Dishes

Okay.

Yes, I fully admit it. I am a blog-slacker.

Well, actually I am a slacker at a lot of things. I probably shouldn't just limit myself to just blog-slacking. I'm more of your jack-of-all-slackers; you name it and I can put it off, shove it aside or bury it under a mound of excuses. But eventually, even I have to pay the price. In this case, the guilt and fondness for my little blog here have forced me to post again (hallelujah!). In the case of my seemingly always messy kitchen, I was eventually forced to create a mountain of dishes:

Yes, that is an entire sink piled with dishes, with a very flimsy dish rack that should have been retired 2 years ago. I'm fairly certain every spoon I owned was at the bottom of the pile and that the three flexible plastic cutting boards provided sound structural support to my creation. It is a work of slackerish-beauty. In fact, it was so nice I left it there in all its glory for 2 whole days. Yep, I told you I was a slacker.

I think this can safely be filed under random. What says you?

Better than it was

The last time I was here I laid out some rather grand plans for self improvment. I suppose I could call it my plan to unslothify (yes I totally made that word up... what are you going to do about it?). So, here is my first update.

Goal 1(that whole exercise thing): I've been pretty good about getting to the pool. Yay for me! Now for the bad news- the mangled ankle is a bit slow in recovering. Perhaps re-twisting it yesterday morning was not the best thing in terms of its speeding recovery.

Goal 2 (the Chair): Ha! Nothing happening here. Still need to order that silly cotton batting. Besides the chair is currently buried in sewing projects/items needing ironing. Crap. Those also need to be added to my goals. Just to give you an idea, this is what the chair looked like 2 years ago when I had just started working on it. Yes, it really is pretty hideous, as is the foot stool. And no, I haven't finished reupholstering it either.

Goal 3 (cleaning): Okay, here I definitely made progress. I've now got 3 bags of stuff to go to the salvation army. What I learned from this cleaning experience is as follows. (1) I have way, way too much stuff. (2) The last time I read a magazine was approximately 3 years ago. I know this because I have about 100 magazines in my apartment that need reading. I really want to recycle them, but I am going to force myself to read them first. (3) I need to repeat this cleaning process at least 3 more times, only then will it approach the level of cleanliness and order that I had envisioned. But here are some before and afters:

Goal 4 (knitting extravaganza): A non-starter. Well maybe this week. Can't you see all my time was taken up with exercise and house cleaning?

Goal 5 (work, I mean where they actually pay me): See goal 4... the answer is exactly the same.

So, all in all, I guess I could have done a little better, but I could have done a lot worse too. Besides, I also was dog sitting, visiting with my super cool friends Megan and Joshua who were only in town for the weekend and dealing with the sudden death of my wireless router (sadly, I require a wired connection to my modem, until I decide on which new router to purchase).

Therefore, I'll call Operation Unslothification a success (so far).