I seem to always have a list of a million things that need to get done at all times. I’m sure I’m not alone in this complaint, and yes, it’s a complaint. It’s not necessarily stuff I want to do, they are all things on the need-to-do list because #1/ I enjoy a somewhat decent looking house and #2/ The cats are filthy little a-holes with zero respect for other people’s property.
Not exaggerating, there is always something that needs washed or wiped up because of them. Last night someone puked around my shoes, and as I was cleaning that up around oh, say, 1:00 a.m., I was actually feeling grateful because they hadn’t puked IN my shoes. They have managed to set the bar very low for my expectations
Today I started to tackle some of the things on my in-my-brain list, and instead threw a bunch of fuck-it’s to the wind and headed outdoors to take care of outside-of-the-house things and get some fresh air and sunshine.
I grabbed the rake and decided to start the fifty-sixth-millionth-time of leaf cleanup. I’ve raked and blown leaves all fall long, and had A Guy who’s lawn team also did about three leaf clean-ups, and yet there were (and are) still leaves in the yard. I left them for insulation around some of the plants, but decided today I was going to get a jump on Spring.
I just ran outside and took a photo because I wanted to revel in my three plus hours of hard work, and now you get to look at it, too. It makes me rail my fists to the heavens and scream aaarrrrgh when I still see leaves in the front yard!
There was still snow in parts of the yard from last week’s March Lioning.
I’m feeling pressured to get ahead of the work because
a/ there’s so much of it and
b/ we’re not having A Guy this year because the prices keep going up and up and up and
c/ I’m really not looking forward to a summer of yard work and
d/ I really don’t like yard work at all and
e/ it could be said that I hate yard work and
f/ summer will be here before I’m ready and I don’t want to spend the nice days doing yard work. I especially don’t want to spend Memorial Weekend doing yard work, hence, my early March start.
I’d much rather do yard work on less ideal days. Today was one of those days.
I still have the whole side yard and back to tackle. Lucky me.
And I have a whole buncha work ahead of me to get this place looking the way I want this summer. Topsoil is needed around the lampost, and that little bistro set was never intended to reside there. I have been thinking about putting in some pretty slabs and creating a little place to sit outside in the front of the house vs. the back. The front porch doesn’t afford the room to do that. All the neighbors hang out in the driveways during the summertime.
There’s also painting the door trim, and powerwashing, and general overall cute-ing up of the entranceway. I’m tired in advance.
So that’s what’s happenin’ at Chez Bang Bang this weekend. I know, another weekend of Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous.