Abbie's Real Life Blog

August!

I am trying to fill up the rest of the summer weekends with different summery things to do.  I have planned a float trip, summer concerts, movies, little road trips, big road trips, and even a movie night at my house that will require lots of cleaning and organizing for non-family members to be allowed in my house.

I got a big start on this yesterday when my adorable sister-in-law came over to my house to help me clean out my office.  The office has looked like a pit of hell since last summer.  You may remember that it has been the focus of multiple failed Quarterly Resolutions since then.  It has been a stagnant mess, though.  The other room is the one where I continually dump things, so it has grown and continued to fester as a mess throughout the year.  After we’d made significant progress on the office, I did enter and start some work on the other room (the-room- with-the-red-couch, as I refer to it; it’s basically a den without a TV or any kind of stimuli other than a reading lamp, but it’s the only furniture in the house that the dog is allowed on).  Anyway, the office is now CLEAN, which is amazing.  My brother put up shelves and I rearranged pictures on the walls, and it looks totally different and so much larger.

I have quite a lot of other projects that need doing as well, and I’m going to try to spend a lot of time this week and next week getting some stuff done that I wouldn’t otherwise do.  Not that the movie night people will even care or notice, but there’s something about having a deadline that works for me.  A similar event (inviting people to my house is an event- it never happens) motivated me to get a ton of stuff done around the house a couple of years ago.  I mean, landscaping was involved.  This is the way I work.

In other news, I spent a big part of the weekend watching Rome and working on photos while maybe perhaps spending too much time playing Sid Meier’s Railroads (which required a lot of patience on my part because the game crashes every few minutes after I’ve reached a certain level.  I think it’s to do with my 64 bit machine.)  I got caught up to the beginning of July on the 365 photos, which is very good.  I put up part one of them on the photo blog here and I will post the rest of them later today.