Getting ready for the BBQ.

Since I am obsessive compulsive, it is always a major ordeal having company over. It takes me two days, plus the day of the BBQ to clean the house and prepare the food. I don't kow why or when I became so particular about having the house clean before company came, to the point they could eat off the toilet or the floor, but I know my family thinks I am wasting my time. My dad is a slob, so I know I got it from my mom. I remember as a kid that if I didn't mop the floor by hand good enough, she would make me do the whole thing over again. So I suppose I carried this attitude of perfection into adult hood.

I do not like having people in my house if you can visibly see dust on the tables. Something that happens a day or so after I polish the furniture, because we open the windows all over the house. Yesterday I went to te store and bought paste wax and waxed and buffed all of the living room furniture. I overly clean it one afternoon a while back and it left a cloudy film all over the tops of the wood furniture. I haven't been able to get it back to the original lustre since. The wax helped but my over zealous cleaning is going to force me to refinish the furniture. Something I have never done.

We are either going to have either BBQ steak, which will cost a lot, or BBQ chicken, home made potato salad, Citrus green bean salad, Harumi is bringing a pasta salad, and Peter's friends are bringing ribs and dessert. I guess Peter will be making his teriyaki sauce for the marinade. Speakin of I sure wish we could have figured out how to can that stuff. It was the only hold back from selling the stuff.

Not sure how I did

That damn final was freaking hard. I know for a fact that I missed atleast 7 points on my test. I hate not knowing. It is driving me nuts. I am sure I have a few 1/2 points missed here and there but truly I think I got a b or a c which is good, it's passing. I am just an anal retentive, obsessive-compulsive perfectionist when it comes to stuff like that. Damnit I want an A. I worked friggin hard. I should not have gone to the movies on Sat before the final. Actually I hadn't planned on it and I kicked Peter and the kid out of the house to go see a movie so I could have study time. What happened though is they were all sold out so he bought tickets for all three of us a few hours later. I still needed that time to study math because all my time was spent on my reading. So on Sat I missed studying for math. That is a lesson learned.

Now I am going to be kicking it in hi gear to ge the house ready for an appraisal. I think Peter's sister will come on Tuesday now to help me out. We have a lot of work to do and Aiden is officially out of school. There is no way I could do all this on my own and have to watch Aiden too.

Here is a copy of my to do list.
TO DO LIST

1. Inventory touch up paint and order with wet sample from Sherwin
Williams, if low.
2. Clean and paint baseboards. Clean and touch up doors.
3. Touch up walls, take down photos, art work, and wall hangings and
touch up behind and around.
4. Wash windows, window sills and dust all blinds. Touch up paint -
window sills
5. Clean/polish the fronts of all cupboards and cupboard doors.
6. Dust entire china cabinet and clean all glass doors and shelves, both
inside and out.
7. Pull up daisy like, purple flowers in front yard. Purchase new plants (Peter plants them)
8. Hang black and white photos (master bedroom) and shelves (Aiden’s
room).
9. Clean out fireplace and clean glass doors.
10. Weed and level out dirt patch in garden and fill with bark. Move
Aiden’s outdoor toys to bark area, purchase storage bench for large .
items and a sand box. Examples: dump trucks, shovel, rake, hoe, balls,
bats, etc.

I am not even all that excited to be out of school. I would rather push on through and get it done, but the next classes are way too hard to take during the summer. Poop.