It’s Wednesday already? Where does the time go? Where did my weekend go? Who is this? How did you get this number?
OK, so I had some grand plans for this past weekend aaaand I hit a couple of them. I finally took 4 giant bags of clothes to Goodwill and donated them. That’s a big ol’ gold star on my KonMari journey as far as I’m concerned. I cleaned out one of our guest rooms that has been collecting empty boxes and random odds and ends since we moved in a few months ago. Check. I also managed to spend zero dollars outside of groceries and household stuff so the no-spend plan is in full force. Check. And while I may not have written any additional blog posts, I did take several naps. Psh, amazing. I give my weekend a thumbs up. But since it’s already Wednesday let’s take a look forward at this week’s Wants.
Try Out My New Bona Floor Cleaner
Yeah, I’m excited about a mop. I’m fun at parties, really. When our house was on the market last summer, I spent many afternoons scooting around the floor with rags under my feet to get rid of the streaks my mop had left behind. Our new home has all hardwood floors and the dull, streaky mess makes me insane. The Swiffer WetJet sucks and my results with a mop and bucket aren’t much better. This weekend I marched down to Bed Bath and Beyond and used one of the coupons they relentlessly text me to purchase a Bona mop, floor cleaner, and an extra microfiber cloth head for the mop. This weekend I plan to mean business. Two cats and a dog make clean floors a tough project but a girl can dream.
Shake This Cold… or whatever it is
My husband and I have both been struggling a bit with some sort of illness since the weekend. I dealt with it by taking extra naps and drowning my digestive system with orange juice (this is my cure-all, btw). My husband has chosen the business-as-usual route, which means he has remained more sickly than I (like I said, it’s a cure-all). I’d like for both of us to feel better so we can have fewer tissue wads around the house. Don’t act like it doesn’t happen to you. We also watched Battle Royale this weekend, so here you go.
The People v. O.J. Simpson
I didn’t realize so many people were actually watching this. I brought it up at work the other day and several people were like “Oh yeah, I watch that.” What? And it’s just like when I started watching Melissa and Joey: I started watching for camp value and now I’m involved. My husband is a little less than two years younger than I am but wasn’t raised by his television, so he’s viewing most of the drama for the first time. One question that we had was a serious “Is John Travolta acting like Robert Shapiro or like John Travolta?” The way some of his dialogue is delivered is distracting to say the least – like the first time I saw Party Monster and was confronted by what seemed like really terrible, over-the-top performances by Seth Green and Macaulay Culkin. Then I saw interviews with the actual Michael Alig and James St. James and I was like “Oh.” I watched this classic interview between Barbara Walters and Robert Shapiro and I was like “Oh.”
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR_HHAMqpo8&w=420&h=315]
Spoiler alert on the ending though.
This Reclaimed Wood Shadow Box
I’ve been looking at this deep shadow box from D’Angelo Woodcrafts on Etsy for months and months but I haven’t pulled the trigger yet. My wedding bouquet has been hanging upside-down in my closet for the past year and a half and it’s really time to give it a home. This rustic shadow box is perfect. My husband has said he will build me something similar but if I’d been holding my breath I’d be dead by now. I think it might time to bite the bullet. Or in this case, buy it.
DO NOT WANT IT WEDNESDAY: “Richonne”
OK, so #Richonne feels super cheap to me. Damn, damn, double damn. I know that the Twitter-verse damn near blew up when they went for it on The Walking Dead, but it just doesn’t feel right. Michonne is a friggin’ warrior and Rick is a hot mess 85% of the time. Blech. I hate getting involved with characters’ “hidden motivations” because they aren’t real people but I just don’t care for this development. Bummed about it.
That’s it for this week! What are you wanting?