{"id":9342,"date":"2020-04-07T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=9342"},"modified":"2020-04-07T11:14:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T16:14:30","slug":"spring-cleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=9342","title":{"rendered":"Spring Cleaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been on a cleaning\/organizing frenzy lately. Partly out of boredom, but also because I actually enjoy doing it, and thankfully now that the brain fog and fatigue have lifted, I have the energy and mental clarity to do so.<\/p>\n<p>At this point if my ear issues went away I would feel about 85% back to normal. I can only hope they too resolve or at least lessen over time. I&#8217;m not even sure why I&#8217;m feeling better, although I have some ideas, but I&#8217;ll write about that in a separate post at some point.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to document in detail what we&#8217;ve been doing around the house.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master bedroom closet<\/strong> &#8211; Got rid of some old bras I had been hanging onto for some reason. As if I don&#8217;t have a drawer in my dresser overflowing with them! The irony is I rarely even wear bras these days, but that will change once life gets back to normal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My nightstand and dresser<\/strong> &#8211; I moved my leggings from the closet to my dresser, bras I use infrequently from the dresser to the closet, and just straightened up all my lounge wear. I haven&#8217;t purchased any new clothes other than a pair of jeans and two packs of underwear (went down multiple sizes when I lost weight and am still at the lowest I&#8217;ve ever been) in nearly a year. I miss going to Savers, but I&#8217;m still getting rid of clothes so clearly I don&#8217;t need any.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master bathroom cabinets<\/strong> &#8211; Just rearranged things in there since it got messy and I had placed an online order with Target to replenish some personal care items that were getting low.<\/p>\n<p>Since this lockdown we haven&#8217;t left the house other than to take Wookie on a walk around the neighborhood. We did go on a drive one day in my car (Joe drove) but stayed close to home. We drove past my old employer and there were lots of cars in the parking lot. I&#8217;m so glad I no longer work there!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hall closet<\/strong> &#8211; I just rearranged it a bit as it wasn&#8217;t cluttered.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kitchen cabinets<\/strong> &#8211; We have too many glasses thanks to gifts we&#8217;ve received. I stacked them so they take up less space, and rearranged our lesser used kitchen appliances. We bought new dinnerware\/plates (whatever you want to call it) in February to replace <a href=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=742\">these<\/a> after I read how most plates have lead in them. I was tired of all the mismatched bowls and plates anyway. We got Corelle white glass dinnerware which I&#8217;m really liking. We bought a set from Amazon and then purchased additional cereal and pasta bowls from Walmart. They are lighter and stack nicely in the cabinets and dishwasher.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Refrigerator shelves<\/strong> &#8211; Wiped them down. I had done a full cleaning of the inside a month and a half ago so it wasn&#8217;t looking too bad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Medical paperwork and entire desk area<\/strong> &#8211; I was dreading working on this but it had to be done, and now I feel better. Plus my desk is is so clean and streamlined which makes me happy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pantry<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;m always rearranging our pantry, but Joe organized our second pantry in the workout room a few days ago since we&#8217;ve stocked up on more food than we usually do. We would just rather not have to go out every week for supplies to reduce our chances of catching anything.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Under the kitchen sink<\/strong> &#8211; I just finished rearranging this area yesterday, in fact. I gave it a huge overhaul in February of last year so I just moved things around to make it more convenient to grab the most frequently used items. Plus I switched from using a bucket to a caddy when cleaning around the house. It was harder to see stuff in the bucket because it would get buried. I&#8217;m really not sure why I switched from the caddy to the bucket in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Other things I organized this morning &#8211; under the bed in the master bedroom and the buffet table by the front door. I also got out all the rechargeable batteries and recharged them in anticipation of getting this battery case from Amazon soon:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Battery-Case-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Battery-Case-01-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"Battery Case\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Battery-Case-01-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Battery-Case-01-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Battery-Case-01-768x762.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Battery-Case-01-1024x1016.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Battery-Case-01.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Battery-Case-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Battery-Case-02-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Battery Case\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Battery-Case-02-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Battery-Case-02-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Battery-Case-02-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Battery-Case-02-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Battery-Case-02.jpg 1412w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right now they&#8217;re stored in a cheap plastic box and there&#8217;s no way to keep them from falling over or rolling around which is super annoying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been on a cleaning\/organizing frenzy lately. Partly out of boredom, but also because I actually enjoy doing it, and thankfully now that the brain fog and fatigue have lifted, I have the energy and mental clarity to do so. At this point if my ear issues went away I would feel about 85% back to normal. I can only hope they too resolve or at least lessen over time. I&#8217;m not even sure why I&#8217;m feeling better, although I have some ideas, but I&#8217;ll write about that in a separate post at some point. I wanted to document in detail what we&#8217;ve been doing around the house. Master bedroom closet &#8211; Got rid of some old bras I had been hanging onto for some reason. As if I don&#8217;t have a drawer in my dresser overflowing with them! The irony is I rarely even wear bras these days, but <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=9342\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-house-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9342"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9356,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9342\/revisions\/9356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}