap. OMG, I still can't look at that stuff! I mean I've unpacked and have put away most of it from my tote but the table top looks like a heap pile of mess!

I need to get my scrappin' groove back! Yeah, after more than 70 pages in two weeks it stands to reason that I am burned out for a while. Scrappin' makes me feel connected to my peeps, I feel so lonely since I got all spoiled by having girl time for two weeks! I miss my CHI 5 Sisters, Bev, and Les! I'm beginning to feel like Miss Nancy on Romper Room, "and I miss Cassie, and Alicia, and Sally, and Lynn, and Denise, and Meredith, and people I haven't even ever met IRL!

When you start a project, at least for me, it's hard to find a place to stop. Last night DH came home and that meant dinner time but I have nothing to stop me today. No mom, no kids, no husband!

Oh, and to add to it! I can't take the car out of town until it gets new tires so that cx's a road trip to the city!

Am I going to turn into a soap opera watcher? Oh no, say it isn't so!