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[amanda_mary]

This is going to sound completely whack-a-doo to folks whose thought processes aren't as rigid as mine (read: most of the population, probably), but I've had two epiphanies in the kitchen recently, in the the form of a roasting pan (if you follow that hyperlink -- oh my god! I hope mine didn't cost $199! I received it as a gift a while back) and a

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[amanda_mary]

My mom had, I think, "won" the roasting pan at a work holiday party -- or acquired it, somehow, without having to pay money for it. But I remember that, when she gave it to me (she already had one), I was kind of like, "Shrug. Sure. I guess I'll take it," and threw it in the back of my pots-and-pans cupboard until I decided to start experimenting with it in earnest. Before that, it was probably used twice in four years!

I'm sure that fat drippings smell really awesome when they're left sitting in a pan for days at a time. Shudder. It's difficult negotiating chores with someone whose standards of cleanliness are lower than your own (i.e. "some" versus "none"). I've definitely let my dishwashing routine slide a lot since havng kids, though. But it's hard to make the time! Yesterday, I let MaryAlice "help" me by pulling a chair up to the sink and allowing her to splash around a little. A few minutes into this arrangement, she climbed down from the chair, presumably to go play by herself -- which was just fine with me, because it made the job go quicker. Then I heard Stuart call from the living room, "Mo-om! MaryAlice has a knife, and she's trying to stab me!"

"Stab" might have been slight hyperbole. But the rest of the report was accurate. She'd grabbed -- not a butter knife, but a paring knife out of the sink, luckily managing to avoid injury (to self or others, heh).

D'oh.

[becala]

I'm starting to get nervous about saying all this in a public post, but probably he won't see it.

The issue isn't quite that I have a higher standard of cleanliness, per se, as my house is pretty cluttered and has quite a bit of ambient dust and dirt. I'm not happy about this, necessarily, but clearly not unhappy enough about it to alter my current weekend-party-time schedule to step up my cleaning routine. But I consider dirt and dust, though a hazard to allergies and asthma, to be relatively "clean," in the sense that they don't house all kinds of nasty bacteria or really create a funky smell. Meat rot and vegetable matter soaking in four inches of water in the sink for four days are NOT clean.

[amanda_mary]

I think I just successfully screened your other comment -- just in case.

[becala]

Thank you!