Cleanliness is next to godly-ness. Or at least non-self-loathing-ness.

I get lazy on long weekends...I keep thinking "I can do it tomorrow. It's the long weekend." Then before you know it, the weekend is over and I got nothing done. Then I'm full of self-loathing for the rest of the week. Well maybe not self-loathing, but maybe self-annoyance. So this time, because this is an EXTRA long weekend, I thought I would start doing things a little bit every day. For example, on Thursday night I did a load of laundry. Yesterday, I spent the better part of the day lounging around in bed or on the couch, surfing the net, and watching movies and tv...but! I did manage to vacuum the upstairs and clean my bathroom and the one downstairs. I also dusted and did another load of laundry. Oh and guess what else?! I found our long-lost Wii and PS2! I had been searching for these two things ever since we moved in. I had long since found the controllers, but just not the actual game systems. It was SO irritating because I just knew that I had packed them...I just couldn't remember what box I put them in! So yesterday when my husband decided to straighten up the basement, I went down to look for some bowls and other things. (Everytime I go down to the basement I look through the boxes for stuff). Finally, yesterday after looking through all the boxes in the basement for the 10 millionth time, I happened to look in one of the bags that I kept moving out of the way when I was looking through the boxes. I had just assumed that the box in the bag contained old bills and papers. But when I cracked it open... AHHHH! There they were! We were very excited! I'm so glad we didn't buy another one...Just an aside - Yesterday lasted longgggg... (which is a quality I SO enjoy on long weekends).

So today I cleaned the kitchen, swept the foyer and vacuumed downstairs. All that's left is to clean the other bathroom (which for some reason I can't STAND doing, so I leave it till last). Not bad I guess, but I always feel like when I do my cleaning like that, it's like a relay race. Do something, "pass the baton", do something else. But then nothing is done at the same time and then they get "messy" again at varying times. You know? Like okay, the living room is nice and vacuumed now...but now I have to vacuum upstairs AGAIN because we walked all over the freshly vacuumed carpet yesterday. I like having everything clean at the same time. There's nothing better than a clean house.

Except maybe if my husband was the one that cleaned it.