Archives for September 2008

Well, my house’s hot spots anyway.  We won’t get into MY hot spots.  Ahem.  I was able to get things a bit cleaned this evening and realize there are a few places that if they get cleaned, I know I must have been serious about cleaning.  Those spots are:

• My bathroom floor…especially this little corner on the floor at the bottom of the tub that I stare at every time I go to the bathroom.  It drives me nuts and I always make sure to get it extremely clean when I finally do clean it (I cleaned it today and I’ll give myself a pat on the back every time I go to the bathroom for the next few days).
• The side counter top in the kitchen.  I dump all of my papers and everything else I don’t know what to do with there. I have to make a concerted effort to get it clean.  It’s not clean right now.
• The playroom.  It’s an “event” to get that room cleaned.  It’s almost clean right now but only because Scott rearranged everything in there recently.  Not because I cleaned it recently.
• A little table in my office.  The girls use the table for crafts and ALWAYS have some sort of stamp, marker or paper on there.  It’s not clean right now either.

Some of those are what FlyLady calls Hot Spots.  I should take her advice and just work on those every day a little at a time.  Since FlyLady actually has a name for these I’m guessing I’m not the only one with places like these?

I’m not one to blog about my professional life much but let’s just say there are two major banks that made a deal late last night which I may be affected by.  And if I’m not personally, family and friends will be for sure.  I know most of us are in shock over it.

In fact, I had no clue that anything happened until someone sent me a message on facebook saying sorry to hear about the deal and I had no clue what they meant and ignored it until I sat on a status meeting today and everyone was buzzing over it and I had to check cnn.com to see what in the heck they were talking about.  I obviously was behind on the news this morning.

So anyway, the next days and months should prove pretty interesting.

This weekend went really well.  It ended up being a gorgeous weekend.  Our cabin turned out nice (albeit no WIFI and with lots of goats) and although our Events Coordinator (Scott) didn’t plan any activities so well (well, to his credit he had thought we’d go tubing but it was WAY too cold for that), we ended up filling our time nicely.  We didn’t get in Friday until 9:30 so we just spent time around a little camp fire until late.

Saturday we went out to breakfast, did the Old Tyme Photo and then headed up to Gatlinburg for the day.  We went through a haunted house, went up the Sky Lift, did a little shopping and ate lunch.  We headed back and had our planning meeting and ate dinner in.  We ended the night with smores which were fantastic.  And yes, I had a Isagenix shake for dinner but splurged on the smores. So worth it.  We were up and out the door Sunday morning by 9:30 so it was a pretty quick trip overall.  If you want to see all the pictures head over here.