taking time for home

for more than ten years i neglected everything in order to get the job done, the last four years were the worst, the car never got a check up on time and needs it now, the home grew into a cluttered mess because i never made time to really sort through stuff and clean well, the body was neglected most of all with my last medical and dental check ups at least a few years old if not further in the past... there was always more work and never enough time... the only thing i made time for was fun, which kept me sane - softball, 5k runs, game nights, and the occasional theatre or concert or movie... personal time for health, car, or home just passed without any...

so this weekend the home got attention, a lot of attention... bags of trash went to the dumpster and the carpet in every room was triple vacuumed and is ready for carpet cleaning scheduled for this afternoon... the place owes us two cleanings, so it's free... everything's gotta be fre now, which is why the body and car will wait, but what i can do free i will do free (daily exercise comes next and yeah, more sleep... today i may nap or i may not, but the adrenaline from the less cluttered cleaner living space has me wired the past few hours or more and at the moment)...

sharing the space is gonna be more fun now (and the cleaner and less cluttered it gets, the more comfortable the intimacy gets, but we won't go there just now - one level of excitement at a time so each can be savored... the secret to an amazing life... though going from zero to infinity now and then is a magical experience i recommend to everyone at least once or a few times if you get that lucky)... there is still more un-cluttering to do as there are still boxes to sort through, but the major advance is done and the process just may continue cuz this rush is fun :)

my phone rang a few times while i was cleaning and vacuuming so i am gonna check my messages and relax a bit, then go online and check jobs and emails and so on, my current job... yeah, i deserve a few weeks off, but i also deserve to be able to pay my bills so i won't skip a day yet...

so what are you up to today?...