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Sidequests Week 41

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The sidequests for this past week were to make my bed, create a meal or snack using only the ingredients in my fridge and pantry, and watch a video of someone painting or creating something.

One of the times I cleaned the house, I opted for washing all the blankets in the house, including the bed’s blankets and sheets and pillowcases. Once they were all washed, the bed was nicely made. Doesn’t really last long, of couse.

I also really badly wanted cinnamon rolls. A few weeks ago I had decided to make some but unfortunately I must have killed the yeast, so it didn’t rise at all and they were inedible. I had one last packet of yeast though, and really wanted good cinnamon rolls, so I tried again this past week, and they came out as they more usually do – delicious. It was nice after the disappointing batch.

During the summer, a coworker of my boyfriend’s offloaded a whole bunch of paint supplies to us. It looked like she was really into the flow/spin art thing for awhile and has a lot of partially remaining bottles of acrylics and some floetrol left over. I’ve been watching the occasional video of those because it seems like it might be interesting to mess with a bit. We’ll see though.

Sidequest Week 40

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The sidequests for this week included drawing or painting something that reminds me of my favorite person, washing all the towels in my home, and singing my favorite song out loud.

Coincidentally, at the beginning of the week one of my favorite people asked for a painting. I typically don’t do requests, but because I had just drawn the sidequest, I figured I could make an exception. The post from yesterday of the smoking cat was his request.

I didn’t want to wash all of the towels in the house, because most of them had literally just been washed by someone else and I didn’t want to make it seem like I was somehow weirdly particular about it. I did however decide to do a deep clean of the kitchen (which would have been perfect for the previous week’s sidequest, but eh). So I did wash all of the kitchen towels, which mostly haven’t been touched in awhile and probably could use the freshening up.

The song was a little harder to decide – as I mentioned before, my favorite song is usually shifting. I don’t have a current stand out favorite that I could belt out at the top of my lungs. So I semi-cheated on this too by singing a lot with a variety of songs that came up on shuffle while I cleaned.

I liked them enough to put them on my phone, after all.

As a funny little coincidence while I post this: I turn 40 this week, and have hit week 40 in my sidequests.

Yay?

Sidequests Week 12

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My sidequests for this week were to set a timer and clean for 15 minutes, clean or wash my vehicle, and to purge my closet and donate the clothes.

I will usually do a bit of basic cleaning daily and then do a deeper clean every weekend, and I know that takes longer than 15 minutes. Out of curiousity, I decided to set a timer to see how long it did take me rather than counting down to make sure I did at least 15 minutes. Cleaning the entire house took me about an 1 hour and 45 minutes – that does not include finishing out the remainder of the laundry that I started either, but that’s mostly a waiting game and then a bit of folding, which takes less than 15 minutes.

So that’s one card out of the way.

The other two were things that I have been overdue in handling. I’ve been telling myself I need to clean my car for months. It’s not that it gets bad – most people that get into my car always immediately say that it’s really clean. But there are some things that I haven’t done in awhile that need to be done.

So, after sorting through some clothes and dropping them off at Goodwill, along with a few other items I no longer use, I dropped by the car wash. I washed the outside of the car there, and then returned home to vacuum and wipe down the insides, and clean the windows really well.

So now my car is nice and shiny, I don’t have clothes sitting in my closet that I’ll never wear, and the house is clean. It’s a successful weekend.