The OSCAR Project

Long weekend

This post is actually for Saturday through Monday.  Long weekends usually are filled with a mix of the predictable and planned, and the spontaneous.  Here's what we hope to accomplish.  I'll let you know how it goes on Monday night. :)

Today's Projects:

ORGANIZE: Paper piles in the living room sorted into two boxes - work and home.  We'll start there. Still in progress!

SIMPLIFY: Bin up all of the winter footwear.  Get out the summer shoes and sandals that still fit this year.  Toss/give away/keep what is garbage/will be of use to another family/what will fit in future years.  Still in progress!

CLEAN: Take everything off the front porch.  Sweep.  Wipe off bins.  Chuck stuff.  Put away the scattered bits and pieces.  Made major headway here.  Still lots to do!

AESTHETICS: Move boxes out of the living area that don't belong there.  One of them contains Christmas books/magazines/CDs/DVDs.  Yep, it's more than time to move that baby.  Done!

RELAX: Old cartoons, favourite books, working outside in what will be the garden space this year.

 

FAMILY PROJECT: Vehicle clean up!  Steam clean upholstery.  Wipe the dash/door panels/door handles etc.  Clean windows.  Finish cleaning car seats (that got jump started earlier in the week).  Done!

 

Our work beast.  

 

It's exhausting watching people work. :)

 

Another very grubby truck.  Husband in background is much less grubby looking than usual.  Much easier to clean vehicles than fix them, methinks.

 

The gear required for cleaning out vehicles might be different if you are 4.

Playing dust tag isn't as fun alone.  It's much better to try to convince your sister(s) to join in.  Again.

 

Re-emerging from the van after a little bit of self prescribed quiet time.

 

I'm not sure what day it is...

Today's episode is brought to you by the letter "c" and the number "12".  "C" being for confusion, and "12" being for the number of days since I posted a project.  Oh dear.

I don't have any official photos to accompany this OSCAR post, so I'll just throw in a few random ones instead. ;)

The Projects

ORGANIZE:  The recycling.  It sort of counts.  Not itself though, we did that.  We sorted and counted all of the recycling that has been piling up in the yard throughout the winter.  Once the snowbank it was frozen into melted, we were able to see the mountain of cans, bottles, juice boxes, and milk containers that would yield $131.20.  Plus, the yard looks SOOOO much better without that pile of clear plastics bags.

 

 

SIMPLIFY:  Dwayne rehung the clothesline.  This time, instead of going across the back yard, where I'd have to troop out there with shoes on and a heavy basket of wet laundry, it is anchored to the side of the house right outside the backdoor.  No shoes required.  No major treks to the line.  No need to wonder if the kids are tormenting one another, I can see and hear them from the back step.  Most excellent!

 

 

CLEAN:  The seemingly gazillion loads of laundry that have been accumulating the past couple of weeks.  The interim washing machine keep leaking and error coding, generally being a nuisance and wreaking havoc, and wasting a colossal amount of time.  It shouldn't take an hour and half to do ONE load of laundry.  Then there were the extremely loud clanking noises.  Thanks to Uncle Ian and Joan, a washing machine part made it's way to us from the U.S. (the store wouldn't ship to Canada) so our old machine (which isn't that old) could be fixed, and the clanker chucked outside.  We now have a quiet, efficient, properly behaving washing machine again.  Fixed washing machine + convenient clothesline + warm weather + strong winds = lots of clean, dry, soft, yummy smelling laundry.  I like that math. :)

 

 

AESTHETICS: An essential oil diffuser has been added to our household.  I'm really enjoying it.  Aside from filling the air with great scents, it also provides an optional little rainbow LED light show.

 

 

RELAX!:  I'm feeling restless today and am having a hard time relaxing for some unknown reason.  For the moment, I'm drinking milk and blogging.  I'm also searching for a new book to start for some bedtime reading.  "Girl With A Pearl Earring" wasn't my cup of tea.  I'm thinking something adventuresome or comical would fit the bill.  Perhaps "Elephant Bill" or a "Calvin and Hobbes" collection.