Nooks and Crannies

I had such a productive day yesterday! Wednesdays are sort of turning into my "get the house really clean" days. I don't know why exactly, other than it isn't Monday and we don't have Summer Splash to go to. The kitchen is nice and sparkly, the living room is all put together-I even got all the nooks and crannies.  Usually it is the kids job to clean the living room because usually it is the kids that have made the mess.  The problem is that the kids are blind to about half the stuff they leave in the living room. Flip-flops, papers from church, metal balls from magnetix (that no one has played with in forever-so WHY do they keep turning up???), friendship bracelets, doll shoes, pony tail holders, origami...it all finds its way into the nooks and crannies of my living room. As of yesterday I also realized it finds its way behind the table that has the turtle tank on it.  Much easier to put it back there than put it away, right?? They also think putting it on the coffee table equals cleaning it up.  All of that stuff got cleaned out (and tossed-muahhahhahhaa), and the WHOLE living room got vacuumed-not just that area in the middle. I got the little edge thinga-ma-jigger and went along the edges and everything. I just want to sit in here and stare at it and dare a kid to put anything down. (Can I just stop here for a second and say that "vacuumed" is one of the most awkward looking words ever?-I swear I spellchecked it).
I also organized a couple of  deals using coupons in which we would get free ketchup and free cat litter yesterday. (By organizing I mean I read on a website "print this coupon and go to this store and you will get this-those are my mad organizing skillz).  It would have been free publix brand cat litter and free publix ketchup.  The people at publix knew NOTHING about these deals. Now I got this off of iheartpublix.com.  Obviously, these people love publix. They want to promote publix. They are not going to sabotage publix by putting up fake deals and sending you to the store to pick them up, only to be frustrated.  So-there WAS a deal. Maybe it wasn't supposed to start until today. That is entirely possible, though our ad starts on Wednesday from my understanding.  But, wouldn't you think, that the manager would know about the deal a day ahead of time? Even if he can't GIVE you the deal, wouldn't he be able to say "I'm sorry, that deal doesn't start until tomorrow" so that you feel justified-so that you don't feel like a crazy loon? My theory? The manager of publix is a crazy loon. (the phenix city publix, btw). However, we DID get some Five Alive, which is one of our favorite breakfast drinks that we can't get at Winn Dixie, so it wasn't a total loss.
After dinner I noticed, as I was cleaning up, that the floor was sticky. I blamed Daniel and the Five Alive-definitely not me and the cough syrup. It was time to mop anyway, so I gave the floor a good mopping. Problem solved.  This morning, I got up to get myself a nice cold glass of Five Alive and write to you fine people, and the SAME SPOT was STILL STICKY! I think these cats are having Five Alive/cough syrup parties in the middle of the night. Ahh well.
Today is going to be a beautiful day :)