March 27th, 2010
With our kitchen wall project in full swing, I fell behind on the weekly assignments for Apartment Therapy’s Kitchen Cure.
While week one’s assignment, Clean Out Pantry, was complete, week two’s assignment, De-Clutter & Reorganize Tools got pushed back to week three while we worked on the wall. The wall project however, fell into another [...]
February 26th, 2010
As I mentioned a few days ago, I signed up for Apartment Therapy’s Kitchen Cure, a four-week program to designed to whip your kitchen in shape. It kicks off this weekend, so if you’d like to join me and over 2,000 others, just follow the link above.
This afternoon I received my first assignment: Clean Out [...]
November 17th, 2009
Oh dear, another week and a half gone and I haven’t been a good blogger. Once I get through a tight work deadline over the next week, that should change. Of course on top of work and teaching I also have Thanksgiving to prepare for, and the house needs more tidying up before next Thursday.
We’re [...]
September 17th, 2008
Fortunately our basement remained dry throughout the heavy rainfall in the Chicago area last weekend. We noticed our neighbor drying out a few things from her basement, but our street is in a relatively high part of town, so I think most people had only minor damage, if anything. We haven’t seen the people who [...]
April 4th, 2008
Last Saturday we were the first delivery of the day from Abt, THE place to go in Chicagoland for appliances and electronics.
Good-bye crappy old Caloric-brand “Heritage Series” range — you’re not going to turn yourself on whenever you want any longer.
Hello, beautiful new Frigidaire slide-in range.
The fried eggs came out perfectly, and [...]
March 20th, 2008
I finally tackled the bar area in the basement, which had been piled with crap. Everything is put away, the bar is stocked, and the record albums are hung on the wall around the pool table.
Just a few things left to do down there. We’ll probably have to patch the former cat pee areas with [...]
February 19th, 2008
We accomplished a fair amount of little things over the weekend. We temporarily stashed most of our books on the attic staircase during the woodwork and plaster work phase, and even though they were covered with newspaper and plastic, the books were filthy. So I cleaned them off and put them back in place in [...]
January 2nd, 2008
Now that I have a project to-do list system set-up, I guess I need to actually put my 2008 Resolutions/To-Dos in writing. But before I get to that, there are a bunch of reference files that I needed to organize (pdfs, text files, jpegs, etc.). Instead of searching for them in (Mac’s OS X) Spotlight [...]
January 1st, 2008
Continuing with yesterday’s post, there are a couple of web-based project/to-do list applications that I have been trying out to help with our 2008 New Year Goals (namely, to whip this house into shape).
The first one I tried is Remember the Milk (RTM). Cute name, cute cow. But more importantly, does it work?
I found [...]
December 31st, 2007
The New Year is always a great time for me to really focus on my organization system (or lack thereof). I enjoy organizing things and BEING organized, and if I feel disorganized I get stressed. When our previous house was on the market, it was completely free of clutter, and it really helped in the [...]
August 21st, 2007
We did a lot this weekend, even though it doesn’t seem like it. I was hoping to paint the kitchen, but it took a good part of Saturday just to get my painting supplies organized (and I have to be organized before I start on a project, otherwise forget it!). The paint cans, rollers, trays, [...]