Clean or not to Clean

At 3am I was hoping I could get to sleep...then came 4am, 5am, 6am, the alarm at 7am....Blah...I hate when I have to be somewhere in the morning that I can't sleep. I have been up almost 40 hours now. Which brings me to the issue keeping me up...

So what if I sleep in! If my husband is home or it's the weekend...who cares?!!! I am so irritated. I know that some family...who I didn't want to be here in the first place, mind you....thinks that I am a bad housekeeper and shared that with everyone else.

Yes I sleep in...I sleep in because I am a night person, I have insomnia, and it is the only time I can have a real break from the day! It doesn't make me lazy. And true...my house is cluttered and messy...You can move out! If I wanted to clean it or even felt good enough to clean it I would. I choose to leave my Stampin Up stuff in a pile at the end of the cupboard and all the dishes in the sink untill I have a full load. I'm not lazy...I have other things to do.

My husband doesn't stand up for me about it, like I wish he would. He knows I am desperately in need of 2 disk replacements or they will fuse my back and I don't want that at 29yrs old. He knows I have a 1yr old that requires a ton of attention. He knows I have to drive to town and back (40 miles at least) everyday for the older kids. He knows I have two independent businesses that require man power to run stuff around. He knows I volunteer for tons of stuff that I love to do. He knows I have to have some me time.

He thinks I have my priorities messed up when it comes to the house. I really don't. I clean the sinks, I scrub the toilets, I do the dishes, laundry, and all the other stupid stuff. I don't have mold and spores floating around everywhere (granted a dust bunny or two has floated around the computer a time or two). I mop the stupid floor on hands and knees...What else do you want from me?



Should I pick up the clutter? Probably would be nice, but if I have better things to do then I'll leave that up to you. Really...I do have better things to do!

Oooohhhh I am so Mad

I am so mad at my husband. He thinks I blog way too much and I don't have my priorities straight. Doesn't he understand that I just don't want to clean the house?!

I blog and sit on the computer while the baby naps or after the kids are in bed. If I wasn't doing that I would just be watching a movie or two. I spend on a usual day less than 2 hours. I guess it could sound like a lot, but if I were still working...I would be on even longer. It seems like if you work you get the interaction all day long and when you stay home, you usually don't get any adult interaction till your spouse comes home.

Don't they get it? Sometimes you just need to get away and that's hard to do with kids. I've been home alone with my kids since Thursday afternoon. I took the baby to play group during the day, but after that...nothing. So what I didn't scrub the floor till Sat. My priorities aren't messed up.

When I was selling Pampered Chef full time he complained I did that to much so he told me to quit at the first of the year. Did/Do I want to...no! But my priorities were wrong then too. I guess he just wants me to stay home and do nothing. I'm sorry but that's just too boring. It might work for him if he was ever here, but he isn't! (steaming)

He doesn't notice when I do anything around the house so why do it? He said he isn't calling me lazy, but it feels like it. I just hand scrubbed the floor for 2 hours, did 2 loads of dishes (my dishwasher is awful), fixed the couch, cleaned under it, and vacuumed the living room. Has he said anything? No. Will he, NO. He thinks he has to throw everything away.. he even called me a Hoarder! I have to say, he is not my favorite person. He has no clue what it is even like to pick up. I have to set the trash out in the middle of the floor for 2 or more days of everyone tripping over it before he takes it out!

I am always picking his undies off the floor (on my side of the bed) because he doesn't put it in the laundry basket. Just because my side is closer to the door doesn't mean that the laundry basket right outside is any further away! I've asked for a month to have the diaper pail emptied. I'm the hoarder...So what I have 2 dining room tables...One is more of a breakfast nook table and we payed a butt load for it and it's perfect for scrapbooking. It's not my fault he never finished the basement so I can use it! I'm not getting rid of the nice stuff just to make him feel better!

Stop moving me around so I can take stuff out of boxes.

Maybe I want to Fly South

Found a house that has been stripped to the sheet rock. The people took the kitchen sink, cabinets, and theater seating...Guess if you can't pay your loan you take what you can carry and run! I think it is almost comical that they ran off with some of the carpet besides. I don't think it is funny that they over extended themselves. I just think it is funny that they felt it necessary to run off with the finish work! If we were going to lose our house then I would think that would include the inside furnishings bolted, stapled and glued to the walls and floor.

The house has been on the market for 22 days...Do you think it will last another 15-45? lol

I am not sure that a normal person would spend $205,000 for an unfinished house. I know we would not spend that much to get it. Not sure I want my kids to be Trojans when they grow up and attend high school. Seems like cruel and unusual punishment. Plus I am so afraid they will end up dating distant cousins because both sides of my family are from there. There was a time in HS when I was dating that I commented to a Aunt (married my dad's brother...just happened to be related to my mother) about how cute this boy was I met and she said, "Well, you know you are related right?"
Bummer...but I never called him, lol.

I think it would be okay to live just 15 miles from my parents...and his. 15 miles is close, but not stop by every single day close...That gives me 22 minutes to clean house from the time I receive the phone call they are on their way.

I'm not scared of a challenge...I can finish the inside of a home for under $20,000...I am a smart shopper...Guess I'll have to post some pictures of the inside when I get it clean enough to list, lol...Anyone want to take my kids for a month so it can be listed? Guess I've done it before. I kept the other house clean with kids by myself after Morgan left to work...But dang it we only slept there.

Is it bad to say..hey just move me to TX instead because there is no snow there? I've never been there and I want to live by my family, but I hate snow now. It is keeping my hubby stranded in the Denver Airport...he has been there 9 hours this time...and 8 hours on the way there...Now he has caught a flight to a town 4 hours away, but has no hotel and no car...He is missing work all for a new job...Nice.