Cleaning House
I’m in a clean-out, throw-out kind of mood and I just found someone on Craigslist to take my old cassette dubbing deck. Hmm, what can I get rid of now? (And by the way, does anyone have a bedroom [more...]
Date: 2008-10-15 13:43:12
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talking to myself
I'm getting fewer comments than ever, but I feel like I need to blog anyway for my own memory's sake.So LAST Saturday, while we were supposed to be cleaning our old house, getting ready to move, we woke up feeling like NOT cleaning. So we took off to the largest mall I've been to, Bluewater [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 07:14:00
Good help is hard to find
Every other Friday brings drama to our household. Because every other Friday is house cleaning day ... . That kind of thing. So after each cleaning, I would re-arrange the pictures and dust behind ... started going downhill fast. First I came home after cleaning day and found a broken faucet [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 17:11:00
Better Life Review & Giveaway!
Do you dread cleaning the house because you know the second that you start cleaning you will have an instant headache from all the harsh chemicals in ... products. That’s not just a claim; we can back it up. As for traditional solvent-based cleaners [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 18:33:00
Windows & Doors...
Ohhh~ It's a busy busy day for me today, woke up at ard 1pm, which is EARLY since it's a Saturday, to do my laundry and had to wake Dillie up to go lunch and do spring cleaning ... for cleaning those nooks & corners of the house and those uneven surfaces, I am so going to use it again [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 16:39:00
Titles Are Over Rated
Recognition Archives Reviews Contact Titles Are Over Rated July 7, 2008 I may keep my house relatively clean, but my vehicles are another story ... cleaning stuff. And I contemplated renting a steam cleaner for the rug and upholstery, because [more...]
Date: 2008-07-08 00:06:13
To heal the world, sing songs part 3: Barack Obama
Barack Obama t-shirt from 4 hour worldEveryone needs a place to be for the inaugural and something to wear!Personally, I don’t need to be in Washington on Tuesday; the natural cathedrals of the Grand Canyon ... to every house! They also have a video showcase: So today I’m cleaning house (aren’t we all?) and listening [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 19:13:59
I am never cleaning my house again
I am sitting here working while a team of four women clean my home for me. And they’re doing a better job than I would do, too ... the ones doing the vacuuming and floor-washing and cleaning of windows. They even cleaned ... had sprayed cleaning fluids on it. It seems to have taken no damage, and I will inform them that they must [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 21:15:07
Sexy Geraldine
Sexy Geraldine 14.01.09 Geraldine Originally uploaded by cebuphotographer Sexy Resolutions For the New Year 2009 is only hours ... in your couple. Just put yourself in a scenario such as cleaning the house or cooking dressed ... to get out of the house and meet new people. Organize social events with your friends, or go on weekend [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 23:07:05
Fool me twice…
Lloyd’s a stinker. He outright lied to me again* and said that he didn’t have school but the teachers had a ‘workday’ ... all over. It’s so clean now, I am inspired to get the rest of the house in tip-top condition! Clean, yet blurry. Garrrrrrrr. As happy as it makes me, it pains me that he is so good [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 02:49:12
January 18
We spent all day spring cleaning the house (vacuuming up dog hair, steam cleaning a few old random pee spots, etc). Naturally, I still see Maggie's spirit running through the house, taking naps [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 02:04:00
happy new year!!
I hope everyone had a wonderful new year. Yes, I know I'm a bit late but with everything that happened over the holidays I needed a bit of a break ... and now everything is back to normal. I had planned on doing a whole bunch of organizing and cleaning. My house is a mess. It still is, I am slowly trying to make myself clean a bit at a time. We're [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 20:45:24
Sunday cat blogging
I can’t help it! Amber was being so weird that I had to share. Plus I am a little distracted this weekend with SportsBoy in a baseball tournament (local thank heavens) so I am trying to catch up on yard work and house cleaning between his game schedule and also catch some of the events in DC. Several of my friends are out there and it is really [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 13:38:41
Tis’ the Season to Be Clean (and Green)! Part 1
My husband absolutely insists on having a clean house. I, on the other hand, am not as keen on the actual process of cleaning ... and protect most hard surface floors, strengthening the floor and leaving a streak-free, shiny finish ... table very soon). Perfect Planet is Weiman’s environmentally friendly line of cleaners designed [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 06:33:30
Quick (?) note re my recovery progress
I've been hesitant to blog too much about my 2 broken wrists for fear of boring everyone & because it seems a low priority with a war going on ... with assorted idiots, I finally got a home health aide yesterday. She'll be cleaning house & helping me shower ... when sleeping or out of the apartment, for protection). I have a gorgeous "Frankenstein [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 22:38:00
Skin MD REVIEW and GIVEAWAY!!!
