Last June, when I was just a baby blogger, I wrote a post for Catonsville Patch called “Measures of Success,” in which I list and give an accurate account of my accomplishments and the importance they’ve played in my life. Well, people, you know that empty feeling you have inside? That vague longing you can’t seem to identify and articulate? It’s your intense desire to know what I’ve gotten away with accomplished this year. I’m here for you. Here to cure what ails you, and it ain’t more cowbell.
Let’s take a little looksie back, shall we?
1. Recapture my lost youth? Right after I adjust to these new trifocals.
2. Age gracefully? Right after I rant a little bit more on Facebook about bathing suits and their evil ways.
3. Lose weight? Well, now this was interesting…whereas last year I worked out with a personal trainer and gained weight, this year I stopped working out with a trainer, but joined Weight Watchers. I actually lost 8 pounds!!! And get this – I kept it off for…wait for it…wait for it…TWO WHOLE WEEKS! You guys are jealous. Admit it.
4. Clean and declutter areas of the house? HAHAHAHAHA! Unless you count the bizarre episode wherein I became extremely frustrated at the number of things piled on top of each other in my refrigerator. I got so aggravated at how things would fall our of the fridge whenever I opened the door, I did what any normally functioning human being would have done.
I got rid of lots of extraneous cookbooks and organized the liquor. The fridge is still a mess, but at least I can get my hands on the citrus vodka more easily. That’s what I call progress.
Finally, in the category of TMI, I would like to share something of which I am very proud. It has to do with, well, activity in the bedroom. Something involving…um…the bed. Something that, over the course, of 21 married years, I’ve come to realize is as much if not more my responsibility than anyone else’s. Something that has improved and increased in its frequency and regularity. And that something is…(hushed whispers, here) changing the sheets on the bed. Wow, that was hard to admit.
Yes, folks, changing the sheets on everyone’s bed was something I avoided at all costs. One of my children could have a bloody nose all over his pillowcase, or be throwing up on his sheets, and I’ll be there thinking, “Well, if I just sop it up with the wet-vac and cover the rest with a towel, he can sleep on it for a few more weeks…” No longer!
I can say with boundless pride that I have for MONTHS now, been changing the sheets on everyone’s bed every two weeks, whether they need it or not! While, on what I creatively dub “Sheet Changing Day”, the dirty sheets are normally deposited in a corner of my room for a week or more, I would like to point out that on one of those sheet changing days, I even managed to WASH AND FOLD the dirty sheets! Do you hear me, people? On the same day!!! They may have sat, folded, in the laundry basket for 10 more days or so before I put them into their respective closets, but still – one can’t help but be impressed by the ways in which I am continually working to improve myself, no?
Now, who wants an appletini?
Haha! I could take a similar picture of sheets in my house. Maybe I will use your blog for inspiration! Maybe…
If I can improve the life of just one person… 😉
I change my sheets every two weeks. I also never get into bed dirty. Pass me a beverage.
Do you drink in bed?
Your pile of sheets, (if one regards the white with black dots at the left as a head resting on the carpet,) strangely resembles a person kneeling on the floor, bent over in agony after having had many too many appletinis.
Just joking.
HAHAHA!!! Yes, it sure does! Unintentional, I can assure you…
I’m not sure, but I think there is a body in those sheets. You might have stripped the beds too soon!
It’s possible…things have been awfully quiet around here, come to think of it…
Hahahahahahahaha! I do! Extraneous, indeed.
Appletinis all around!!!
Appletini sound good to me, even at 8AM. One of these days I am going to have a drink for breakfast just to see how my day goes. I have a hall closet full of dusty sheets because I wash the ones on the beds and put them back on. That does eliminate the whole folding process. Funny my sons sheets are in the dryer now. Of his two pillows all sides had dried slobber, that’s how I go about my sheet washing schedule. I have been known just to take the pillow case off. Are we scared from weekly sheet changes from our parents and grandmothers?
Oooo – I’m gonna have to try both those things – both doing the sheets all in one day, and an appletini for breakfast…
Something else that just occurred to me – instead of washing them and putting them back on, how about just turning them inside out? That nets me two more weeks without washing them!
LOL!!!!!!! I don’t usually return to read the comments. So glad I did.
I change our sheets every week to ten days. The boys’? Every week. Euw. Smelly. But yes, Appletini, and good for you for keeping the 8lbs off. I think it migrated to my butt. You can take it back any time you want.
Cheers!!
Your butt should be only 4 pounds heavier, since I gained 4 back since those two weeks ended in February…
well then, some other wench has gifted them to me anonymously. Lemme find her