My Five Things - week of 1/10

I have visual aids for my five things this week after telling you last week about the office/bedroom that I needed to tackle. I'm almost embarrassed to post this but I need you to see just what a disaster this is...this is not a one day project!! I wish I had taken a picture when I got started...this first picture is actually after I worked all afternoon in there.

Do you see the strip of carpet running from the doorway into the room? When I started, you couldn't see that carpet. Not kidding, I promise.

For the next picture, I walked into the room on my newly discovered strip of carpet and turned around and took the picture. This is the rest of the room:

This is from just inside the doorway. There's a bed along that wall. Can you see it? I can't.
Yes, I know, I should be thoroughly embarrassed. And I am. *hangs head in shame*

Okay, so here's where I stand with my five things from last week...
1. Laundry - is still rotating. Have hit a slight backlog but worked really hard on getting it all put away this weekend before starting more loads...
2. Finally took those 3 bags of donations to the thrift store! YAY!
3. I did get the Christmas lines washed and packed up.
4. I did start packing up Christmas stuff. I did NOT get the outside decorations down because we have had RECORD lows here this week. Our average temp this time of the year is normally in the upper 40s. We haven't been above freezing since Monday....so the yard can wait!
5. As you can see above, I started on the office/bedroom clean-out. I've done a little more since I took those pictures so it's coming along...

I also cleaned out and reorganized my bathroom pantry which wasn't on my immediate list, but I had reached a point that I had had enough (do you ever get like that?) And that seems small, but it's actually part of a larger goal I have towards organization and better storage for stockpiles, but more on that later...

Here's my list for this week:

• Laundry...it's going to be on there until I get better at turnaround time from dirty basket to put away...
• Christmas! I know I seem like a huge procrastinator, but the tree will come down this week! I reached the point yesterday where I was tired of it being in my living room. (Outside decorations, on the other hand, will not come down until we get out of this deep freeze we are in!)
• Continue the office/bedroom clean-out.
  
• Restore order to the living. Divide son's toys into "pack away for next baby", "get rid of", and "put up for later". Divide remaining toys between living room and nursery toy boxes.
• Give the living room a thorough cleaning after getting the tree down and toys put away.

I feel good about this week. :)

How about you?