Saturday May 7th 2011

I cleaned my car! okay, now to most people this is no big deal at all. But for me, with a husband who uses my car as a personal storage space for his excess army gear, and a two year old daughter who seems to get hungry as soon as we get in the car... you can imagine what a nightmare it was. Granted, I have actaully been working on getting it clean for months. As soon as my husband deployed I set out to make my car clean again... but I only got as far as getting his stuff out and moving it into the storage shed haphazardly. After joining FLYlady.net and seeing that friday was the designated day to clean out your car and purse, I knew I had to do something about the mess. I didn't want to jump in a do it all at once, because this usually takes 4-5 hours since I am a perfectionist and will not stop until it looks like i paid someone else to detail my car. This time, i simply took one extra trip to my car, every time I went somewhere. Slowly I started to see the trash and toys disappear from my car and I started to feel better about it. Then yesterday, I got my new "purple rags" in the mail and decided to try them out on my car. I wiped the dash and windows down so they were dust and fingerprint free. Then today when my daughter was taking her nap, I took the vacuum to it! FINALLY! you would not believe how many crumbs were in there. It looked almost presentable, all I had to do was use some armor all on the dash and now I smile when I get in my car. It's not prefect. Far from it. But you can tell I cleaned it and will be keeping it up.
Also, yesterday I finally did something I have been procrastinating. Washing the dog! He is a big dog and is afraid of the shower and the hose, but to give him a bath takes a LOOONG time because he is so tall and his hair is so thick, I have to pour so much water on him to wash the soap off. Well I bought a dual shower head, and the second one detaches and the cord goes down to houdini's back. It took me all of 10 mins and he seemed to actually enjoy the water since I had control over the water and could let him slowly get used to it. The last time I washed him was...... 6 months ago? Poor boy. Now that I know it is a relatively painless chore, I plan to do it every-other week. as a part of his "houdini day" when we go to the dog park and take him on a extra long walk through the nature preserve.

So.... ya I feel pretty proud of myself. I can tell everyone is getting bored with my gloating about stupid things. And since my husband isn't here for me to talk at, I figured I would put all this on the internet. because nothing bad ever came out of that ;)