Lent: Day 6 the slumber party

I didn't eat much today. Salad, garlic bread, and cupcakes (I lost count). I had one slice of pizza. It was not worth the cheat. Oh well.
The slumber party is going well but I won't do it again.

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Lent: Day 3 Ash Wednesday

I didn't go to church today. Yeah sue me! My menstrual cycle is crazy and I didn't want to bleed out in church. My headache is still here, but much better. Hopefully in a few days it will be gone. I had th usual breakfast and lunch, fruit. For dinner I had cereal. I love cereal, especially ones with marshmallows. I have been craving salty things and i have been trying to avoid them. I didn't add salt to anything I ate but i did have a some Gardettos. Those things are really salty because i feel like a ballooned. My rings dont fit and my shoes feel tight. So I guess no more salty foods.
  I was out and about today buying Samantha's birthday presents (DVDs and a very special hair cut she has been begging for).  I think she looks really cute. I found an exercise program to do every day and I started walking again. I also signed up for Bay to Breakers. I can't wait to go. I didn't cuss once today. Of course there wasn't any sex or soda either. Facebook was more of an outside source today. Mostly sending pictures of Samantha's hair or news feeds from other sites while I was reading them.

I guess thats it. I haven't been blogging an regular stuff. Maybe I'll do that later. I'm gonna have some tea now, running around all day made me super thirsty.

xoxo,
Lisa

P.S. Samantha's hair. She loves the 60s and 70s hair styles. She chose a 60s mod style. She likes it.

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March is Spring Cleaning Month

Picture is from this article on Spring Cleaning. Read it!

  Every March & October is Spring/Fall cleaning. I would always make a list of what exactly i wanted to do & get done. Most of the time I would do a half ass job. This year will not be the case. I have a new list and a new plan to get things done. We'll see how it goes.
 I did a lot of cleaning last fall. Each month I tossed out 20 items. Unfortunately it wasn't enough. I still have a lot of stuff because I have been a serious pack rat. So i will do something similar through out the month of March. Each day I will either reduce, reuse, or recycle 2 items. Sounds easy, but i am sure it will not be anywhere near easy.
 I have broken my cleaning into 2, two week cleaning cycles. I have 8 rooms in my Townhouse. This is not including other parts of my home/property that will be cleaned. I will divide my home by floors. Upstairs (3 bedrooms, full bath, storage closet, linen closet, water & heating closets) will be week one & three. Downstairs (kitchen, dining room, living room, 1/2 bath, 2 closets, patio) will be week two & four.  I will use one day for each room. The linen closet & water/ heating closets i will do the same day The same goes for the closets & bath downstairs. I will probably take more time on the kitchen & living room since that is where we spend most of our time.
Today is the day I sit and plan it all out. I use Google Calendar to organize what days I will clean what rooms and a way to remind myself of some things i would normally over look while cleaning. I will be totally honest- I HATE CLEANING, and I suck at it, but someone has to do it. I am off to a good start and It's not even March.

This is what I end up doing. 

On another note: March will be starting another kind of "cleaning" for me. Ash Wednesday is March 2 & Lent starts March 7. For those of you who are not Catholic & do not know what Lent is click Here. I will go into more detail on the topic later this week.