V. Lazy Saturday + V. Productive Sunday = Perfect Weekend

Saturday, September 27th:
I slept until 2:30pm (can't remember the last time that happened) and it felt SOOOOOO GOOD. I think I was just really, really tired from the last couple of weeks, so getting 13 hours of sleep all at once was pretty awesome. I managed not to leave my apartment for the entire day, instead opting to sit around with Jack and read books, watch a movie (the Lost Boys of Sudan documentary), put pictures from IBYC in frames, and make a list of all the things I would get done on Sunday.

Sunday, September 28th:
$3 - ATM fee for getting cash from PNC bank (soooo annoying)
$28 - Farmer's Market goodies (cucumbers, cilantro, onions, the best fresh mozz you can buy in DC and MORE TOMATOES!!)
$17.68 - cleaning supplies and a 6-pack of Harpoon IPA to get me through an afternoon/evening of cleaning, de-cluttering, and re-arranging the furniture in mt apartment
$5 - added to my laundry card to do the 4 loads that have accumulated over the past couple weeks
$4.79 - pint of Ben and Jerry's Peach Cobbler icecream as a treat for getting so much done in the apartment

Total: $58.47

I got so much done on Sunday that has been bugging me for a while, and it felt so good! With all the travel and craziness and general lethargy and inertia that I have been feeling, my cute little studio apartment was becoming very cluttered and very dirty. Gross. I think the key to studio-apartment living is to keep it clean and un-cluttered, so that the little space you have seems bigger (guess this is a 'duh' sort of thing, but it's easy to let it slide.) So after a day of totally chilling out on Saturday, I woke up at 10am on Sunday morning, went to church (St. Matthews - a very progressive, very gay church in Dupont Circle - was great to be there!), ran into my co-worker Patrick at the service, we went to the Farmer's Market, I stopped at the Metro K for cleaning supplies and beer, and then went home to:

1) Organize my closet
2) Take two full garbage bags of clothes to the donation center (these two bags of clothes have been sitting in my apartment for 3-4 months . . or longer. )
3) Clean and de-clutter my foyer area, including dealing with my desk/dumping ground, where the last 6-7 months of my life could be seen in various layers of old mail, discarded receipts, beer caps, magazines, books and newspapers and assorted crap. It was practically an archaelogical dig.
4) Clean and de-clutter my living room/bedroom. This was more of the same, although less intense, but included a lot more dusting and spot-vaccuming, because I also decided to . .
5) Re-arrange all the furniture. By myself. Ow. I think I like the new arrangement better, but either way it's staying this way for a while. I am SORE.
6) Do all my laundry
7) Take out all my trash

I also made myself fresh salsa and mozz and tomatoes to snack on throughout all of the above. Finished up around 8pm, watched Ron Burgundy: Anchorman, and fell asleep, very tired but feeling very satisfied. I still have to finish up with the following things over the next week:

8) Clean my bathroom.
9) Mop my floors (I need to buy a mop first)
10) Re-hang all my artwork + new pictures from IBYC (with the re-arranged furniture this is a necessity, and will also be totally fun!)
11) Clean my kitchen, particularly my stove.
12) Take out all my recycling.