By Roxanna Ward
Tips to getting and keeping your bedroom clean using a cleaning routine. Step one is to create a schedule and make time for fifteen minutes a day for the bedrooms. If you have more than one room, change this thirty minutes to begin with. I have three bedrooms and I've gotten my daily routine (for all three bedrooms) down to under fifteen minutes. The bedrooms are part of my morning routine and are usually finished before nine am.
Start in your bedroom and work around the room. Make the bed, fluff the pillows and straighten the sheets. It is so nice to get into a bed that is made. Pick up everything on the floor. Put shoes and clothes where they belong. Don't keep a dirty clothes hamper in your bedroom. It only creates clutter. Take your clothes straight into the hallway. (Don't worry they won't be there forever.) Make sure nothing extra is sitting around on the dressers or tables. Put everything up. Use a feather duster to knock down dust as you go along. Make sure to dust pictures, corners, windowsills and even toys. Carry a wet cloth with you to wipe away fingerprints and other spots of dirt. Clean all glass surfaces with a squirt of glass cleaner and a quick wipe. Move on to the next room. When you have "swept" through all the bedrooms like a superwoman cleaning tornado, you'll have a pile of clothes in the hallway. Step over it and get the vacuum. Make a quick run over the high traffic areas in each room with your vacuum (or broom if you have hardwood floors). Put the vacuum away. Take the laundry to the laundry room and sort. Prop your feet up and relax until the timer goes off, you deserve it!
Now I know what you are thinking. I can't possible do all that needs to be done to our bedrooms in fifteen to thirty minutes. Yes you can! Only do the things I listed and don't get side tracked into alphabetizing your bookshelf. That can wait.
On to step 2. Schedule each bedroom for one day each week to "deep clean" Don't get scared by those words, "deep clean", read on. Say Tuesday is deep clean your bedroom day. Set your timer for thirty minutes. The first time you use this method, grab a notebook and take notes. Write down all those big bedroom projects you want to do. Like, clean out the closet, re-organize the clothes, etc. Work on one of these projects each week. Don't get side tracked. Stick to the plan. If you are cleaning out from under the bed and run across another project, add it to your list for another day. After about two months of using this method, you'll be amazed at how organized your bedroom is and how quickly you can deep clean it.
Also on your bedroom day, make sure you wash and change the bedcovers, dust your room completly, vacuum every crack and corner, clean your ceiling fan and other light fixtures, turn the mattress, wash the curtains, clean the carpet, declutter the closet, and rearrange the furniture. Is your heart racing yet? I don't mean for you to do all these things every week. You generally have four Tuesdays every month. On the first Tuesday, do all the regular bedroom deep cleaning duties but also concentrate on vacuuming, changing the covers and dusting. Then on the second Tuesday, along with the regular deep cleaning duties, wash the walls, scrub the baseboards and other surfaces. And so on and so on. Until you've come a complete circle in about four to five weeks and then start the circle over with again.
Schedule your time wisely and you'll be able to get around to those projects in only thirty minutes a week. If your timer goes off and you are not finished, it'll keep another week. If you don't want to stop, work for 30 more minutes. You don't want to burn yourself out. Use this same method on all the bedrooms. You'll find that even the kids will help keep their rooms clean.
My final piece of advice is to make sure the cleaning routine you choose works for you. Mine is constantly being revised to fit my ever changing lifestyle. Don't be afraid to stray from your schedule a little. Nobody ever died from being attacked by a dust bunny!
Roxanna Ward, Community leader and staff writer for http://www.BabyUniversity.com, lives in Georgia with her husband, Stan and her three children, Kirstie-Raie, Chase and Kale. As a published freelance writer and breastfeeding advocate, the focus of her writing is concentrated on sharing household tips, her experience with her frugal lifestyle which is compensated by being able to afford to be a stay-at-home mom, as well as the phenomenal process of breastfeeding and child rearing related issues. She is also currently the Editor of two newsletters: Breastfeeding 101 and At Home with Baby University. Roxanna can be contacted at Roxanna30135@aol.com
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Roxanna Ward, Community leader and staff writer for http://www.BabyUniversity.com, lives in Georgia with her husband, Stan and her three children, Kirstie-Raie, Chase and Kale. As a published freelance writer and breastfeeding advocate, the focus of her writing is concentrated on sharing household tips, her experience with her frugal lifestyle which is compensated by being able to afford to be a stay-at-home mom, as well as the phenomenal process of breastfeeding, child rearing related issues and romantic relationships. She is also currently the Editor of three newsletters: What's New at BabyU?, Intimate Encounters and At Home with Baby University. Roxanna can be contacted at Roxanna30135@aol.com
Most people clean their bedrooms everyday. Make the beds, pick up the dirty clothes, and generally straighten up. It is good enough to get you through until the next deep cleaning attack on your bedrooms. You know the kind, the one cleaning spree you have to split into two days. It is so much work, you burn off a weeks worth of calories. Well, no more ladies. I'm here to change you way of cleaning from twice a year cleaning marathons to fifteen minutes a day and thirty minutes once a week. That's right. Follow my methods and you'll have clean bedrooms (even the kids rooms) and more time to yourself.
