WOW! I sat at work all day today with barely enough energy to keep my head up and my eyes open. Came home from work and made mostaccioli for my brother, cleaned the kitchen, swept & scrubbed the kitchen & dining room floors, swept the snap n pops off the garage floor, and started to straighten up the living room. Now I'm starting to lose that energy. But I really need to keep on going....so that way I am not cleaning tonight and tomorrow night and the next night...and so on and so on...

Because tomorrow night I need to work on laundry. OMG...it just never ends! One of these days I WILL hire a cleaning service!
Oh yeah...speaking of my brother...he seems to be doing great!!! He's actually a couple inches taller than he was now that his back is "fixed". I was talking to him and realized I was looking up at him instead of straight at him. He said he hasn't noticed any pain in his foot like he used to get. So...I'm really excited so far at the good signs the surgery has brought already. But they warned him...it could take up to a year before he's feeling 100% better. I'm sure he'll take a year over never like he was beginning to think it was going to be.
And his house looks and smells much better after my mom spent NINE hours cleaning it. It's still cluttered, but it doesn't seem to be sticky and dirty everywhere. But, I'm sure time will cure that!
Ok....I'm off to go clean some more in the living room. Then I gotta run the vacuum and sweep and scrub the foyer floor.
Michael - you mentioned the catamaran....we did that many cruises ago and it was a blast!!! You can really get going fast on that.