deathpixie | First weekend of spring.

So, today has been productive like you wouldn't believe.

Following a brief bit of online time catching up with various things, I headed down to the post office to send off Dad's Father's Day present and mail off a box of bits and pieces to Canada, plus bought a couple more parcel packs to send stuff over, mostly clothes, although the box wasn't as pricey as I thought it would be. Surface mail rocks. Australia Post also rocks - well, if it gets there, they will. After adventures in mailing, I headed to the gym for an hour. Did my reps, fifteen minutes on the heavy bag working on my punching - good grief have I lost power and speed in my left arm, it's as weak as something not very strong at all. Half an hour on the recumbant, doing the Cascades program - three hills, at an average of 40 km/h. Then I headed back up Fitzroy Street to grab some food, pausing to make a hair appointment on the way. Thursday - don't let me forget. *grins*

Then there was second breakfast at Robarta. The guys there are really very friendly - need to be to compete with the thousand other cafes along there, I suppose. And I had the most delicious mushrooms with my scrambled eggs. I wonder if I can ask them for extra mushies next time, in lieu of bacon which I can't eat... I grabbed the Saturday Age as well, which is something I haven't done in a while, so there was a relaxed meal and a couple of coffees over the paper. Following that I grabbed some groceries (juice! Cranberry juice!) and headed home.

The weather was starting to cloud over and look ominous, with some splatters of rain on the last bit of the walk home, so I plotted to get some well-needed cleaning done. And it's at this stage that I step forward and introduce myself in the traditional manner:

"Hi, my name's Rossi and I'm a cleaning junkie."

Seriously, once I started, I couldn't stop. Did the dishes, cleaned the stove and the griller and wiped the bench. Cleaned the bathroom, including sink and toilet and the mirror. Mopped the floors in both of those. Dusted the bedroom and lounge and vacumed everywhere there's carpet. And cleaned every window on the place, although there's a few I could only reach one side since I don't have a ten foot long ladder. I've got to say, I've got another reason I don't like cars; they leave this horrible black grime over everything. But yeah, place is spotless now, and I was kind of wiped by the end of it. Still planning some packing tonight though, since I really don't have that much time left. Stuff I can do sitting down, I think - my feet are tired.

I guess my spring cleaning's been done, although I've got plans for the couch out the front - need to wash the cover since the weather's warming up. And do laundry, including the sheets. And clean the bike chain, since I got caught in the rain the other day and it'll be full of sand again. Bah. And hey, there's always packing - I've got kitchen stuff that I don't use that I can put away, and then clean out the cupboards. And hey, got plenty of newspaper for wrapping stuff up in, since The Age on Saturdays isn't small.

Funny how when you start this whole cleaning and organising thing, there's always something else to do.