By Anonymous
NEW YORK June 15, 2003 -- Today, MadWaves Corporation (London, Nice, Boston) announced that a number of stations within Emmis Communications’ radio group – the 7th largest radio group in the US – have purchased the MadPlayer™ to create music beds for commercials and backgrounds for their DJs. Emmis is the second radio company in the US to go Certifiably Mad™; earlier this year, Radio One bought MadPlayers for all its affiliate groups. Operated by MadWaves’ proprietary Generactive™ Music Technology, the MadPlayer generates unique, unlimited copyright-free music of exceptional sound quality users can play with, change, listen to and share with others.
Great Addition to Stations’ Ability to Produce Top-Quality Music.
“MadPlayer is a great addition to our stations' ability to produce top-quality music beds for the DJs and for client commercials,” said Rick Cummings, President of Emmis Radio. "Many of our stations are using the MadPlayer,” added Jimmy Steal, Emmis’ VP of Programming and Program Director at Power 106 in Los Angeles, the number one hip-hop station in Southern California. “It's an incredible resource at a reasonable price.”
One of the Emmis stations using MadPlayer is the New K-LITE 98.7 in Phoenix, AZ. “When MadWaves demo’d the MadPlayer, all of us were sitting there and saying, ‘Wow! Now we won’t have to buy as many production libraries as in the past, that’s fabulous!’” said Joel Grey, K-LITE’s Program Director, who ordered a unit for his imaging director. Grey said he was drawn to the versatility of the technology. “What I liked about it, if you needed a 7-second music bed for a sweeper, you could program it to do that. I think MadPlayer really has a future.”
“The feedback I’ve gotten from our directors is that they love it,” said R.J. Curtis, KZLA’s Operations Manager in Burbank, CA, who bought the MadPlayer for his station’s imaging and creative directors. “MadPlayer feels and looks like a video game, but it has such practical application. It’s a good tool for creating music beds for the jocks to use and for work for some of the station’s clients. It’s so easy to use and there are multiple possibilities for our team to do creative stuff with it on the air.”
MadPlayer Usage A Trend With Music Professionals.
“We’re excited by the Emmis professionals’ response to the MadPlayer,” said Voislav Damevski, MadWaves’ CEO, who pointed out: “Not only are production staff at radio stations across the US adopting MadPlayer technology, music producers and professional musicians increasingly are turning to MadPlayer as an essential part of their music creativity arsenal. ”MadTechnology™ usage is a growing trend. Rap artists, drummers, composers – even K-12 music and technology educators now use MadPlayer to inspire, create and make it with music.”
About Emmis.
Emmis Communications - Great Media, Great People, Great Servicesm .
Emmis Communications is an Indianapolis based diversified media firm with radio broadcasting, television broadcasting and magazine publishing operations. Emmis' 18 FM and 3 AM domestic radio stations serve the nation's largest markets of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago as well as Phoenix, St. Louis, Indianapolis and Terre Haute, IN. In addition, Emmis owns two radio networks, three international radio stations, 16 television stations, award winning regional and specialty magazines, and ancillary businesses in broadcast sales and publishing. Emmis has announced the acquisition of a majority interest in six radio stations in Austin, Texas. Pending approvals from the Federal Communications Commission and other regulatory agencies, the transaction is expected to close in the company's second fiscal quarter. After the close of the transaction, Emmis will own 27 radio stations in eight markets.
About MadWaves.
MadWaves designs, develops, markets and licenses software and hardware solutions that bring interactivity to digital music. The Company delivers generative and interactive music solutions and interactive products and software, for application to the web, personal computers, consumer/business products and wireless devices. The Company sells and licenses its products to companies that want to add interactivity and generative music features to their consumer digital audio-related products. MadWaves LTD., UK is headquartered in London with its R&D facility in Sophia Antipolis, France; MadWaves USA, Inc. is headquartered in Boston, with offices in New York and San Mateo, CA.
For Further Information.
Contact Laurie Rich, MadWaves Director of Marketing and Communication, in New York at 845.876.6330 or Lrich@madwaves.com. Or visit MadWaves’ web site, www.madwaves.com.
