You can do a lot in 5 minutes

5 things:

1.  Challenge for the day:  "Tidy up" your place in 5 minutes.  Ha.  You mean the parts I can see when I walk through the front door? 

2.  Start with the sofa:  clearing off old mail, books, magazines -- 30 minutes. (Well, some of these
haven't been read yet!!)

3.  Sew up the seam on one sofa pillow cover that has come apart.  20 minutes.

4.  Take a photo of the huge books piled in front of the sofa.  It's a functional arrangement, and if
I put them back on their respectives shelves (assuming they have been shelved before), I'll need to
recreate the arrangement and put it by the sofa, where I love to sit for 5 minutes occasionally and
look through these books.  20 minutes to take the photo:  recharging the camera battery, finding a
memory card with some space left. separating the jpeg pix from the RAW pix.  it's been about an
hour for this--many photos to enjoy and fiddle with.

5.  Take a shower--the HVAC is frozen again, so that's off, and I'm sweating like a bullet, as my sister-in-law Trudy used to say.  Do bullets sweat?  Wash the towels used to mop up the melted ice--1 hour, including drying.  The sofa looks really good.  Maybe i'll go pick up the biggest, fattest book (Annie Leibovitz A Photographer's Life 1990 to 2005) and go through it all the way to the end.  Must weigh 15 pounds.  What a treasure!!  2 hours.