keeping my promise

today i cleaned out the corner in the dining room that has become one of the many major dumping grounds. i'm hoping to continue on this path by clearing out the clutter room by room. i've set no time limit and will get to each one as my gimpy self permits. on flare up days i don't even want to get out of bed, but i do anyway because my little chitlens need me.

so on the good days i will try to do a little here and there. with the power of the grand high pubbah of upper butt crack back sending his good juju i will remember i am totally capable of getting it all under control.....i will. at least that is what the reverend of the church of spongebob preached about during his last sermon. *wink*

today my uncle juan (who still calls me nani) came to pick up the red porsche that has been sitting in the garage for almost 5 years now. when he first saw it a few years ago he said he would be interested in buying it if chris would let it go. it took a while to get all the details in order but now it's gone yay!

uncle paul came to help him tow it back to his house and jewel wanted to tag along with them. so i said sure, she loves spending time with paul & paula. my mom is here this week and she said she would drive out to humble to hang out with them and she offered to bring lulu. paula has been wanting to see lulu. they love their uncles and always have so much fun when they visit with them.

so while they were gone i decided to tackle that growing mound of crap in the corner of the dining room. oy i found so much stuff in there that was just plain junk. i filled one garbage bag with donation stuff and another garbage bag with trash. i also decided to finally throw out all the empty diaper boxes that were stacking up over there.......total there were 12! wtf was i saving those for .......i have no idea. we usually end up using those boxes to be temporary storage to stuff we just don't want to put away at the moment so it in turn creates more piles of crap.

hopefully tossing them will stop us from doing that in the future. in the next couple of days i'm hoping to attack the kitchen cabinets, the pantry and the kitchen storage closet. all a crazy mess!

i plan to take before and after pics so that everyone who reads my blog can see what i slob i have become in the last 3 years. maybe shame will help me break the bad habits and i'll try harder to make sure it stays the same way after i'm done.

i used to be so organized and i always knew where everything was, it was much easier to find things. now i waste too much time looking for little things. stupid little things like nail clippers. we now own 5 pairs because we couldn't find one pair and we would buy another....and so on until we accumulated 5!! we do this with a lot of things and it's getting annoying as all get out.

anyway i will try to update as i go but don't hold your breath because blogging regularly is one of my problems that i am trying to get back to......but it will be slow at first while i concentrate on the house. :)