Week 1

The first week of 2012 is in the can. I was out of the gate like a shot, but then laziness and other things got away from me and no real change or progress has been made. It's early yet, I still have hope. I've tried to think of at least one thing I did accomplish this week, and I truly can't. Rather a waste of 7 days.

January PCCX

I'm using the room-by-room track.  This month I'm doing the kitchen and dining room.

Challenges:

• The giant hole in the ceiling.  It's something I'd like to see repaired by the end of the month but I don't know if that's likely.
• Really bad linoleum, coming up in pieces in several places.  There's no hope of repairing that this month and probably not this year.  I should be able to trim back the loose places and at least make it look a little better.
• Difficult to work with cabinets.
• A whole lot of extraneous china and crystal that is never used and much of it isn't even mine.  There is no flinging allowed, so it's just a matter of cleaning it all and reorganizing so it hopefully takes up less space.

I'll spend this week catching up on basics and then head into deep-cleaning and organizing.

Is anyone else working PCCX at all this year?

What's Coming in 2012

Hopefully good things for everyone.  More specifically, I have some plans.

I'm going to (try to) send out regular challenges to the PCC group, beginning today with a resurrection of the 21 Days of Clutter series.  I'm also planning a few PCCX reminders each month because I want to actually go through it for a change.  I'll get some posts and emails scheduled in advance so I don't forget or skip it; hopefully that will help with my follow-through.

I have a few other thoughts brewing about other things to do, I just haven't decided which ones will apply to this group/blog.  What are your plans for the year?

Not Much to Say

I don't have a lot to say about December.  I quit tracking anything on the 18th.

There was Christmas of course.  Baking got put off until the last minute, but it did get done (unlike the last 2 years).  Packages for out of state friends and family went out at the last second also and cost a fortune to make it before Christmas.  Things generally went pretty well; the kids made out like bandits as usual.  They each had at least $70 cash/Target gc to spend when all was said and done, on top of presents under the tree.

Then I kind of took the last week off.  Christmas was over but it wasn't 2012 yet, and psychologically I wanted to start anything new on the 1st, no earlier.  So I didn't do much of anything besides get all the Christmas decorations and everything else boxed up nicely.  Now if Chris would just get the boxes out of the dining room...

Just to be moderately consistent:

18 - days tracking points
73,955 - points earned
4,109 - average points per day tracked
659,218 - total points earned in 2011
1 - injury (Chris put a knife through his finger unwrapping a toy.)
3 - dr. appts.
8 - Christmas events
11 - days off school
5 - UIL ribbons and medals won
1 - movie premiere (Sherlock Holmes was really good.)
$216.34 - total cost of Christmas gifts and cards (including shipping and postage)
8,067 - emails deleted
3 - books read
12 - blog posts

So there's the last month of 2011.  It wasn't a stellar year, but we all made it through to the other side.  Here's to 2012. *clink*

Pay no attention to the blog behind the curtain

I got a new app to port from my iPad and I've clearly gotten in over my head as I have no idea what I'm doing.

Bah - November Recap

There's very little I can do right lately.  Not only did I fail to report progress or lack thereof leading up to our Thanksgiving visitors' arrival, I didn't actually do much of anything.  We managed to make the place slightly less embarrassing, but that's about the best I can say.  Oh well, they weren't here to see the house, and they didn't spend a lot of time here anyway.  It was a good visit and a great meal - other than the cherry pie taking a header off the dessert table.  Something has to go wrong, right?

So, about the month of November...I never did an October recap and it's certainly too late now.  It's almost too late for November for that matter, but I'll do it anyway, because I feel like it. :)

10 - days I actually tracked points
4 - days over 4,000 points - all of which were the weekend (Fri-Mon) before Thanksgiving
46,880 - points earned all month
2 - high school football games attended - 1 over an hour away
2 - major video game releases
2 - movie premieres attended
2 - out-of-town visitors
19 - blog posts - none of them here because I suck like that
6,153 - emails and RSS posts read and deleted
0 - birthdays to celebrate
3 - dr. appointments
3 - books read
7 - school and church functions
$26.49 - earned from rebates and surveys

That's about all I can come up with right now.  Yay November.

T-23

As usual, I start something and then it's 4 days later and nothing else has been done.  So, Thursday I did start in the bathroom, but I didn't get very far.  I dealt with about 2 square feet in the back corner between the toilet and the tub.  My "after" looks like a normal person's "gee, this hasn't been cleaned in months, I'd better get on it."

In my (minimal) defense, a large part of that is issues we inherited with the house, like lousy caulking that won't come clean no matter what I do, and a floor that is a project unto itself.  There were 3 layers of linoleum in there when we moved in.  The bottom one is cemented to the wood floor and after trying to scrape it up I gave up about a foot into the door.  There's no removing that stuff short of a sander or new planks.  Above that was another layer, and above that linoleum tiles.  The tiles were relatively easy to get up, and the middle layer only a little more difficult.  This back corner had never been finished though, so I had two layers to remove.  I have tiles I bought years ago but don't know if they will help or if I can put them down any better than this bottom layer is.  Anyway, while I was down there I cleaned the bottom of that side of the toilet and tried to clean that seam between tub and floor and about then my back and knees decided there would be no more of that.

The weekend blew by uselessly.  Today I'm back on it...as soon as I eat something.