Snail Spirals

I've done a total of 8 rounds on the urchin shawl in the past three days. Pitiful, but when you consider all the other things I did, not bad. (Especially as each round is now 700 stitches.)

What have I been doing? Well, the house is now on the market, and is available for viewing tomorrow. YIKES!!!

Since Friday, I have:

• Cleaned both bathroms. CLEANED them. Wiping off the baseboards-dusting the tops of the lights-cleaning behind the toilet-scrubbing the floor kind of cleaning.
• Re-caulked along the tub in both bathrooms.
• Re-caulked along the kitchen counters.
• Washed every window in the house, inside and out.
• Picked up all toys from the livingroom and found alternate places for them, either in Emma's room or in the blanket chest. Weeded out some that she doesn't play with.
• Collected all Emma's books from all over the house and put them neatly back on her bookshelves.
• Collected all my books from all over the house and put them neatly back on my bookshelves. Shaun can do his own books.
• De-cluttered the catch-all bookshelves in the living and dining rooms.
• Went through all Emma's clothes and weeded out all the ones that are too small.
• Loaded, ran, emptied, and partially loaded the dishwasher.
• Four loads of laundry
• Vacuumed all the livingroom furniture, even into the cracks.
• Did a preliminary carpet vacuuming, in preparation for the real vacuuming and carpet-washing that will take place tonight.

In fairness, I must say that Shaun cleaned the whole kitchen, is doing his laundry, and is working on finishing the deck. He dug a giant hole for the footing of the steps yesterday, and laid the cement blocks and installed the stringers today.

Still to do? Too much.

• Sand, spackle, and repaint two small areas above the propane heater where the wall settled slightly and cracked a bit. It was like this when we moved in.
• Touch-up paint as needed throughout the house.
• Finish the deck (it just needs railings).
• Vacuum and wash the carpet.
• De-clutter the office.
• Take all recycling in.
• De-clutter the garage (which won't be bad once the recycling is gone.)
• Mow the grass.
• Put all flowerboxes under the deck so people can't see last summer's dead petunias.
• De-clutter the top of my dresser.
• Organize the hall and bedroom closets.
• Make sure all laundry is either clean and put away or in a laundry basket in the closet.
• De-clutter the divider counter between the kitchen and dining room.
• Dust everything, including the ceiling corners.
• Clean the cat box.
• Make sure the fridge is presentable. Wipe down its shelves.
• Wipe down the pantry shelves.
• Make sure the area under the kitchen sink is presentable.
• Make sure my fiber closet is presentable.

I'd better stop writing, go home, and get to work!