I am so on it!

Man I have been doing so awesome! I've done like a million loads of laundry, and I think I have 2 left in the whole apartment. All of the dishes have been done, and we're implementing a "put your dishes in the dishwasher instead of leaving them in the sink" program. Obviously this should have been done forever ago, but we were lazy. Also, the counters have all been cleaned and wiped with bleach wipes.

I am so damn proud of myself.

I am BACK!

So I'm finally feeling SO much better! Thank you antibiotics, cough syrup, and tissues with lotion.

Now that I'm better, I'm playing catch up. Since last night, I have done two loads of dishes, three loads of laundry (about to start another) and I folded three loads of laundry that were sitting in the basket.

Yikes, I was out for too long! And now gonna get back to it!

Missing you..

I have not forgotten about you, dear followers, nor have I forgotten about my resolution! I have been sick recently, with various allergy and sinus issues, and now have a combination of a sinus infection, an ear infection, and borderline pneumonia. I'm feeling pretty awful, obviously, and I haven't really been doing anything around the house. Luckily, new roommate has been helping out a lot with keeping the living room tidy and stuff.

I'll be back on everything once I'm feeling better!

Clean & Organized Calendar by CleanMama

I just printed off one of these neat Clean & Organized calendars from CleanMama.net. I'm super excited to get on it!!

The printable is available here! Good luck!

My biggest nemesis...

Well, I haven't posted in a few days. Thursday night my (18 year old) nephew spent the night. He hasn't been to Texas in over 2 years, so I had to have some time with him! We hung out, watched TV, whatever, but I didn't get any cleaning done.

Yesterday, I posted on my Facebook that my project was going to be one of my biggest nemeses...the coffee table. Now, in some homes, the coffee table is mainly decorative. Cute coasters, some coffee table books, et cetera. In other houses, it's a bit more functional.

In my home, it houses junk. I am legitimately starting to believe our coffee table has junk magnets inside of it, just pulling all the junk to it's surface. Trash, old mail, empty cups that don't make it to the sink, and lots of things that just don't have a "place" of their own. Like I've said before, we have like zero organization.

Well, I got a bad case of the cramps, and ended up curled up on the couch watching TV for most of the night last night.

My plan was to get it finished today, but it's looking like we're going to have a bit of a change in our household. Sweet Man has a friend who is really down on her luck right now, and needing a new place to stay after having some issues with the people she currently stays with. Well, we have an extra room that doesn't really get a whole lot of use. It currently houses two desks (one that matches our bedroom set, one that I picked up from Goodwill for like $10 last year,) some bass guitar amps, and a crapload (scientific measurement) of junk. When we moved into this apartment about a year and a half ago, we did it quickly, and ended up just throwing things into boxes with no real order. Well now, many of those boxes and still mostly unpacked in that bedroom. It's a mess. I realize that pretty much anything in there is probably trash, except for a box or two full of books. But everything else, I mean, if we haven't needed it in the past year and a half, we probably never will.

So this is my big project for the next few days. It's going to be rough, for reals.

Seriously?!

Send me cleaning vibes; I'm going to need them.

The great bookcase debacle of '13

So, as I posted yesterday, I was going to move the bookcase today. Admittedly, this shouldn't be a big feat, because it's only one of those little 3 shelve pieces from Walmart. Read that again: it shouldn't be a big feat. But of course, I'm one of those people who tends to make things harder than they really are.

And now to use one of my favorite ghetto phrases, picked up during my stint in a ghetto high school: "see wha'ha' happen wuzzz..."

I cleared the shelves of all our books and DVDs, of course. I then attempted to pick the bookcase up by the top shelf (mistake #1.) The top shelf was apparently only screwed in at the front, and at the back it just rested on two pegs. The two screws quickly pulled out of the particle board, and I realized that want going to work. So then I picked it up and moved it real quick (I'm weak and it was heavy.) So I tried to push it into the living room. At this point, I did not realize that the bottom wasn't flat, and rested on a leg at the front. I thought it would just slide across the carpet. Well...it didn't. Instead, the screws all pulled out of their weak particle board holes, and it all toppled over like a house of cards. After several failed attempts to fix it, (yes, duct tape was involved,) I finally gave up and tossed the pieces in the dumpster.

