It’s a wonderful feeling everytime I walk in the kitchen this past week and saw how clean it is. I need to wash the pots I used to fix the hamburger but other than that – the kitchen and dining rooms are clean.

I will occasionally update my progress on here but most of it will be on my main diet blog 107pounds.com. BTW: That refers to how much weight I need to lose – You guessed it 107 pounds.

My goal is to restrict calories and eat healthier. No low carb, low fat, etc. diet. Just a simple watch what you eat diet.

I have created a little pdf guide that I am working on which is sort of a checklist for cleaning. It is a 15 minute guide to cleaning your home everyday. I will post the pdf if and when I get it finished. Going to take a shower and start doing some minor cleaning tonight.

Another goal that I have is clean the garage out so that I can get my car in the garage. I read a statistic that something like 30% – 40% of Americans that own garages can’t get their car into it because of all the clutter. That over whelmed me but as I look around my neighborhood I found it may be more true than not.

I still need to go through the cabinets but overall I am pleased with the progress. I will figure out which direction is most important after that.

Today, almost 80 years has past and hardly any actor is still alive. Most of the actors were born in the 1800′s which is now 2 centuries ago. How much the world has changed since that time. They don’t know what we know today. Is that good or bad?

I had no point in this post it was just an observation. Sad on the one hand and fond memories of simpler times on the other which in and of itself is sad to some degree.

The film was the first to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay), a feat that would not be matched until One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) and later by The Silence of the Lambs (1991). In 1993, It Happened One Night was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” See Top 100 Movies of all time.

Compared to the Marx Brothers’ previous Paramount films, Duck Soup was a box-office disappointment, although it was not a “flop” as is sometimes reported. The film opened to mixed reviews, although this by itself did not end the group’s business with Paramount. Bitter contract disputes, including a threatened walk-out by the Marxes, crippled relationships between them and Paramount just as Duck Soup went into production. After the film fulfilled their five-picture contract with the studio, the Marxes and Paramount agreed to part ways.

While critics of Duck Soup felt it did not quite meet the standards of its predecessors, critical opinion has evolved and the film has since achieved the status of a classic. Duck Soup is now widely considered to be a masterpiece and the Marx Brothers’ finest film.

In 1990 the United States Library of Congress deemed Duck Soup “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.

The Searchers is a 1956 American Western film directed by John Ford, based on the 1954 novel by Alan Le May. It is the story of Ethan Edwards, a middle-aged Civil War veteran portrayed by John Wayne, who spends years looking for his abducted niece with Martin Pawley, his adoptive nephew, portrayed by Jeffrey Hunter.

The Searchers is the first of only three films produced by Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney’s C. V. Whitney Pictures; the second being The Missouri Traveler in 1958 with Brandon De Wilde and Lee Marvin, the last being The Young Land in 1959 with Patrick Wayne and Dennis Hopper.

While a commercial success upon its 1956 release, The Searchers received no Academy Award nominations. It was named the Greatest American Western of all time by the American Film Institute in 2008. It also placed 12th on the American Film Institute’s 2007 list of the Top 100 greatest movies of all time.

Will move to possibly the garage, 3 seasons room or bathroom after the downstairs is completed. I shouldn’t rush this and need to pace myself to thoroughly clean one room per day. By the end of the week I could in theory have my home 100% clean and de-junked. Gotta go the oven is beeping.

Also want to work on baking a cake this weekend. I have several cake mixes that I want to use up but I am getting a recipe for Yellow Cake and Butter Cream icing.