Thanks to the Family Review Network I got to try out Skin MD Natural Shielding Lotion + Sunscreen SPF 15 ... feels all tight and scaly. I wash my hands dozens of times a day after cleaning up after my kids, wiping noses, changing diapers, cleaning my house... and that only irritates my skin more.I also [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 14:00:00
Supermom Series: THE WORKING MOM
This is my good friend Ali. We went to graduate school together. We are fellow graphic designers. I was in her wedding, she was in my wedding ... what she had to say:*****AROUND THE HOUSEThe biggest helper to keeping my house clean, shopping done, kids cared for, is a daily and weekly schedule: Meals, naps, shopping, cleaning, trips to the dump, play [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 23:45:00
Hypocrisy Redux
You would think that someone who is the the regional director of Homeland Security, Customs, and Border Protection, and the Boston Area Port Director, ... housekeeper from Brazil (and paying far less than the going rate for legal cleaning services ... would know better than to hire illegal immigrants to clean her house. If you thought [more...]
Date: 2008-12-06 16:08:00
last month in my hometown…
Last month when I am in my hometown, I have been invited to my friend’s house for a get together. He has a pretty organize and clean house ... one in the future, if I will own a house. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 07:24:30
Sunday
Our Sunday was spent mostly us sleeping! Although, we all went out early to catch the mass around lunch ... . I actually love it! Because he can do all the domestic things for me;) Seriously, a company man ... and cleaning the house. That’s supposed to be my work! He never really care. He always says, he will take [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 13:17:05
Remaking the Republican Party
Perry De Havilland of the always readable and thinkable Samizdata has a piece about how to stop America's slide into Eurotrash ... and worse he has made handouts to incompetent companies palatable to much of the electorate. Shame ... important to fail. What a sorry state we have let them create. Well Perry says time for some house cleaning [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 16:18:41
Schmancy needs our help
Times is hard, especially for small business owners here in Seattle who missed out on getting a lot of the holiday gift buying traffic because of the ... around but I will be doing one of my own. I am cleaning house. I will be collecting a lot of toys ... ) in the same building as the Moore Theater, just down the block from the Moore's main entrance. It's [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 14:42:49
Elle's mini mobile 'blogging for today...
07:45 Is cold outside of the covers. 08:41 How did I go my whole life having never listened to Dar Williams? Folking it up and cleaning house today! ... On The Internet. Looking forward to cleaning and doing laundry. 15:02 Heading back to Blairstown before [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 04:03:17
Point / Counter-Point
Michael Cook wrote a thought provoking post earlier entitled What Happens to the Early Worm ... last week. It was oversold and many companies could be purchased below their fundamental value ... then I suggest the new market has caused an industry-wide house cleaning. Those that do not belong have seen [more...]
Date: 2008-10-16 19:05:17
sarah cynthia sylvia stout
Inspired by Mama.I love to clean house. I do it at least once a year, if not twice.Okay, seriously? ... know. There's just always something I'd rather be doing than cleaning up my mess.The greatest housecleaning I ever ... . Then I started on the windows, floors, and other people's bedrooms. At the time I thought my desire [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 21:56:00
Hello!
