The Content Housewife

Today is a big day.

This is the first time I can EVER remember that I have made cookies and NOT made a huge mess of everything. Plus, the mess that WAS made (because, let’s face it, you can’t keep a 100% neat kitchen while baking sugar cookies!) is cleaned up!

WOOHOOO! And it’s all thanks to UFYH, really, that my kitchen was clean before I started and then I felt guilty leaving any kind of mess as I went along. So thanks for that :D

Plus now I have yummy sugar cookies baked, and the sis-in-law is coming over tomorrow night to help decorate them. Let’s hope I can keep up this “stay unfucked” attitude over the next week where I will be making four MORE kinds of cookies!

A Monday

Didn’t sleep well last night (again, shocker). But I’m not going to let that stop me today!

-Chicken soup is in the crock pot for dinner

-Laundry is started

-Dishwasher is running

Off to a pretty good start, for a Monday! On the agenda today:

-Unfuck bathroom (completely…scrubbing and cleaning everything, not just organizing)

-Unfuck bedroom (same as above…even *gulp* vacuuming!)

-Finish up Christmas gifts for the family (maybe? I don’t know if my arms will hold up to this one or not, as there’s a lot of “shaking to mix” involved and my shoulder’s already unhappy with me.) I’ll definitely get SOME done, but I don’t know if I’ll finish.

That looks like a tiny list, I know, but the bathroom and bedroom are a MESS!! It’s pretty awful.

Oh, and I hemmed my curtains yesterday so I can turn on my baseboard heater now. I don’t think it’s making much of a difference, but at least I got it done and can stop feeling guilty about it!!

Power to the unfucking! Now, what to put on TV as I work?

You’re right. Harry Potter. It’s a no brainer. ;)

To do today:

dishes

laundry

clear counters

make copy of wedding pics

make DVD of wedding video for family

get christmas cards addressed

fix lighted candy cane so it lights

finish cat toys to donate

finish a bath pouf

clean bathroom

unfuck pantry

walk izzy

Making a decent enough start. Got the pantry done and then did my kitchen cabinets while I was at it, because some of the stuff was kind of related. Whoops, just spotted a bag of Tostitos that didn’t make it out to the pantry yet…

Ok, they’re there now. Whew. I can do this!!

Unfucking my driver’s license tonight, too…or at least, getting my name changed, finally :P took forever with a social security card issue, but the BMV is open later than usual this evening so we get to go when Shawn gets off work - woohoo! I’ll be all official and stuff :D

Now, to the rest. Wish me luck!

It’s morning.

But it’s also Friday, so it’s not as bad as it could be ;)

Mile-long list of things to do today so that I can do CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS tomorrow! Yippee! Except we also have to fix the garage door, because the cable on it snapped. Argh. But hopefully that won’t take TOO long.

Anyway. Here’s to a lovely, productive, and fun Friday!

I CLEANED the stove!

unfuckyourhabitat:

Take five minutes and wipe it down and de-scuzz it. Take an extra two minutes and Windex the front of your oven and the part of the drawer that always collects grime.

BONUS CHALLENGE: De-grease your vent hood. Vinegar works well for this, as does a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser. (Mr. Clean should pay me for endorsing those things. They really are fucking magic.)

This is as unfucked as my stovetop gets…it’s mostly shiny, but the people before us liked to burn things. Burn ALL the food! So even my magic eraser won’t take the burnt-on gunk off there. I’ve tried everything. But hey, I’m happy with getting the stuff that WILL come off, off!

I even cleaned the front, too! And the gunky drawer! Woohoo! (Izzy likes to pretend she helped there, but really she spent the time dragging all her toys out of her basket and laying them strategically in mommy’s way around the house after I’d just picked them up about a half hour ago. Yup. Puppy needs to learn about unfucking.)

(I have an open concept with no vent hood, so I didn’t get a bonus :( )

Just finished Deathly Hallows…

Both parts. I don’t even remember the last time I cried so much. It’s like the “it’s all OVER!” feeling alllllll over again. Pottermore to the rescue, please…