In about five hours my alarm is set to go off at the loudest it’s ever been. By 10am I need to be in the shower and ready to start the day because between the hours of noon and four PM I’ll be waiting on Stanley Steamer to get here and take care of the carpets. Now, when one pays a company to come in and do….say…6 rooms, you also pay a bit extra so that they can move things around. So please tell me why for the last two days Sean and I have been moving everything out of the living room, dining room, bedroom and office? Because while they claim they’ll move things for you, it only falls under certain categories and if they DO move it for you, it needs to be completely cleaned off. They don’t move plants, they don’t move bulky furniture (king bed), they won’t move wooden bookcases unless they’re cleared off and they won’t touch electronics. Guess who’s house is filled with everything they WON’T move, but were paid extra for? :: waits patiently for your guess ::
I attempted to get into bed around 3:30 because thanks to a faulty alarm clock (Sean) I didn’t wake up as early as I wanted to so I knew I was going to have to fight to get myself to sleep tonight. Who would have thought that an hour and half later listening to Sean wheezing, Bella snoring, and the different paperboys doing 80 miles an hour in a 13 mile-an-hour complex could keep me wide awake?
I’m in the kitchen because there’s so much stuff piled up on my desk (to get it off the floor for the cleaners) that I can’t even use my iMac. I’m not sure of where my laptop is at this point considering the house is in complete disarray. My DS is no where to be found but something tells me Sean had something to do with that, considering his “throw it anywhere” strategy when we started this project. He doesn’t understand that if you’re organized going into this, it’s so much easier to put everything back and get back to your regular life without having to go through bags and stacked up things where you’re unsure of their original origin, but men tend to do that.
The coffee pot is just about done brewing, Karen sets it for about 5am considering she’s up around 5:30 (most days). Today she has a doctors appointment at 9am so I’m sure her alarm is going to be beeping soon as well. I don’t know what to do to get myself to sleep. Usually staring at a screen for a little while does it for me, reading a book works if the screen remedy fails. Unfortunately, neither one is working for me right now. I guess because I feel as though there’s so much to accomplish today. I would love to just start cleaning right now but the only thing that’s really left to do before they show up is vacuum and that’s kind of rude to do at 5am. Both Karen and Sean can sleep right through it, but I doubt that’ll have the same effect on the neighbors considering how loud the Dyson is. With the window cracked I can hear it up the street.
I need to find something to do that will bore me enough to get me in bed. Maybe I’ll surf around MySpace for a while, nothing but uninteresting people there.
Lol.. sounds like chaos! Getting your carpets cleaned is hard work. We have the same thing here, they only move certain stuff.. such a pain in the ass!!
I hope you managed to sleep.. yes MySpace is lame – it should’ve worked for ya!
I hope the house is back in order! hehe
Ugh. It’s always those little things that keep you awake. I can never sleep when Eric is snoring.
Did MySpace work? It almost always works for me! LOL. 🙂
Thanks for the Post.
Ivy – MySpace never works for me, I just caught up with a few friends I haven’t spoken to in a while (going on Years at this point). It never has much of an entertainment value, I don’t quite understand why so many people flock to it.
We have a 3yo boy and our carpet couldn’t possibly get any worse! Our next son is due February 3rd so I think we’ll wait before they’re both 5 before we bother getting it steam cleaned! Thanks
Wow! That’s total chaos. My favorite is stumbleupon to kill some time. I always find something extremely intersting each time I hit that button!
Argh, not being able to sleep is the worst. I always panic when it keeps getting later and later and you know that you have to be up in 4hrs, 3hrs, 2hrs….etc and its a never ending cycle so you worry and it keeps you up even more! I suppose you’re lucky in a way that you work from home so you dont have to worry about being up and in an office on time and not look like you didnt get any sleep!!! Hope the carpet cleaning went well…I wish my landlord would arrange to get mine cleaned!!
A lot of people are using Melatonin now to get some good sleep. I may have spelled the word incorrectly.