Hello! I am still alive. Spent the last 13 days... ... having a wonderful party with my high school friends Tatin, Stephanie and May .. ... ! The damn bank refused to reverse the charges. ... cleaning the house for the Real Living photo shoot ... shoes, great books, discount furniture, and a lot more! That's it. Just checking in while I catch [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 10:24:59
Holiday Critiques #6
Happy New Year's Eve! I hope everyone has been able to take some time off and enjoy a holiday vacation ... out, but give us nothing concrete on what this all means. I think we need to know why she's hanging ... hits.Babs’ days, once full of grit-making and house-cleaning, just got a lot harder. Her husband’s growing [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 12:39:00
Fantasyland
There is the smallest of chances that I could be preggo and it’s got me dreaming about a fantasy life of being a stay at home mom ... & housewife. Usually the idea of this scares the crap out of me. I’m not really that domestic ... about doing laundry, cleaning the house. I was thinking about how the girls would most likely share [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 17:16:00
Easy Entertaining
Good morning! Thank you so much your comments on my new Etsy shop and my treasures from the fair ... was busy with school, music lessons (we got a flat tire on the way there!) and getting our carpets ... ) Dessert: Apple crisp Beverages: Iced tea Lemonade Rocking chair Thursday -Clean House: Dust Vacuum [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 05:00:01
Script Review – Hitch’s “Short Night”
Let’s go back in time. Imagine with me that you’ve been given the chance to work with Alfred Hitchcock, cinema’s great master of suspense. The job? ... for cinema’s beloved auteur that can stand next to his classics like Rear Window, Vertigo ... thought I’d first do a little New Year’s house cleaning and finish up my series on the Unproduced Scripts [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 01:52:41
On the First Day of Christmas...
On the First Day of Christmas A Wrestling Addicted Mommy gave to me.....A way to keep my house clean!!!I fully admit... I hate to vacuum! ... with it, an extend-able cleaning wand, a squeegee and also an upholstery brush that store easily ... In fact, I hate cleaning period, but it has to be done. With 2 levels in our home that each [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 17:23:00
blessings…
I could go on and on and on about all of the things we are blessed with. Most recently I’ve reflected on my family, and great friends ... a week, plus school, and then coming home and often times making dinner and cleaning the house ... Services Administration. I’m so glad to have a husband that can have the foresight to realize, even [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 23:39:27
Progress & Giveaway
I really am on a tangent here.It consumes my thoughts and conversations and has completely taken over my blog.The House That Cleans Itself. Good book ... go underneath their hook. Next was the kitchen rug. It was a cute red one that looked adorable ... that I needed a rug that cleaned itself, so to speak. So I got this little number.It's woven bamboo [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 16:00:00
House Cleaning Services
Reader Recommendations...Cleaning Ladies/Housekeepers/Housekeeping:Ulrike Gardenier: phone 02456 4028 She lives in Havert, German lady, speaks great English. She has years of experience cleaning [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 20:24:00
Early Saturday
<--- That's about what I look like so early this Saturday morning. To me it's still Friday night, though, because I haven't been to bed yet ... all bent if he didn't compliment me on cleaning the house or doing laundry, etc. I realized how silly ... at that. Except on ceiling mopping day. (That was a joke. Sheesh.) On that day I realized I don't [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 08:37:43
Nani
We were lucky enough to have our Nani from Canada here with us for a few days last week. What a lady! We enjoyed our time together so much ... she stayed with the kids. She was always cleaning and tidying the house her whole stay. One morning she asked me where the window cleaner was, and I admitted that I was embarrassed having her act as our maid [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 04:55:00
How to Prevent Becoming a Slob
Grow up with extreme hoarders. (Bonus points if they yell at you for being messy.) ... t have roaches or ants. Wonder where all of their stuff is. Be the oldest girl in the house and, ergo ... less cleaning.) Upgrade to a bigger space and continue to practice mindful space management. (Train [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 17:37:32
Now Begins Thanksgiving Vacation
I am taking this entire week off. Rather than have to deal with my project and task lists at work, I can concentrate on fun vacation activity: Cleaning the leaves off the lawn. I have too many trees. Avoid shaving as much as possible ... to the .223 stuff. We’ll see how it works out. Clean the house for Thanksgiving guests. Sadly this is a big [more...]
