What a difference

So, last week was my first week FLYing. I can say it's made a HUGE difference already. In a matter of a week I got my house to the point where I am comfortable having people stop over at random. I can see my kitchen counters...ALL of them! My bathroom gets a light cleaning every night. And the biggest/best benefit of all is I did not spend all weekend doing laundry! I've been doing 1 load a night since Wed last week, so by time Saturday came I had just 1 load of whites to do and I got that cleaned and put away first thing! This cleared the way for me to get the kitchen in order and get out and have some fun!

On Saturday I went to 7 mile fair with Rick, his Mom, his Grandma, and his Mom's friend. While there I got wind of a bit of drama that may be surrounding our House Warming party this weekend. In a nutshell, both Rick's biological Grandparents will be there in the same house at the same time. There are really bad vibes between the two and they have not seen each other in years...(at least 23). I believe it should go fine, we're all adults, but I still have a bad feeling about it. We will see.

I'm getting excited for the next couple of weekends. This up coming weekend is our housewarming/Rick's b-day party. Then the following weekend is my 10 year (gasp) class reunion. I will be heading up to Hudson on Thursday and not coming back until Monday. I'm looking forward to getting away for a while! Rick and I discussed this weekend and decided it's more important to have some time apart than to go to this reunion together. I will be taking the dogs with me to give him a break from them as well. All in all it should be a good couple weekends coming up!

Changes

I've come to a point in my life where I feel helpless in personal situations that I can't really change at the moment. The inability to make the necessary changes has gotten me down in the past, but I've decided to take a new outlook on this and make some positive changes for the things I can control!

My first change was doing the 100 push-up challenge. I started week 4 and have noticed some improvement already. Not only with the number of push-ups I can do, but also with the way my arms look. To others my arms will still look huge. To me through all that nastyness I can see a bit of muscle definition. It's an improvement for me and I'm excited about it! Imagine what will happen when I move onto real (non-girly) push-ups!

My second change has to do with cleaning. I am horrible at getting motivated to clean. It's a love-hate relationship for me. I love the feeling once it's done and everything is clean and in its place. The hate part is actually doing the work! I feel overwhelmed a lot and sometimes don't even know where to start.

There is one part in my kitchen which particularly annoys the crap out of me. It's where magazines, papers, mail etc pile up. It looks messy and unattractive, but I can't figure out a good solid solution for it. So in my search for solution ideas on how to handle it I came across this site.

I thought I have nothing to lose so why not give it a shot. So I did not shine my kitchen sink yet. Mondays and Tuesdays are late days and I had no bleach at home. I got bleach on my lunch break yesterday dinner is simple tonight so I think I'll be able to do it tonight! I have my fingers crossed. I have done a couple of the other items, one was taking 2 min to clean a hot spot. Well, I was at work when I got the tweet about it so I decided to quick do my desk. Can I say it's amazing how much of a difference 2 min can make???

I'm still trying to find a way to conquer that pile in my kitchen, but I'm sure I'll figure something out.

One more thing about the site...the fly in FLYing is an acronym for Finally Loving Yourself. I love that concept and I'm excited to start this part of my life!

Cheers to positive changes!