"Olympic" challenge

So, it's day 2. I have not shined my sink--yet. However, I did do a challenge that I received in my e-mail. The basic gist was five 3-minute cleaning spurts: the car, the bathroom, paper trash, tops of the washer and dryer, and one "hot spot". It's amazing what you can accomplish in 15 minutes. And it's contagious.

I asked Chris to grab and bag and pick up paper trash with me. (This is a huge issue of ours--miscellaneous mail and other papers never seem to hit the trash or recycling.) We both made stacks of the bills/paycheck stubs/etc. that needed to be shredded and he went and did that as soon as the 3 minutes were finished. I worked more than the prescribed time on my hot spot (the top of the buffet in the dining room). We have so many hot spots to fix, and I was still motivated, so I figured I would keep going. It's still not perfect, but definitely much better. We determined that it went from looking like h_ll to looking like crap. In a moment of silliness and acceptance of our true slacker natures, we high-fived over this movement up the ranks.

Baby steps... That's what I have to remember. Someday soon we won't live in total C.H.A.O.S. (if you haven't been to FlyLady yet, that's "Can't Have Anybody Over Syndrome".)

I've off to go shine my sink. =)