This place sure cleans up nice

[cjsmith]

I'm a bit tired and my feet are pounding but this place looks almost presentable.

It's stunning how I can get all bent out of shape over the simple act of having a few coworker-pilot friends over. I SEE THESE PEOPLE EVERY DAY for goodness' sake. Every single one of 'em is a pilot except M's wife, so we'll have things to talk about (and I'll make sure she doesn't go ignored). Yet I'm going nuts over how the place looks and will they have a good time and what the blazes am I possibly going to feed them.

[LJ-CUT TEXT="to do lists, done and not yet done"]

Here's my day so far:
1. Check on the status of the builds at work
2. Scrub the backpack the cat puked on, and rig a way to hang it to dry
3. Clean up all the cat puke spots on carpet
4. Clean up the place jackiecat had Intestinal Difficulties, fortunately on linoleum
5. Check on the status of the builds at work
6. Tidy the kitchen a bit
7. Lunch
8. Throw the escape artist cat into quarantine and let the cleaners in
9. Dump out the cat box and fill with fresh litter
10. Reorganize the ugliest section of one living room bookshelf, making it... still ugliest but a whole lot better
11. Reorganize a whole bunch of stuff in the cat quarantine room, making it... still ugly but a whole lot better
12. Throw away a lot of papers, calendars, and a stunning pile of air navigation charts from several years ago
13. Check on the status of the builds at work
14. Feed the cats, wave goodbye to the cleaners
15. Take out some of the garbage (the cleaners also did some)
16. Prune all the dead stuff off the flowers out front
17. LJ BREAK! Gawd my FEET. Ow.

Still to do:
1. Clean up (file, toss, or hide) all the papers lying on every available surface in the family room ("my office")
2. Pack down the contents of one upstairs bookshelf enough to get all my language study stuff actually *on* the shelf instead of on the floor
3. Hang up / put away laundry
4. Try to come up with anything to do to the cat quarantine room to make it not so ugly
5. Run a load of dishes

Ah, here comes Rob. Back from a flying lesson. Maybe HE'LL know what to feed them. :-)

Comments

[layer.livejournal.com]

old sectionals? is it too late to save them for me?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Not at all. They're in paper-only recycling and I can pull 'em out. How many do you want?

[layer.livejournal.com]

one of all the different ones you have?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I've got the whole pile for you & I can give it to you, um, next time we're in the same county. Tuesday evening's safety seminar perhaps?

[layer.livejournal.com]

sounds like a plan. can you still do dinner beforehand? thing starts at 7. i'm thinking 5:30ish, castro street... though need to check with murray too.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That sounds great! Anything but fish/seafood. :)

[layer.livejournal.com]

or you could just pull them all out and i can sort through. the ones i don't need for my mural would make great wrapping paper.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was thinking wrapping paper too but I never actually DO it. 'Cept occasionally for my bro. A single chart subscription will keep his gifts wrapped in perpetuity.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I forgot to give you these!! They were sitting in my car the whole time. (They still are.) Dang!

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

add to your list:

1) Breathe in
2) Breathe out
repeat.

you feed them food. pick some things you like (cheese!!! always a good one), put them out where they can get to it.

as for the cleaning and stuff, i find that friends never see the crap that i see. and if you get enough people in a room, it's usually not visible anyway.

i think you've earned some "lay down with feet up" time. be GOOD to you and your footsies, m'kay?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I like that advice. Breathing is *good*.

We fed 'em pizza. Guess what? They didn't mind! WOOHOO!