It's taken a few months to get this house whipped into shape... It could have taken two weeks - but the mere mental thoughts of entering some of the rooms or closets, worried about spiders or just HOW MUCH crap would be in there to have to sort through. At times it took days to mentally prepare myself for what some of them were going to be like.
I've got to say that honestly - none of them were that bad. No spiders even.
But I've still got Wacks' room. And it's been giving me the heebie jeebies for a while now. Once I finished the huge closet next to his room I thought I was ready... but then I had to wash summer clothes for the trip, Ryan moved back for the summer and then I had to wash his summer clothes for the trip... Then I wanted to have the house clean for our house/dog sitter - so, you see how it goes.
I went to put something away in one of the already gutted bathrooms and somehow I missed the little cabinet standing up in the hall bathroom. I went to open it up and a Scentsy bar - brand new, never opened, fell out.
While I worked full time for the school district, I learned about and fell in love with Scentsy - so I started selling them "on the side". I never really did much more than throw an occasional open house and have friends come for wine, crackers and to see if there was a new scent they just couldn't live without, just enough to keep me eligible to be a consultant. I created a spot in what's now housing ALL of the books and movies in the spare bedroom - but even that was makeshift. Always with the thought that I'd eventually organize and make an appropriate spot. ("Ha! Right!" was usually my thought to myself)
But now I have. And I have ORGANIZED space (with the exception of the OLD Scentsy space.) So it hit me when that bar fell out that I HAVE organized, I AM organized AND I still love Scentsy. So... why not pick it up again?
When I "left" Scentsy - my sales had just started to pick up, I'd been elevated in the consultant system, but times were crazy and some things just had to go. I read that if and when I wanted to return - it had to be at least 6 months after my account was deactivated and THEN I'd have to explain why I'd left in the first place and why I felt I could come back. So I went to task on it (since Zach's room still seems such a daunting task) and *POOF!!* just like that, I'm up and running again.
I have to wait to receive new catalogs and order forms and the smelling samples (as there are many new ones since having left 2 and a half years ago) but the site is up, the favorites are all there and the catalog is online. <shrug>
The only thing is - now that I'm this organized - I've mostly run out of excuses why Zach's room can't have my undivided attention.
The good news is - once his room is done, repainted (yes... during Ryan's second year at WSU I painted his room a stylish khaki with Crimson to go with it. I ordered a WSU flag for the wall and a WSU bear for the bed...) I told Wack I would do the same for his room. ANNNNDDDDD now, once I'm done, we know it will smell nice!
Some people wonder "What about the EWU Eagle?" Why doesn't he get a room painted EWU colors? Well... because most of our family photos, and much of his football and sports career hang in most of the rooms of our house. He is well represented! No fretting to be had there.
So - for the next week or so, my Scentsy plug in is back in in the hall bathroom, with the scent I found in the bathroom. Poinsettia Pine. Yep... a Christmas scent. No matter... still smells fantabulous! But I'm really looking forward to Cherry Limeade and Sugar Cookie, of course!
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