Plan A, Plan B, Plan A again?

The Good: One of the strays we feed was taken to the shelter or wherever by another neighbor who's been feeding her. Poor Tundra could barely see and her ear and head always looked scabbed and bloody and generally chewed up. She occasionally showed up to our doorstep bleeding all over the place. Our front steps look like a freaking crime scene with blood splatters cuz poor Tundra would shake her head so much. But I guess this neighbor didn't like the crime scene that was left on their patio today and so they took her in. I imagine they're the ones who occasionally clean up Tundra when she got too bloody. I'm relieved. We wanted to take her in, but I don't think Mom's car ready yet.

The Bad: We still feed two to three strays (three VERY rarely), two of which we want to take to the shelter before winter (or California's version of it) comes. So far we're just getting the odd cool day in the midst of decent weather and once in a while a little rain. Apparently tomorrow's supposed to rain and be COLD (anything below 60 F is COLD in Cali :-P ). Maybe Praline and Snickers' owners will keep/let them in tonight and for the day, but the downside is they show up on our doorstep the next day STARVING. Seriously, if I were a truly violent person and not just all bark, I'd beat that stupid woman for "rescuing" those cats and then expecting her idiot child to be responsible for them.

ANYWHO!

The Good: I was productive today-yesterday....in the hours after waking up and before going to bed (which I still haven't done yet).

The Bad: I didn't clean what I'd planned to, well not all of it.

Woke up two hours later than planned. Now if I'd woken up and hopped in shower and got to work, it wouldn't have been a problem. But I woke up to a phone call, and was on that call for a lil while. Okay, it was Dad and he and I don't do little chats. quarter to eight and I was like, "okay, hop in shower, make bed (clean sheets), start laundry, toss trash out, make food, and sit down for shows." Reading all that now makes me think that was kind of an unrealistic goal to begin with. :-P But anywho, I figured after shows I'd go back to work and clean the bathroom (something I can do without waking Mom), I even swept the bathroom floor (it gets practically covered in powder cuz we love our Shower to Shower powder) before I hopped in shower so it wouldn't be yucky to clean later after the steam mixed with the powder.

Sweeping took slightly longer than I liked cuz I was thorough and lots of little nooks to sweep around. :-P Shower took longer than I liked cuz I started planning out the night and my autopilot slows down when I think too much. :-P Got out and made my bed, which took longer cuz I was watching one of my shows while making it and had to keep both the cats off while I changed the sheets. :-P They're not as helpful as they think they are. Laundry sorting and starting takes longer when you only do it during commercial breaks. :-P All said and done the plan to eat while watching shows was thrown out the window. Ah well... Called Dad (since our last call was ended due to dead blue tooth and he called while I was bed making or something and missed his call). Shame on me. I mean I KNOW he and I would end up talking too long. I could have and should have said I'd make it quick and let Dad go early. By the time I got off with him, it was too late to start the bathroom cleaning as Mom would be up and needing in to get ready (she wakes up at like 3a.m. or a little later).

New, new plan or was it new old plan. I would dust the dining and living room before she woke, then the second she was up and around I'd vacuum the whole house before she started work at 5a.m. ... If I moved fast I could do it. I wonder if houses that get cleaned daily or even just weekly require less time to clean. :-P So, I went to the kitchen and did the usual "she's in the shower so rush to get her stuff ready" stuff done real quick. I was quick but she woke early. Hmmm... Fine, I'll dust now, vacuum later (after I wake today).

Started dusting but kept coming across stuff I HAD to put away. So some of that proper sorting and organizing got done, but it made what was gonna be a quickie dusting job take longer. :-P You know what else slows ya down? Breaking a glass/crystal candy jar lid. Yep. Fun. So now I HAVE to sweep to make sure there's no glass. Then cuz I'm not sure that's enough I HAVE to swiffer sweep with floor cleaner to make sure I pick EVERYTHING. So at least the dining room/area floor got completely cleaned.

So.... Good, I did a more thorough cleaning job on the dining room area than planned. Bad, I still have to dust the living room and vacuum the house AND my back's sore from all the heavy lifting I did (boxes of books and four 5-gallon water bottles). But I was most definitely productive! As it's 11:30ish a.m. now and I've got a few lil things to do before I can go to bed to "nap"/sleep for the day, I dunno how productive I'll be tonight as I imagine I'll be waking up super late. But we'll see. Maybe I'll find another late night task I can do to be productive.