MUST Declutter

Ever since I started my new job I haven't quite been able to catch up on housework. When I get home I'm exhausted and there are so many hours of Internet tomfoolery and New Fall TV season programming to fill my three and a half short hours until it is time to go to bed again (oh yeah I now need to go to bed earlier than my senior citizen parents ... it's great!). Playing catchup was my ooh so exciting plan for this past weekend, but I was cruelly thwarted by a knockout bout of flu which was oh so considerately passed on to me by my new students. I survived kidney stones when I was 16 and back surgery when I was 21 and I am pretty sure I would not survive another go-around with this bug.

So now I have reach a critical level on the House Needs Cleaning scale. Starting tomorrow, as soon as I get home from work I need to start sorting, refusing, scrubbing, and washing. I have to lock myself away this weekend and come hell or high water it is all getting cleaned. I have over 40 hours of Nerdist podcasts ready and raring to go on my iPod. If they don't get me through nothing will!

I Went Overboard!

In celebration of the fact that I could read for fun again, I visited the library the day after I finished grad school. I carefully constructed a list of books that I wanted to read that were available and a list of the books that I wanted to request/ put on hold. Both lists were REALLY long. In addition to going to the library I also belong to Bookswim and I received a new shipment the same day I brought home eight library books. Three days later the phone rang. The library had two books from my list ready and waiting for me. Two more days go by and the phone rings again; now they have four books waiting for me. This cycle has repeated over the last three weeks so I now have 3 BookSwim books and 15 library books at home. The Bookswim books haven't been touched because they don't have a due date and I feel like I am playing Russian Roulette with library due dates. The pile of books is stressing me out! Any time spent not reading feels wrong! So until further notice I will be reading as fast as I possibly can ...

Oh and Book Expo is in a month. I can feel the eye strain already!