What's going on

Well, things haven't really been busy. But I've not been doing just nothing either. With the great Turkey Day quickly approaching, meaning an extra three days to my weekend I had to get as far ahead at work as possible. Which, this time of year is possible, not fun, but possible. The checks are written, the phone calls and emails returned. All I have to do Monday and Tuesday is the stuff that comes in on those two days.

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So, I've joined this Flylady.net thing. I get about 30,000,000 emails a day reminding me to go clean something. It's kinda nice and kinda annoying at the same time. But hey, my bathroom, kitchen, and laundry room haven't been this clean since we moved in a couple years ago. They help you declutter your house 15 minutes at a time. Intersting concept. One of the things I do like about it is how they split the house up into Zones. This week the Zone has been the Bathroom and one other room (I chose the laundry room because it's the most neglected and my catch all). Everyday you're suppose to spend 15 minutes in your Zone. So, day one, I set the timer on my cell phone, cleaned the toilet, sink, and bathtub and then my time was up. It was kind of nice. I said, ok, that's enough for one night. The next night I swept and mopped before moving on to the laundry room. Next week the focus is the Master Bedroom. I wonder how many bags of STUFF Hope Outreach will get out that room?
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And I've been waking up at 6:00 am this week for no reason (I love to sleep in and 6 am really isn't my thing). Since Nickel isn't leaving for work at 6 am he's still in bed asleep when I wake up. I don't want to wake him up by turning lights and such on so I've been getting up and going to the kitchen, on the other side of the house, and cleaning. Every morning I've put away last night's clean dishes and washed whatever we used since I washed them last, mostly cups but a few plates every now and then. Then I clean the cabinets and water the plants. I don't vacuum that early in the morning, but I've thought about it. I get Peanut's lunch ready then I've been doing a little devotional in the morning. Been nice, but it's starting to catch up with me. I wonder how long this will last.
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Last night I was cleaning the layers of lent and dust that had accumulated on the dryer when Nickel got home from work. Here is the conversation we had:
Nickel: What's wrong?
Me: Nothing, I'm just cleaning.
Nickel: Are you power cleaning? (Sometimes when I get really mad I clean-everything and you better get out of my way while I'm doing it!)
Me:No, just cleaning.
Nickel: But you never clean the laundry room.
Me: (laughing)Well, don't you think it's about time I did?
He walked away satisfied that the world hadn't ended nor was I sick and about to die.
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So, there you go. Now that I've caught you up on my world as I know it I'll get back to cleaning.