A few more things to mark off the list

Got very little done today due to cramps. Again. Grr. Did manage to steam clean the sofa and a few sports on the carpet in the living room and foyer. I finished ironing the living room curtains and even the fancy lace ones in the master bathroom. Ugh. Remind me never to buy lace cut out curtains again, though technically these were a house warming gift.

Waiting on Josh to finish a few projects so I can begin the deep cleaning. At this point, there's no point - he's tracking in dirt, tools are all over the place and there are piles in the way. He's been put on alert that he's to finish these by Monday evening. Then Tuesday & Wednesday, all we do is clean and go to the market. Thursday we'll finish any little tidying job before they get here (likely need to vacuum and dust, again) and call it good.

And a little bit more . . .

Managed to move one of the bookcases from the living room, back to the home office. Don't ask. I can move mountains on a good mad. Re-arranged all of the books from that bookshelf and roughly half in the foyer. Then I dusted and wiped down everything in the home office and re-organized a bit in there. Still a bit more to do in there, but the home office is the least important area. Then into the Master Bedroom, picked out about a garbage bag worth of stuff to ditch. Mostly old clothes that are of no value to a thrift store. Found a stash of old holiday cards and ditched those, too.

Update: Moved the little white table with my cookbook collection into the dining room, then with Josh's help, we moved the two bookcases out of the living room and re-organized those books. Moved the Shinto Shrine into the foyer, as well. I like the changes - opens up the living room and makes it cleaner looking. The foyer is a little bit crowded but I'm finding it very hard to care, as its always been incredibly useless. Filling it with books and family pics is as good a purpose as any.

Soon, I'll be off to the bath for a nice long hot mineral salt soak.

In completely unrelated news, I made a few deals on my excess drakes (KC/Runner mixes and Swedes) in exchange for 3 little brooder/tractors. Should work great next breeding season, each lady will have her own setup, complete with mini-coop and mini-pen. I even have a place scoped out in the West Wing of Bunhalla. Unfortunately, the swap isn't going to happen until after the in-laws visit. Oh well. It will be a huge relief to get the freeloaders off onto new adventures in my friend's Freezer Camp.