More Home Pics

Even with all the clutter I love our mirror wave with the jumping fish. It is on the wall across from the bed so I look at it while lying in bed. We got the mirror from Ikea and the fish is a plate from Pier One. We stuck both items to the wall with those Command strips. No holes in the wall!!

I wish I had a before picture of this dresser, it was an ugly fake wood exterior with brassy pulls. I primered and painted the piece and took the hardware off and spray painted them with a hammered metal spray. I love the way it turned out!

The bedroom just required some tidying, dusting, bedmaking, and TONS of laundry. Chico thinks I did all the cleaning just for him.

We have a very open floor plan so this is our living, kitchen, and dining, oh and breakfast nook room. All in one.

Fall Cleaning

Please excuse the awful photos, I was cleaning in a hurry and the quality of the pics was not very important. Made some majorly awesome progress today.

Before the clean sweep.

After!


There are only "clean"pics of the guest bath. I cleaned it a couple of days ago and there wasn't much to see anyway except a few rogue bird feathers thanks to Alvin.



Computer nook before. This is kinda my dumping ground when I come in from work. I will make a serious effort to stop it.


Living room pre-clean.

Added some candles for ambiance, banished the exercise ball. Did not get rid of the Pete the cats on the mantle, they just got framed and hung.

Detriments of Perfectionism

I ran across an interesting post on Health for the Whole Self that examined the connection between perfectionism and binge eating. I have seen myself cycle through all-or-nothing failures in eating habits, exercising habits, maintaining household chores, the list could go on and on to incorporate every aspect of my life. This post is not meant to serve as a cop out or an excuse for these behaviors in the past. I am examining how this behavior has been ever present in my life, and now day by day I am going to work on limiting my all-or-nothing thinking. This is going to be a big change so I am starting with small goals for myself.

1. If I have a bad night at work and don't get to eat every 3-4 hours and drink as much water as I should, I will NOT come home and eat everything in sight because I am starving and "I haven't eaten all night." I WILL make a healthy meal and give my body some good fuel since I had put it through stress all night.
2. If I don't complete everything I set out to at work, I will let it go. I will NOT bring feelings of disappointment and frustration from work into the house.
3. I will STOP telling myself that a clean house must be cleaned from top to bottom (baseboards, windows, in drawers, under the bed) and feeling like a failure when I can only do so much. It is OK to tidy up. I will NOT get bogged down in cleaning the nooks and crannies when there is big stuff left to do (laundry, dishes, vacuum).

3 is plenty for now, I don't want to set myself up for failure. So....working on 1 and 2 tonight.