underestimated...
I GROSSLY underestimated my time frame when I assumed a weekend was all I would need to clean out my studio. For me to assume I could start cleaning it over the weekend was laughable really.
This weekend was an oddball one in that my husband had a major migration and relocation to orchestrate and lord over all day and late into the evening Friday, the better part of the day Saturday and a couple hours on Sunday. The boys expect to do things on the weekend, things that do not include our regular stops (grocery store, Walmart, Barnes & Noble, craft store/lbs/lys) during the week. So to keep things interesting, we went to dinner, just the three of us. Roly Poly Sandwiches was highly entertaining for the dorito hazed almost two year old, highly annoying for the "I only want my tuna outside of the tortilla, and with a fork, and then I will make a HOOGANTIC* ball of tortilla and eat it whole without the tuna" four year old, and highly draining for the thirty year old mom. We stopped by Hobby Lobby and the mall playground after dinner. We made mudpies in the backyard too. What a mistake that was...you should see the back porch. What was I thinking at the time? I don't know. Man, did we have fun though. I love mudpies. Good times.
No mommy reprieve to speak of this weekend meant no child free time to start in on the abyss of my studio. It is one thing to get through everyday housework while battling four additional, very busy, little hands. It is quite another when trying to sort through boxes of twenty year old Intellivision cartridges and systems**, art supplies I never knew I owned, art supplies I ordered entirely too many of***, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. In any event I have spent the last two days working on the studio and still have a ways to go...probably through Friday based on the current rate at which I am able to get through things. Oh to have a pause button...
Tomorrow I have to catch up on housework, email and all my daily blogs. My tools arrived from Rio Grande and I am absolutely D Y I N G to play with them BUT I can't until the studio is straight! I should be in there right now...as soon as I'm done here I will set my timer for twenty minutes, get through what I can get through in twenty minutes and then go to bed where I will dream of a clean studio and new toys to play with in that clean studio. It will only be a "clean" studio for about thirteen seconds after I get everything set up properly, but that's how it should be right? I thought so.
* HOOGANTIC is Logan's most favorite word these days. Everything is "hoogantic" and if it isn't, well, it should be.
** Know anyone in the market for Intellivision games or systems? I put a crap load up on ebay with LOW starting bids. These are all the duplicates left over from Lynn and his sister's collections. I'll just be glad to have them out of the house...one less box of stuff to move around. Click here to view auctions.
*** In the very near future I will be adding a supplies section to my site. Keep your eyes peeled for more details.
This weekend was an oddball one in that my husband had a major migration and relocation to orchestrate and lord over all day and late into the evening Friday, the better part of the day Saturday and a couple hours on Sunday. The boys expect to do things on the weekend, things that do not include our regular stops (grocery store, Walmart, Barnes & Noble, craft store/lbs/lys) during the week. So to keep things interesting, we went to dinner, just the three of us. Roly Poly Sandwiches was highly entertaining for the dorito hazed almost two year old, highly annoying for the "I only want my tuna outside of the tortilla, and with a fork, and then I will make a HOOGANTIC* ball of tortilla and eat it whole without the tuna" four year old, and highly draining for the thirty year old mom. We stopped by Hobby Lobby and the mall playground after dinner. We made mudpies in the backyard too. What a mistake that was...you should see the back porch. What was I thinking at the time? I don't know. Man, did we have fun though. I love mudpies. Good times.
No mommy reprieve to speak of this weekend meant no child free time to start in on the abyss of my studio. It is one thing to get through everyday housework while battling four additional, very busy, little hands. It is quite another when trying to sort through boxes of twenty year old Intellivision cartridges and systems**, art supplies I never knew I owned, art supplies I ordered entirely too many of***, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. In any event I have spent the last two days working on the studio and still have a ways to go...probably through Friday based on the current rate at which I am able to get through things. Oh to have a pause button...
Tomorrow I have to catch up on housework, email and all my daily blogs. My tools arrived from Rio Grande and I am absolutely D Y I N G to play with them BUT I can't until the studio is straight! I should be in there right now...as soon as I'm done here I will set my timer for twenty minutes, get through what I can get through in twenty minutes and then go to bed where I will dream of a clean studio and new toys to play with in that clean studio. It will only be a "clean" studio for about thirteen seconds after I get everything set up properly, but that's how it should be right? I thought so.
* HOOGANTIC is Logan's most favorite word these days. Everything is "hoogantic" and if it isn't, well, it should be.
** Know anyone in the market for Intellivision games or systems? I put a crap load up on ebay with LOW starting bids. These are all the duplicates left over from Lynn and his sister's collections. I'll just be glad to have them out of the house...one less box of stuff to move around. Click here to view auctions.
*** In the very near future I will be adding a supplies section to my site. Keep your eyes peeled for more details.
posted by Amy at 8:55 PM
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