Just Another Manic Monday

Remember that song from the 80's made popular by the Bangles? Sing along now....

Six o'clock already

I was just in the middle of a dream

I was kissin' Valentino

By a crystal blue Italian stream

It's just another Manic Monday

I wish it was Sunday

Cause that's my funday

An I-don't-have-to-run day

It's just another Manic Monday

I don't know about Sunday being my 'funday'...in general now it's crazy busy. But, Monday's are definitely manic at our house. I woke up this morning to a house that was filthy dirty. Not ONE room clean. It seems to be our weekend habit to totally trash the house over the weekend. I generally don't feel like cleaning up on a Sunday, because frankly, it's everyone else's day off...why should I have to work? So, we generally thrash the house and then on Monday when everyone leaves for work/school, I get to clean house. Today I had more to do than just clean. I had some errands to run, laundry piled up to the ceiling, bills to pay, and then the cleaning. On Monday's I generally don't do a deep cleaning. Not today. The entire house needed a DEEP DEEP cleaning. Just a quick pick up of the main rooms, vacuum, and mop the kitchen floor: Not going to do work for today. This morning I got a call from my sister in law telling me that her huby, Mike and his work buddy needed a place to stay for tonight. So I added to my list: cleaning Abby and Jake's room, washing sheets, and scrubbing the bathroom downstairs. We love to have Mike stay with us, so down to the dungeon I trodded. It wasn't a big deal, or shouldn't have been if my 11 year old daughter wasn't such a stinkin slob. It took me an hour and entire kitchen tall garbage bag before her room was clean. I was having a full conversation with myself so I could express my frustrations about the mess outloud! To add to my Monday Mania, we have been re-finishing our kitchen cupboards. The kitchen has been torn apart literally for 2 weeks now. Today we went to pick up the fronts of the cabinets so that we could finally hang them and hide the messy interiors of the cabinets again. We go to pick them up, bring them inside and THEY DON'T MATCH! The cabinet boxes are an entirely different shade than the fronts! UGH! Now, instead of a light at the end of a messy tunnel, I foresee another week before the cabinet fronts are hung and new hardware is installed.

I have been going non-stop since 7 am. I still have tons of laundry to fold and coupons to clip. No, I haven't showered today. It's just another Manic Monday. And tomorrow will be a Trying Tuesday....