Last summer the weather in Michigan barely climbed high enough to warrant a dip in the pool. But this past week it has been in the 90s every day and muggy. Perfect for swimming, which I’ve managed to do twice so far.

Normally, such weather has the potential to make me lazy – the cat certainly has no energy! But air conditioning fixes that excuse, so I’ve been working hard on those writing projects. In truth, I should be working on dejunking some of our clutter around here and getting our youngest son’s room ready to paint. Ryan is away at camp this week, but one of his goals this summer is to paint his room. Actually, I can think of a number of places that could use a fresh coat.

But painting is not really my thing. (My perfectionist hubby does a better job.) :) Heavy duty cleaning on the other hand is, but it is also one of those things that doesn’t get the highest priority when other things are pressing. Hmm…I wonder why. :) But I will say it has something to do with motivation. And though I stay motivated to do the normal cleaning each week, the extra stuff – like going through old boxes and clearing out old junk – just never seems to make it to the top of my list.

I do need to push it closer to the top one of these days though. We’ve seen the results of packrat people first hand and don’t want to be that way, when all is said and done. We don’t want to leave the clutter for our kids to inherit some day. (Not that there is a TON of clutter – it just feels like it some times – especially when it keeps on coming in the mail each day.) So one of these days, I’m going to traipse upstairs with a garbarge bag and a will to work and dig in.

But not today. :) I’ve got too much writing to work on and it’s too hot upstairs, even with air conditioning.

That sounds like a reasonable excuse, doesn’t it? :)