Date: 2008-11-22 17:39:46
Baby Doll Quilts
After seeing my pictures from Christmas, a friend on Facebook asked for a doll quilt for her little girl ... . What do you think - improvised?We've had a cleaning day around the house! Owen went down for a nap ... to have this incredible power over her sisters! She convinced them to help clean up - so they could surprise [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 22:03:00
Taking Care of the Kids - CPSIA Style!
If the government can overreact, so can I! It’s time to clean house and make sure there are no toys, books, ... has been tested; how do I know my children are safe? The only solution is to start cleaning it all out. After ... all for each of my kids. Then there’s the stroller and car seat. Not to mention my other kids’ beds [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 16:30:44
The Original Mr. Clean Has Made His Final Walk Into the Sunset
House Peters Jr., the actor who played the original Mr ... onto the scene in 1958 as the new mascot behind Procter & Gamble's message of household cleanliness ... . I am not one for cleaning, and as I take a look around my apartment, I think that I am characteristically unsuited [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 18:06:42
How to succeed at being yourself
How To Succeed at Being Yourselfby Joyce MeyerIt’s tough to enjoy life when you don’t like yourself ... you can do this while you're driving to work or cleaning house. I also encourage you to look in the mirror and say ... , and your relationships will thrive. Here are a few tips I believe will help you succeed at being yourself. 1. Never [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 08:18:00
It Started with a Chair, I Mean a Churro Craving...
…and it ended up like this.Actually, it kind of started with a few other things, too ... . I entertained the idea of cleaning my house as I looked around at the filth, but then I remembered that I hate cleaning. Grocery shopping? No. Gym? No. Being sad and wallowing? Yes.This is pretty [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 04:12:00
Happy Anniversary to me :)
So I haven’t blogged about how our time has gone since I posted how John and I met on Wednesday ... cleaning the house has needed for some time. We are having an abnormally warm winter, so its like March ... , and we are moving furniture all around. It makes the family room look bare. It is also motivating [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 21:59:38
2009 Goals: Organization and Domestic Stuff
#fullpost{display:inline;}So, as you know one of my goals is to work on being a better housewife and all that crap goes along with that :-) ... for this, so there).With this, I wanted to find an approach to cleaning and keeping my house the haven I desire ... it in excel! Click here to read more on this Snack... Household Cleaning Task ListThis is very [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 22:00:00
Your own estate sale ad...
These photos are some of my recent treasures. This time of year I'm just not sure what to do with all my stuff ... 's, I don't want to many things to clutter our home. I also am in the phase of cleaning house before ... applique quilt. Retro Furn: 50’s red sectional sofa, Funky light fixtures, Round Bed, Blk vinyl sofa [more...]
Date: 2008-07-30 13:03:00
I'm still here
I have not wrapped myself into christmas paper and posted myself far away (and if I had, I would have mailed myself to a warmer place like australia) ... . And you know there is a lot of secrets going on these days. I have not just been cleaning the house and going to work ... now. Now I will pour myself a glass of red wine, light some candles and [more...]
Date: 2008-12-13 08:52:00
Jazz Up Your Walls-Forget Boring Beige
The house was unassuming from the outside. A typical Prince William County brick front colonial with a great lot ... t set to high. Upper level had 4 nice size bedrooms and other than a little clean up the house ... and not someone to come in with a mask and protective clothing to take out mold! Another day of interesting [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 14:34:32
Hardanger heart
Look at this wonderful hardanger heart my niece have made for me. It is so beautiful made and she also have sewed tiny pink beads on it ... ago. Thank you Linda :) I am now cleaning the house for the christmas holidays. My DD surprised me when I came home yesterday. She had cleaned the bathroom all over from floor to roof. I am so happy [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 10:12:00
Grindhouse Barbie in Kill Bill/ 219 Days until Inglourious Basterds
Wow! okay y’all, I have been totally missing my little sister now because she is the only one I can coaxxx into doing these little scenes with me ... :-) but yeah…I literally was cleaning my house in the middle of this video! ***sidenote: QUENTIN - IF YOU NEED A MAID - CALL ME!!!! I AM THE BEST THERE IS…EVEN WAS A MAID AT A HILTON BACK IN THE [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 17:05:21
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