Life - Part 2

So now on to what I had planned to talk about yesterday. Can you have Spring if the forecast is this outside...

-33! In March! For my American friends that equals -27.4 f according to the convert website. And that hasn't even been the coldest it's been this week. I think once the calendar turns to March it shouldn't be allowed to get colder than at least -12. But I suppose that's the price we pay for living where we live.

Anyways, for the past three days I've been antsy. It happens every year this time. Sometimes earlier in February and other times later in April. As my husband sees it in our house anyways.... the dreaded Spring Cleaning mode. Where he comes home and the house is completely moved around. Or perhaps everything in the kitchen is on the floor and I'm scrubbing every inch of cupboard space. I can't help it. I just get a strong urge to clean, organize, and purge.

Where I was trying to go with yesterday's post was that since we moved here I've been the main one responsible for cleaning the whole house. Up until last week there was five of us living here and several animals. Now we are back to four people. But sometimes that feels like a lot more with all the people that come in and out these doors in a week. So Monday I had enough. I scrubbed and mopped and cleaned. And then I got others involved. And when I felt like the upstairs was good, I moved on downstairs to our basement suite and started there. A lot of our things we just left in boxes. It's really irritating but seeing how we are scouring the newspaper for places (there is pretty much not a thing in this town for rent!) it doesn't make sense to unpack just to pack again. My computer has been propped up on our night stand on our bed. Which has led to many a discussion on the annoyance of it. So I finally had enough I moved a whole bunch of boxes into our recently  vacated spare room . I created myself a fairly level pile of boxes, found some scrap pieces of boards and roof tile and before I knew it I had me a pretty sweet desk area. With all that organization I decided to clean up the hard drive on my computer and delete some piled up files I won't ever use.

I think perhaps later today I'll tackle a few more things to scrub and purge. Do you ever get that boost of energy close to the beginning of spring? Do you ignore it and hope it passes or make the most of it? I usually try to make the most of it. But usually it's a tell tale sign of another spring habit... chopping my own hair off. This could be another one of these moments.

P.S. Don't you just love my new header?! I made it last night. It's probably a little "kid-ish" but it makes me smile every time I look at it. Plus it's the best I can do!