As I've made abundantly clear the past several weeks, we are in the proccess of Spring cleaning in our house. And a lot of progress has been made. One of my big problems is getting motivated to start any task. Especially cleaning, because once I get started, the end product is spectacular. However, even when I get started on some tasks, it takes me a very long time to finish.
My last two sets of responsibilities for this year's Spring cleaning? Vacuum the house, and do laundry. Since we were having people over, I vacuumed the vast majority of the house on Saturday. Except I was running late, so I only did the rooms that people would be in. And I still haven't gotten back to finishing. Even though I left the vacuum in the middle of the bedroom. So I wouldn't forget.
Hubby has been having me do the laundry for a while now. Especially since I sit around on my ass and watch Netflix and On Demand all day. And I'm very good at starting laundry. Just not finishing it. Two days ago, I started a load of clothes around noon. They finally went to the dryer for 20 minutes around seven pm. They got another 20 minutes around nine. Around 11, they still felt damp, so I added a few more minutes. I went upstairs to watch some television while I waited. I went to bed around 4AM. The clothes came out of the dryer around seven pm. 18 hours after I started laundry.
I wasn't always this bad with laundry. At my first apartment, I was always on top of it. It didn't hurt that the washer and dryer were just outside of my bedroom. Not in the basement like ours is now. Of course that same apartment, I had the roommate whose dog would crap at the top of the stairs. Since her bedroom was downstairs, she never noticed. And then she had the gall to get pissed when my other roommate and I started leaving the dog crap on her bed.
Then there was the one Saturday night where I came home wasted slightly inebriated and she had been thoughtful enough to put up the dog gate for like the third time ever. Which I proceeded to get all tangled up in. And then found out that she had invited FIFTEEN PRESCHOOLERS FOR A SLEEPOVER!!! Without telling her other two roommates. And I felt like a horrible person. But not as horrible as the parents should feel for letting their preschoolers spend the night in a college apartment on a Saturday night. For the record, I don't have any children. But I think even those that do will agree that this is an example of horrible parenting.
Neither of those anecdotes really have anything to do with laundry. They just reinforce how much I hated that first apartment. Now if you'll excuse me, I promised to make a desert for tonight. And if I start now, I still wont finish before Hubby comes home. And it has to chill for 6 hours. I'm on a roll.
After a period of being very blah due to very disheartening job hunt, I've decided to get back in the saddle. Not that I haven't started like 8 posts. But this one I'll finish. Or just post anyways. Whichever.
I honestly don't know if people did as I asked, and bought my crap after reading my last post, or if people just found them on eBay all on their own, but our video game crap all sold!! I even got rid of a few of my extra books when I forced them on unsuspecting guests. And we filled an entire trash bag of video games that we either can't play on our new computers (yes in fact they were that old), or hadn't even been installed on the computer since its last reformat. And I finally hooked up the new-to-us behemoth of a computer and Hubby finally got it all fixed up yesterday. We are FINALLY getting organized.
I mentioned long ago that Hubby and I had filed for a marriage license at the DC Courthouse. And I said I would be quick about giving everyone the date. Well that's fixed. It's going to be on MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 2010 AT 1:00 PM. You are invited. Of course there is a limit of 15 people in the courtroom. Parents and siblings (assuming they come) leave only 8 slots. I created an event on Facebook for it, and if you didn't get an invite through that, email me or message me. Not my friend on Facebook? Get on that. Oh, but I'm unsearchable unless you are already my friend. Good luck. By the way, I can honestly say that I hate Facebook. And I've plugged them too many times. Myspace. There. My karma feels balanced. Speaking of things I hate, I originally wrote the "by the way" as 'btw'. Thanks for nothing text messaging, IM, and Twitter. If only I was getting paid to plug these pieces of junk. Of course, by calling them that, I'm assured that no one will ever want me to plug there stuff on here. Which is just as well.
Our wedding is getting more politically apropos. Earlier this year, the US District Court for Northern California heard arguments that Proposition 8 and other bans on same sex marriage are unconstitutional because they violate the 14th amendment to the constitution. Closing arguments for Perry v. Schwarzenegger were heard mid-June and a verdict will be issued in the next few months. The lawyers for the plaintiff used similar arguments that were used in court challenges in Massachusetts and Iowa. This past week, The US District Court in Massachusetts ruled that the federal Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional. Not too fear conservatives, this only applies to Massachusetts. Which already allows gay marriage. It would have to be appealed to the appellate court, and then appealed to the US Supreme Court. Of course our wonderful and very progressive president is the one who sent his lawyers to Massachusetts to defend DOMA. I guess he left the 'not' out on his campaign promise to overturn DOMA. In reality, though, Both Perry v. Schwarzenegger and Gill v. OPM are the best chance for the status quo to be overturned. Sorry. I didn't mean to channel my inner politico. Don't judge me.
For those who oppose my views on same-sex marriage, I have an alternative. Apparently, about a year ago, NOMLM issued the following public service announcement:
For more information, and to learn how to contribute to this organization (if that is your sort of thing) you can go to http://www.giantgayrepellentumbrella.com.
Oh, and my personal reaction to people who feel that I should be on the first-name basis with a probate lawyer (which I am) to continually ensure that hubby and I have as many of the legal rights as our married friends as possible, instead of just being able to say "I do" and get them whether we want them or not?
For the record, I am tired enough to have considered making my own version and post that instead. However, I don't know the song, nor know enough about my webcam to know how to do that. Yes I could figure it out. But its 2:15 AM. And I'm tired. However, if you make your own version and send it to me, I'll reciprocate!
EDIT: fixed a few glaring errors. Probably missed more than I fixed, but whatever. Also, I promised to link to Hubby's blog whenever he posted his post regarding our trek to DC. Well he took his sweet time in writing it, so I had made a post since that. I didn't want to mess up the order of my posts by editing old ones, so I just never linked. Now I will though. Because I like to follow through on my promise. Key word: 'like'. Because it does not say that I always follow through. That would just be setting everyone up for disappointment. Why am I more rambly and less sensical that I was when writing last night? Anyways, his post is located here.
I know that I promised that the last time I posted my crap that was for sale on eBay that I would follow it up with a real post. And I didn't. It's not my fault. I swear. I started a really good post. But then I got off topic, then confused, and even lost. Just as I thought I might be able to salvage it, friends picked me up to see the midnight showing of Eclipse. Don't judge me. Then we went out of town and were completely off the grid for the weekend. So that sums up (and I'm counting it as) the post that I had promised for last Tuesday.
Most of the stuff on the last attempt did not sell. I had one bid on all the items. One. And that was made BEFORE I posted the information on here. C'mon people!! work with me. I can't get rich off this blog without you!! (who am I kidding...I'm just glad its out of the house)
Most of these already have several bids. But, other than the PS2 and Dreamcast games, I'm hoping to make enough to justify not having just gone to GameStop.
And I promise to have a REAL post up as soon as I find a way to get myself out of my funk. I'll tell you all about my weekend off the grid.
