Clean Sweep

The weekend started with a cleaning day. The bedrooms and upstairs loft area were the pits, so we decided to start in one end of the house and work our way to Colin’s bedroom. The master bedroom and loft were easy enough, but Colin’s room… Ugh! It was a complete horrorshow. Old moldy food, pet excrement, toy packaging, scum-covered toys and fetid clothing all tangled together in a nauseating heap of disgusting. I don’t think he ever intended it to be quite that bad; it was too easy to put off cleaning until later, and later turned into weeks and weeks turned into a mess that an 8 year old couldn’t very well handle on his own. He was visibly excited to get some help. We hacked at it for a solid hour before breaking for lunch, and then went at it again for another 45 minutes before we called it quits. Took about 2/3’s of the mess out: two stuffed trashbags and a whole tub of toys that can go to consignment. If only he can leave it the way it is this week – maybe we can get the rest of the room done next weekend.

After our WalMart run, we hit Fafnir. Hooray for moat carp, boo for botting. After Fafnir, Keri, Talon and I decided to pass up Sea in favor of leveling our static jobs. We picked up Eddieboy (an LS mate) on his PLD, and a DNC and BRD and hit the Citadel basement again. Eventually Talon had to logout, and the BRD was falling asleep. We limped along with a replacement MNK and PUP until Eddie and the DNC got their level, then decided it was best to call it. Finished off the night with a late Adamantoise camp. At least it popped unclaimed…

Sunday was lazy, lazy, lazy. We slept in very late, and didn’t really get online until just a bit before Dynamis – Bastok. I died so much on my WHM that I was within 200 of de-leveling. At least I got a Wootz Ore for my troubles. Keri and I did some campaign battles after Dynamis to get back our buffers before calling it a night.

Sky is tomorrow, but I’m kicking the idea around of going out and getting a head start on AF for BST and BLM. In particular, there’s an item that drops from Water Elementals in Crawlers’ Nest that both Keri and I are going to need, as well as the typical spread of chest/coffer keys. My gear is pretty sad as it is – would be nice to AF ready to grow into.