Thursday, 2 October 2008

okay, so i've started my wardrobe overhaul. there's literally no room in my wardrobes and with the new season coming up i think it's time to make some. it looks absolutely disastrous right now but hey it always gets better before it gets worse. i have bits and pieces of the next three/four days to work on it before my boyfriend gets home and says "hah! i told you nothing would be cleaner when i got back." which won't be happening.



so that's where we're at right now. yes, yes, i know. here's my plan.

Day One
Organize
1. Divide clothes into the following piles
- things i wear
- things i might wear
- things i don't wear, but want to keep
- things i don't wear, but somebody else might
- things nobody would wear
- "going out" dresses (not worn often, they can find a new home)
2. Get everything other than "Things I Wear/Might Wear" out of my room
3. Divide things i wear into two more piles - clean/dirty.

Day Two
Tidy
1. Start washing the dirty pile (will probably be like 923083 loads)
2. Put away the clean pile
3. Make decisions re: things i might wear
4. Tidy the rest of my room (it's mainly clean, just clothes)

Day Three
Clean
1. Mop floor
2. Clean "kitchen"
3. Clean bathroom
4. Wash Sheets/Towels

Day Four
Finishing Touches
1. Fresh sheets
2. Flowers
3. Scented oils
4. "A place for everything, everything in it's place."

I have to work today and I'm hanging out with Andi tomorrow but I have all of saturday free (cleaning day, fun fun). Then my boyf gets home sunday afternoon, I'll probably go to his house for the night but at least I'll be leaving everything nice and clean.

Wednesday, 1 October 2008

pinch and a punch for the first day of the month!
(white rabbit)

okay today was my big cleaning day, and it's 1pm already and i've done zilch.

i woke up early, enjoyed my breakfast in the sun...

now cleaning for me used to be (and still is) a bit of an adventure, an act. it takes a little while to get in character.

first, there's costume. i used to wear my "cleaning dress" and a string of pearls, to get in the housewife kind of vibe of things. i put it on this morning (sans pearls, did you take them all away with you?) and something just didn't feel right.



then it clicked. i wasn't dressing up anymore, cleaning isn't some kind of game that i play when it takes my fancy. i actually have to clean. so i thought, what i need is a new cleaning dress. it still needs to have a traditional shape and make me feel all homely, but it needs to be my own take on what kind of housewife i plan on being. oh and it needs to be as uncomfortable to sit down in as possible.



introducing my new housewife dress. i wanted to make myself a martini to celebrate but then realized i probably want to drive later, damn P plates. cranberry juice in a martini glass will have to do.

so that's that for costumer, now i just need music... female jazz singers. maybe a bit of herbal tea and a lot of motivation.

more importantly, i have three more whole days without my boyfriend. he called me last night and casually threw into conversation "oh i nearly broke my neck today." he escaped with some stitches in his chin but god, i'm so glad i didn't see it, how scary. he better play safe today.