Tag: cleaning

  • What Adulthood Looks Like

    What Adulthood Looks Like

    Now that I’m over the hill (65 years old this year!), this is what gets me excited. I’m not even kidding. I’ve wanted to get rid of the old concrete laundry sink in the basement for years. For almost two decades, really. I’ve never liked that sink. It had always drained way too slowly, the Read.

  • jumbled

    jumbled

    Things are a bit of a mess here at our little red house. We were scheduled to take delivery of a washer-dryer set today, so I moved a lot of furniture around, took doors off hinges, disconnected the old clothes washer and dryer so they were ready to be hauled away. This left the living Read.

  • cleanup

    My Darling B and I each took a personal day from work to stay home yesterday and do a little spring cleaning. Yes, we know it’s January. Our house needs so much cleaning that we have to start spring cleaning in January. You’d understand if you saw our basement. We moved for the last time Read.

  • the plan

    The dishes are washed and drip-drying on the countertop, the cat dishes are washed and filled, I ate the last solid food I’ll have until tomorrow, and that’s everything I had planned for today. There’s nothing else. Oh, shit, there is something – I planned to clean the bathroom. Dammit! I hate cleaning the bathroom, Read.

  • Heepah!

    I think our dusty house may be trying to kill us. By the time we get to the end of the winter season, when the windows have been closed more or less continuously since October, our house has dust bunnies so numerous that the president takes them off the endangered species list. Granted, that’s mostly Read.

  • The End of the Lazy-Butt New Year’s Holiday

    For the past two days I’ve indulged the hell out of myself: I parked my butt on the sofa Friday morning and have done practically nothing since then but drink coffee, read web comics, blog and read books. Just a total slug. And it was good. But things fall apart, as they say, and it’s Read.

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