For quotes and reviews from some of the numerous professional music industry members who use the MadPlayer, please visit http://www.madwaves.com/flash/quotes.asp
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Littleton, CO March 25, 2004 -- Thanks to airbrush tanning, you can get a tan in less time than it takes to get a manicure and the beauty about it is that it being touted as safer than exposure to the damaging rays of the sun or traditional tanning beds. This hot new trend in tanning is growing rapidly – across the entire United States.
MOON Tans, a Colorado Corporation is the company responsible for the sunless tanning boom in Colorado. Since April 2003 MOON Tans, Inc. has licensed over 70 locations nationally to-date and "is the fastest growing sunless airbrush tanning company in the country," states Linda Dillon, President and Founder of MOON Tans, Inc. MOON Tans has been gaining National recognition in the sunless tanning industry - featured in several different local and national publications and television segments. In addition to a feature article in the February 2004 Business Style Section of Women’s Edition Magazine, Allure Magazine declares MOON Tans, Inc. one of the "Best Beauty Services and Exceptional Experts across the Country" in the October 2003 Five Star and Superstar Guide. The Denver Post “The Scene” Section featured “You Don’t Have to Broil in Oil for a bronze glow” in June 2003, and WB Channel 2 aired a 4-minute segment demonstrating the Airbrush Tanning Technique of MOON Tans in May 2003.
What has prompted this revolutionary technique to tanning? “The general population is becoming increasingly aware of the damage of any kind of UV Rays – and we all know that exposing our skin to these kind of damaging effects potentially increases the risk of skin cancer” says Dillon.
“The excitement about airbrush tanning has been astounding and contagious because until recently we didn’t have a good alternative to spending time in a tanning bed or under the damaging rays of the sun to obtain that healthy golden glow.” adds Dillon.
“MOON Tans looks great,” says Penny Vesel of Denver. “I was a sun worshiper, tanning bed regular and frequent user of almost every self-tanning cream on the market. I am so excited to have found this alternative –the fact that it is safe is paramount and it is totally natural looking” adds Vesel. Penny’s excitement about MOON Tans prompted her to quit her job to become a sales representative for MOON Tans. “This is too incredible not to share, I want people to know there IS a safe, great looking alternative!” states Vesel.
This revolutionary tan is delivered through an airbrush by a trained technician. The company has spent over a year and a half perfecting their tanning solution before introducing it to the market last spring. It has since proven to bronze over 30,000 clients with unsurpassed quality, consistency and effectiveness. "We have produced a formula that provides the client with the natural glow of spending time in the sun –without any damage or the streaks and orange hue that is often found when using over the counter self tanners” says Dillon.
Women (and more recently men) have been in search for the “perfect tan” since the 1960’s with the introduction of Quick Tan (QT). Although many of the over the counter treatments provide a tan, many are messy, hard to apply, stain clothing and often leave the user with “orange hands, feet and streaks galore”. “I really like looking tan, but I can’t ever get the sunless tanning lotions to look good and I am not willing to subject my skin to the damage of the sun or tanning beds” says Terri Anuszewski of Aspen. “I love how natural I look and how quick and easy getting a MOON Tan is” she says.
Many ingredients are the same in both the over-the-counter self tanning lotions and the airbrush tanning solution; the active ingredient being DHA, a natural derivative of sugar, creates a chemical reaction with the amino acids in the skin providing the pigment of the skin to darken. DHA is safe; it has been tested and approved by the FDA for over 30 years.
MOON Tans has taken this incredible new trend to a new level. How can you possible get a flawless tan? “It’s simple really” says Dillon. The "MOON Mist" tanning solution is applied to the clients' skin with an airbrush. During the application, the MOON Mist Solution dries almost instantly; is odorless and provides a glowing, golden tan. Dillon also states that, "Because we care about the condition of our client's tan, we have developed our MOON Mist solution to rejuvenate the skin, leaving skin feeling smooth, silky and healthy. A growing number of our clients have previously had skin cancer and have been directed by their doctors to stay out of the sun completely. They are thrilled to have this tanning alternative." The client's comfort level with the technician and salon policy usually dictates what to/not to wear while being tanned.
One session takes about 15 minutes for the technician to apply and the solution dries almost instantly and develops over a period of 6-8 hours. Two sessions are recommended to build a base tan, and once established, the tan will last anywhere from 7-10 days. MOON Tans doesn't dye the skin, it creates the same reaction the sun does, without all the harmful UV rays, "leaving the client with a very natural looking tan”.
Linda Dillon is founder and president of MOON Tans, Inc. a Colorado company that offers complete sunless airbrush tanning systems, tanning solutions and related skin care products. For more information, please contact MOON Tans at 303-979-5901 or visit the web site at www.moontans.com.
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