Fall Cleaning

Here we are, with another Monday to look forward to! Mike and I had a very productive weekend. We did a bit of shopping. I got a couple new sweaters, a cute skirt from American Eagle, and fab pair of Hush Puppies boots. We made up for the shopping spree on Sunday by working out butts off. Ok, I just checked and my butt is still there. It just felt like we worked our butts off.

What was supposed be a cleaning binge to prepare for Thanksgiving turned out to be a good Fall cleaning that no one but us will appreciate. We went to town de-cluttering the mud room. Then we decided to steam clean the rug back there. Since it is the only carpet we have in the entire house, we figured it would be worth it. Mike went over every inch a couple of times and it looks so much better. The refrigerator and stove got thoroughly cleaned, too. Everything is sparkly for our guest of honor Tom (the Turkey). Mike did his magic on the bathroom -- thank God he is such a good honey -- which also looks much better.

We got the carpet pads down under the area rugs in the living room. Though it seems like that should be easy, we had to move all the furniture from one side of the room to the other so we could lift the rug, put the pad down, and trim it. Then the furniture went back and we repeated the process for the other side of the room. It is good to have all that done...

After all that, we did the food shopping rounds. I am so glad we hit the store yesterday. The herbs were thinning out and we got one of the last vanilla ice creams! We should be pretty well prepared for the big day.

Tonight will be mopping the floors. This much-needed task will leave me tired but it is worth it.

I am thinking this post is a little hum drum, but I suppose they can't all be exciting...

Oh, hey! There is more! We signed up for Second Life accounts on Saturday. It was pretty interesting. I am Svelte Svenska and Mike is Mikhe Svenska... We are still learning how to manipulate our avatars, but don't plan for this to be a nightly thing. Famous last words, huh?

Toodles!