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May 08, 2007
Clean house
For the first time since we moved here last summer, this house is clean. (Well, okay, not the entire house, because I still haven't ventured to the basement to make sense of that space, and I'm still ignoring the god-awful blue bathtub with the cheap-o shower doors that all look like soap scum was their primary decoration). We had a lovely birthday party here on Sunday for GR's youngest, and we needed to clean. So here's how I spent the end of last week, right up to the hours before the party:
Vacuum the living room carpet.
Shampoo the living room carpet.
Sprinkle living room carpet with copious amounts of baking soda to relieve odor of wet carpet smelling vaguely of wet dog.
Vacuum living room carpet again.
Vacuum the rest of the main floor.
Wash all the hardwoods on the main floor (first time since moving in - what a relief that is!)
Clear and clean the spiffy new countertops in the kitchen.
Clean the stove.
Run the stove-top grates and the floor cleaner parts through the super-wombat power cycle of the dishwasher. Express dismay when they come out as if they hadn't been washed and super-spiffy dishwasher doesn't appear to have functioned correctly.
Clean the bathroom.
Clean all the windows on the main living floor. Notice that despite wearing my arm out, they are still full of streaks the sun magnifies by 100.
Do laundry. Actually put laundry away.
Wash dog beds.
Clean up guest bedroom after last month's sleepover.
Dust amazingly dusty surfaces in the bedroom.
Wash interior glass surfaces. Notice that when the sun hits them, they look worse than before I started. Reconsider the cleaning solution.
Mow the lawn, using bagger to avoid grass clippings tracked into house during party. Haul very heavy bag full of grass to back fence multiple times.
This list doesn't count the stuff GR did during the same period.
But! and this is a valuable but - the house is clean. It now requires continual upkeep, but at least that daunting task of getting it done after so many months of neglecting it for other things is now behind. Just in time for spring.
Sigh.... spring. Catch it while it's here, cuz as we know it won't last long.
Posted by cageyer at May 8, 2007 08:43 AM