I think I've cleaned but I've barely started!

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So, my friends know about the shed project (still working on the door, but things have been preventing my getting out there.) They also heard about the excavation of the front room (still in the works.) But this Sunday, the roomie decided we needed to clean out some of the space in the kitchen. Now, part of this is self defense since the other roommate got in there and took stuff for her daughter. Well, fine, but its OUR stuff not hers to take!!! So, we cleaned out under several cabinets and in a couple over the counters too. We emptied a whole lot of plastics out and found several stashes of more and started putting lids and bottoms together. Now, one of the places we got into hasn't really been accessed for a while... like a few years! But, we are going to need this space if the "cat room" becomes a bedroom. We'll need a place to put paper towels, toilet paper and other cleaning supplies, and this is the logical place. We ended up with 3 boxes of stuff, none of this "junk," just stuff we don't need. However, the roomie's nephew and niece need things so we gave them a call and then started going through the cookbooks. We kept a little over a third, the niece (in-law?) took about half, we set aside a few for our guy friend "J" and took the rest, and what she didn't want of the 3 boxes (she took 2 of them) to Goodwill. Now, I'm washing this stuff. But you know plastics, they have to go on the top rack, so things like coffee mugs and stuff are going on the bottom. Also, the roomie is supposed to put the clean dishes away, but after telling her I needed it unloaded last night, and this morning, and it still wasn't done after I got off work, I did it myself. Then I loaded it again and this is, like... load #4... There is still more to be done, but... until we get into another site of plastics, this will probably be the last one for a little bit that is mostly the plastics. We are not keeping butter bowls and the like, but - fear not - they are not going to the dump, we recycle in Austin! After the niece and nephew left we found some other stuff for them, but we are putting that stuff aside, since we are going out to the roomie's folks this weekend. This place we are going to store cleaning stuff in has pretty deep shelves, so we are going to get trays we can pull out to access stuff in the back - we talked about it before, but now we are going to do it. We do need to get out and work in the sheds, but its either been raining (like the weekend we did the front room project) hot again (I don't do heat well) or we've had too many other things on our plates to do it. So, after the rain today, it should dry off, but I doubt we'll get out there this weekend either... and then we have back to back birthdays; Thanksgiving and then Christmas... I think we are doing good just to tread water here... So - have you seen Puss yet?