No Clockwatching Today

The Friday before a 3-day weekend is always dead and if I were in the office, it wouldn't take very long before I start clockwatching until a decent time to just take off and start the weekend early. That would be 3 PM usually. These days since I'm working from home there really isn't any need for that. But I did have it in my mind that since I got started actually cleaning the living room area last night, that I was going to continue to clean and not to stop until I cleaned the whole apartment. Tonight. Not exactly a tank day I know, but it isn't QueensCare work either although it is work without question. I do have a memory of the 3 day weekend in February when it was the IS Team's turn to clean the lunch room refridgerator. And I attacked that project with enthusiasm and cleaned the thing myself. So much so no one could believe it. And I often asked myself why I would do such a great job with someone's else's refridgerator, how I wash Lisa's dishes when I eat over at her house, yet it seems like I don't do the same task with the same enthusiasm when it's MY refridgerator. In fact, I don't even remember the last time I cleaned my own fridge. I was about to head out this morning to get a sausage McMuffin for breakfast and I probably would have found some excuse to plant myself on the couch and not do much of anything too. After all, I had mentally started the long weekend already. I don't know what made me stop exactly but I was already out the door. But somehow I turned back and instead made myself a spinach, tomato, and onion omelette and made myself some Earl Grey. And with that I actually enjoyed breakfast at home. And once I did that, I knew I wouldn't just wash my own dishes, I would clean the kitchen too. And so it was that I picked up last night's cleaning momentum and cleaned my kitchen before it was even 9:30 AM! And this time, I cleaned my own refridgerator. It was such a rare occurence that I had to take a picture of it. And I channeled the same energy I had cleaning the QueensCare refridgerator to mine this time. And it actually felt good cleaning the thing. And once I got started I knew I wouldn't be able to stop. And so I kept on cleaning the rest of the living room and the dining area. I realized I started to have clutter now as well. Johnnie has his desk now and the new doghouse with the cardboard dog was there now too. Ok Ok so I look ridiculous gesturing toward that cardboard dog with a cardboard bone. But who cares. The bottom line was that I finished cleaning the said living room, which meant I was already halfway done with the whole apartment. And I targeted the bedroom and bathroom for later on today after the last meeting of the day. Yes, there was a meeting today and it was the September birthdays FRB meeting. I had to attend. i was one of the September birthdays. It was very telling that only 14 people attended that meeting and none of the Executive Management. You KNOW they're all already into the weekend at 2 PM in the afternoon. Still I played the Two Truths and A Lie Game and did the puzzle and actually stayed for the entire meeting until it got done at 2:45. And then after that meeting that was it, I declared the workday done and the 3-day weekend was on. Usually I would go grocery shopping on a Friday afternoon  but not today. As I said earlier, I now wanted to finish cleaning the entire apartment. Somehow it made me feel good and made me feel like I accomplished something just cleaning up the clutter in the living room and kitchen. Before 5 PM I had cleaned up the bedroom. And then I did the bathroom, floors included. And all I had left to do was the shower. I figured I still had to do my steps to finish out the day.  So I was going to wait until just before I had to go to bed before doing the shower AND taking a shower. Since I had cleaned the kitchen and all, no way I'm going to cook tonight. I mean it feels so good to glide along my kitchen floor barefoot and actually feel the clean. Felt like that all over the house in fact. So what takeout food could I make for tonight's dinner? Well, it turns out I still had plenty of leftovers. AND I could make a garden salad right from my own kitchen garden too. What I ended up doing was far simpler. A can of Campbell's chunky sirloin burger soup and a cup of pre-cooked jasmine rice. I thought doing that would provide me with the best alternative to having to dirty anything or clean up anything. And THEN I finished up my steps. Turned out that at the end of it all today, like i had for the last 2 Fridays, I am already up to 57000+ steps for the week, > 210 cardio steps for the week, and already over 300 active minutes for the week.  I've done enough work to not have to work so hard for the weekend. And finally I took a shower right before bed. Washed off the sticky off me. And i went to sleep easily and quickly tonight.