Ah, you didn't get a full glimpse of the Hoarders horror, then. Really, it's bad. Like, can only walk 3 or 4 feet into the room before the piles (and the desk on its side [no, I have NO idea]) prevent any further incursion.

Cleaning up a bit, I just found a piece of hard candy under some of the papers. It doesn't seem to have attracted anything, though the wrapper was a bit unwrapped. So, there are definitely not ants here, at the very least.

In a complete shift, it looks like Kelly's bf is going to officially propose next week. Kelly's best friend is coming to visit for a week with her fiance. They will be staying at my house, she is my second daughter. Anyway, he wants Kelly to be able to celebrate with Vicki and S.

They were originally going to wait until they could afford a "classic" engagement ring. I'll admit, I'm the one who gave them the idea of going non-traditional. Look at other stones. Simpler options. If, down the line, they want to upgrade, then maybe different rings for her wedding set or have it be an anniversary thing.

Sooooooo...he ordered a ring with an aquamarine stone and "white sapphires" aka not-diamonds but with the look of them. Her birthstone is aquamarine and his is diamond - so I think it is a pretty choice for them.

Our house is like islands of clean and messy. I'm always running out of time to get everything done so it's a craps shoot what happens to be clean at any one time. I try to keep the most public areas clean enough that the kids feel they can have people over. I did all the work for dinner tonight last night so I'll have time to clean the kitchen while it's cooking.

Gud, that is absolutely me most of the time - the downstairs may be presentable - but my room and my office...oy.

I've got family room, living room, dining room, one bathroom, and about half the master bedroom okay. The kitchen is messy, but not scary. My kids rooms are kinda terrible and my wife's office area is kinda catastrophic. However, I don't clean those areas. The garage is kinda terrible, but the new car can park in it and one can get to mostly everything so it's on the back-burner.

Last Saturday was "help Suzi get the garage back to where I can walk through it" day. We organized a bunch but then pulled out a bunch that needs to go out on the next "extra trash" day which isn't for about 3 weeks...so it is still a mess.

Sounds like a lot of good work though.

I have a meltdown at the grocery store. I the my phone down and ended up crying. One employee asked if I was ok and did I want EMS. That level of meltdown.

I have a UTI again. I know why...sexy times probably. I ended up going to CVS minute clinic. I need to see the urologist and ask if I can get back on the preventative antibiotic.

Also mom is going out of town Wednesday. Maybe. Today she took her car into the place she likes but is unreliable and of course they said it would be ready by noon. No they don't have the part it will be in at 1:30. No 2:30. No tomorrow.

Also Email was over all day that was last minute. All this made me change my plans. Plus he was... something. Every 2. Hours he is hungry again but he doesn't want to eat anything.

He really really wants someone to rough house with but Mom can only do so much and I won't. I won't because when he accidentally hurts Mom and she says stop he doesn't. But she lets it go until it goes too far. Hegot upset because she put a stop to anything when he did tickle her and wouldn't stop.

I want to point out to mom she's not helping him learn boundaries but she has boundary issues. Then E was going to maybe stay for dinner. I was in town and asked I'd I should get something. We didn't have enough sandwich meat and we were going to have enough pork for dinner and E doesn't eat pork. Mom suggests Zaxbys but I didn't want to because my brother does not want E to eat fast food. Mom kept saying I'll get a salad and ill share some but that wouldn't fix the it's fast good issue and it wouldn't be enough. Today he'd had breakfast t his house, snack at ours, lunch at ours and 2 other snacks. The other day he ate 2 turkey and cheese sandwiches, 2 jellos cips, 2 applesuace cups, crackers, 2 glasses of milk, cheese , and something else. Not all at one sitting. He's going again.

I ended up going to grocery store and everyone was so slow and I had to pee and it hurt and I lost it.

Came home and..Email isn't staying for dinner but I wanted quit and there was none and I want to play call of duty but Mom is watching the tv.

And my plans for tomorrow are up in the air and if mom's car won't get fixed I don't know what will happen

Oh askye, I'm sorry, that's so difficult, with nothing going to plan and everything feeling out of control. I'm so sorry. I hope you can feel better, and more like you have a handle on things.

We are having guests this weekend. I warned them ahead of time, it's supposed to be hot, our house has no AC, and the floors are an agility course of half-empty boxes and stacks of books mid-sort and shelve. Shelves are still being built, there's no way to clear anything effectively without undoing all the sorted stacks. So they know. There are paths to places to sit, and a porch with a breeze, and we'll go out to eat.

I will scrub the bathroom sinks and toilets and make sure the ceiling cobwebs are gone, though. Dirty dishes never accumulate in this house, due to unwavering vigilance, and otherwise, they'll have to content themselves with our company, and the opportunity to book shop, in house, as it were.