Regrouping the home!

So one of my goals while off this week and next is to really clean my house. I know sounds fun doesn't it! But I am really tired of clutter and junk laying around. Mike and I are going to get serious about food storage and that means clearing the decks! I decided it costs a lot of money do get organized. And the fact that when you clean one room it always means precleaning or post cleaning of other rooms because you need to put things back in their spots. It's a vicious circle for sure.

I was pondering today that perhaps I should buy one more closed cabinet to fit all the junk in. I thought about it and decided that all the junk wouldn't fit into one cabinet but maybe 2 would. Na not even 2 would do it. I was talking to Mike and I told him he needed to build me floor to ceiling cabinet/bookcases. His response back to me was "when did you want this done?" I told him this week or next would fit in great with my plans. He just laughed and said it wasn't going to happen.

These are the times I miss my dad. He could whip up for me anything and everything I needed. In fact it would not only look good it would last forever and withstand any hurricane force winds that came into town. But alas that isn't an option.

Right now I am also painting our piano room and then hopefully the room across the hall way to match. I figured a simple tan would look great and went to buy the paint. I went to Walmart (to buy their amazing Kilz paint) and there was no one around to mix it. I even had someone called but they never showed up. It was like the only people in the store where shoppers. I then drove over to Home Dept and had to wait for someone to come to mix it there. (Seriously where are all the paint people in the town of Tallahassee? Is there a strike going on somewhere?) Well back to my walls. I pick a color just lighter then my bedroom and bathroom. Simple enough right. I get one coat on and hate it. I get 2 coats on and am luke warm to it. Can a tan/brown/taupe color really be this hard to figure out? I wish it had a little more brown in it but not in a dark way. Less pink as well. Hummmmm I need to learn to trust my instinct and not let the paint people tell me what they think and rely on what I know and think and go with my color. So in the mean time I sit here with one wall almost painted smelling the fumes. It's too cold to open the window so hopefully it will just fade away or I'm not going to care what gets done.

We are also working on getting our pantry shelves more stable for the up and coming building of our food storage but for now I have to figure out what to do with all the small appliances I have sitting on the floor. Throw them out you might say, but I do use them every now and then. I thought well put them in the garage but that would require me to dejunk and clean that part of the house first. The cycle is never ending. I hear my mother loud and clear saying to me- "If you would put things back where they belong you wouldn't have a messy house." How right she is. But for now I pay the price of not doing that. UGH!

Shopping would be so much easier than cleaning but after this is all done it will feel so great and be much more rewarding than shopping. I sure hope I can remember where I put thing once they are moved to their new home. Awe the joys of getting older! Wish me luck or better yet come on over and give me a hand. Perhaps I will share some of my great junk with you!