What happens when you are motivated

You will move heaven and earth to get things done.

Case in point today - or rather early hours of this morning. The house alarm decided to throw a hissy fit and started to set itself, and re-set itself and set itself. Every few minutes for hours. It annoyed the hell out of me - the cold was seeping through my toes and I couldn't go back to bed, because every time i did, the alarm would start again. So I checked every drawer for the keys to the box - every random key in the house was checked - nothing. Phoned the alarm company number on the box - personal voice message - i did apologise, well it was 4.30 am by this point. Turned the computer on and searched white pages. Irony - i'd only thrown away the paper copies that weekend cos we didn't use them. Found the number a 1300 number - thank goodness the company still existed. Well I hadn't had to call them before then, so didn't need to find out. Left a message - tell me how to disconnect the darn thing. And a mobile number - it was turned off but - I left a message anyway. By 7.30 am I was at a loss. The kids had had to suffer through the nightmare, made worse by a neighbour - who rather than inquiring as to whether a single woman with 2 kids was OK, he threatened me with an axe. Needless to say I will be paying him a visit in the cold night one of these days.

7.30am I tried the mobile number again - thankfully he answered...and even better he said he'd be with me as soon as he could. By 8.00am he was at the house and the problem was sorted. $88 later - an absolute bargain.

But the exercise also highlighted another problem for me - my cupboard - looked disgusting....untidy, bags and bits n pieces all over the floor. Don't get me wrong I will periodically clean the cupboard out...just with 2 kids and 2 cats helping to make a mess on a daily basis, it can feel like I'm cleaning the forth bridge...as in - it never stops.

So after getting the kids off to school, and a bit of a snooze, I've been using my enforced day off to make some inroads into cleaning the kitchen cupboards....properly.