Girl with mop, interrupted

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Famous last words from my last post re. spring cleaning:

We’re chipping away at it a little every day, and I know that by the end of our holiday we’ll be living in a clean, serene and organized space.

HA!  Well, the universe certainly didn’t have that in store for us.  We did make some great progress on our spring cleaning in the first few days of our holiday, but eventually life caught up with us.  I got clobbered with a nasty migraine for a couple of days, and later my stepmum ended up going to the ER with appendicitis and having emergency surgery.  Yikes!  (She’s recovering very well, by the way.  Phew!)  Needless to say, some things are higher priority in life than re-alphabetizing the spice drawer.

But we did actually manage to relax a little too.  My partner and I spent his birthday luxuriating at Le Nordik, an outdoor spa in Quebec, followed by a wonderful lunch at a great little vegetarian place, Le Cafe Soupe ‘Herbe.  Absolutely wonderful.  I also had a fun day hanging out with my mom, and went to see a totally sweet movie – Bedtime Story – with my volunteer match (part of a group I volunteer with).  And hey, the weather wasn’t half bad.  So all in all, I think it was a pretty good week off.

Now our challenge is to keep hacking away at the spring cleaning now that we’re back to our busy work schedules.  The apartment is totally nutty with sorting boxes blanketing the living room floor, not to mention the plant re-potting station set up in the middle of the kitchen floor.  The half-way mess is driving me even more crazy than the initial mess!  Hopefully we can blast the rest of it on the weekend.

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