So for now, we're continuing with the milk crate chic look we have going on (although I do have an Ikea gift card given to me by the lovely Suburban Mrs. Brenner that will probably be used for a new bookcase.)

Classy.

Other than murdering my bookcase, though, I did do some de-cluttering on our kitchen table, some dishes, and I have now made dinner 2 nights in a row, which probably won't happen again for a few weeks. I also went grocery shopping, which I prefer to do late at night, when Wally World isn't quite as crowded. So I guess it was a semi-productive day. Here's hoping for tomorrow.

1/1/13

Alright, so the point of this blog is to help me stay on top of my new year's resolution: to clean, de-clutter, and organize our home. I'll be totally honest: Sweet Man and I are both kind of messy and lazy (there, I said it.) And it's getting kind of old. I don't like living like this. I want to have a nice, clean home, where I can find things when I need them.

But I hate cleaning. I really, really do. So the blog is to keep me accountable. I want to try to post every day, except maybe Sundays. Because even though I don't work, Sundays still seem to be my lazy day.

So let's get things started!
Honestly, I didn't do much today...I slept real late, and just didn't feel motivated. Staying out half the night last night for New Year's Eve didn't help, I'm sure. I did manage to do some dishes, make dinner (this is an uncommon occurance, since Sweet Man is usually the closing manager at the restaurant, so it's just me at dinnertime.) I also took down our Christmas tree, which made me just a little sad. It also reminded me that I need to get some nightlights...we'd been leaving the tree on at night, and now I won't be able to see when I'm stumbling between the bedroom and bathroom.

The main thing I was planning on doing (and didn't) was to move a small bookcase to the area where the tree was, and round up all of our DVDs and Xbox games to go in it (we'll be needing a bigger bookcase for all of our actual books.) I was also going to be cleaning out some stacked milk crates we've been using as shelves in the living room. I mean, I just graduated from college...I don't think the milk-crates-as-furniture thing will fly anymore.

But alas, I guess it will all wait until tomorrow. Oh, and I changed our air filter, because I read a thing on another blog about changing it on the first of the month, so you always remember. So hopefully I remember on the first of next month. We'll see :)

A bit of an introduction...

Okay, so my new year's resolution for 2013 is to get our home clean and organized, and for some reason I decided to make a blog about it. I guess because of all those housewife blogs I see when I find things on Pinterest. Who knows.

Anyway, I'm going to take this post and do some introductions for myself, the key players in the house, and how it's gonna work!

This is me! My name is Katie, but I usually go by other monikers, such as Bug, Buggy, Little Bug, Bugness, Wifey Bug, and occasionally Punkin Pie Princess Bug. On the derby track, I am known as Dainty Villain. I'm 22 and live in Denton, TX, which is about 45 minutes north of Dallas. As you can see, I am a recent graduate; I got a BBA in Marketing. For the time being, however, Sweet Man (see below) and I share a car. And with his crazy work schedule, I can't really get a job at the moment, which is pretty much what brought on the whole housewife thing. 

I also sometimes look like this. I play roller derby with the North Texas Derby Revolution. It's super awesome and I could go on and on about it, but I won't.

This is my Sweet Man (I won't be using his real name on the blog.) I love him a lot. He is a manager at a privately-owned restaurant, so he works between 50 and 60 hours each week. He also plays bass guitar in a church worship band. As busy as he is, though, we still manage to spend lots of time together.

And this is is Dr. Watson C. Dog! He is a half long-haired, half short-haired miniature dachshund. He is just under a year old right now, with his first birthday later this month. He's adorable and sweet and a momma's boy and also a total pain in the ass. But he's my little guy.

I should also mention that Sweet Man and I are not actually married yet. However, since we've been together for 3 years and living together for 2.5, "boyfriend/girlfriend" just sounds kinda weird, like we're still newly together. He's been calling me his Wifey Bug for a while now, but it's gotten a lot more often since I've taken up with housewife gig (again, because "housegirlfriend" just doesn't sound right.)

We live in a large-ish apartment; it's cheap and therefore a little bit on the crappy side, but still good enough. Right now, we just have way too much stuff for the amount of space we have. Actually, I think it's a mix of a little too much stuff and zero organization. But hopefully that will all be solved soon!