The three C's- Cleaning, Complaing, and Catherine :o)
With my parents coming into town tomorrow, I have been cleaning. I have been wanting to clean for a while, but like I said, no motivation or energy. I like having people over (as if I know anyone here) and don't want my house being messy to hold me back from it. Also, this way we can cook here and save money.
Why I hate our kitchen
I hate our kitchen for so many reasons. One being that everything is so small (for example, I can't fit a roll of tin foil in a drawer, two plates length in the dishwasher, a can of Pam doesn't fit in the cupboards so it sits on the counter, a 6-pack of pop in the fridge and a carton of milk BARELY fits, a box of sandwich bags won't fit in the drawers..) so we can't store ANYTHING away. Another is given that the water in Selah is hard, all of our dishes look like crap and we don't want to eat from them. The dishwasher hardly cleans our dishes so I took all of the dishes out of the cupboards, hand washed them with tons of soap and hot water, and put them all back in the dishwasher (it will probably take four loads to get them all, and it's the slowest dishwasher ever) and hope they come out clean this time.
Our kitchen has this thin ass carpet, so difficult to keep clean. Who puts CARPET in the kitchen? With Central WA's summer-time ant problem, we have to make sure the carpet is always clean, or we'll get ants on the ground, which are hard to see with our dark carpet. They eat ANYTHING- we find them eating the laundry soap in our laundry room. Our oven is tiny, as well as our burners. Our counterspace is tiny too and it always looks dirty and cluttered. We have all sorts of nice things we got as wedding presents that we don't have space for, but a normal kitchen would.
Our living room is okay, but has one major problem
Then, there's the living room, where we have the great green shag carpet. It is damn impossible to keep clean! The floor space is not very big either, but given the carpet situation, I suppose that's a good thing. I can vacuum over the same spot over and over and still not get something up. We lose entire quarters in the shag.
Other miscellaneous victims of my hatred
The water in Selah (but seemingly not in Yakima) is so hard that it's not drinkable. We have to purchase water because even our Brita doesn't do enough. It tastes like there's dirt in it and leaves a film in your mouth. It's not refreshing, I'd prefer to drink soda. As far as cleaning goes, it's really hard to get hard water build up out of things. Both toilets have seemingly permanent rings of hard water that you can scrub and scrub but only lessen, a little.
A cardboard box is a perfectly acceptable place to store things
We just don't have a lot of storage here. Everything is microsized.
Oh, what broke today?
There are the things we CAN control, but choose not to. For one, the furnace is still broken so it's about 55 in here. Another is that since day one, one of our shower doors has not opened without falling in on us (makes it real difficult to clean). The toilet seat downstairs has been broken since day one as well (it seems like it's only missing a few washers). Now, the fan in the bathoom with the shower no longer works. We told our old landlord about the shower door and toilet seatand he, of course, never fixed it, jackass. We feel bad that this landlord (who is actually a nice guy and DOES fix things) has so many things to fix in our unit so we just live with it. The broken furnace and fan actually save us on our power bill ;D Also, we don't really feel like we're at home here, so it's only a big deal every now and again. In Seattle we would have NOT been okay with this, it would all be fixed by now.
Big belly doesn't allow for much physical activity
I'm taking a break right now because it's really hard to do all of this eight months pregnant. Bending over is damn near impossible and my body gets tired after not too long. It will be nice to have it done so we can just maintain everything. Hopefully, I'll have the energy to keep it up. Allen takes 19 credits and works three days a week, so I can't blame him for ever being exhausted.
Why I hate our kitchen
I hate our kitchen for so many reasons. One being that everything is so small (for example, I can't fit a roll of tin foil in a drawer, two plates length in the dishwasher, a can of Pam doesn't fit in the cupboards so it sits on the counter, a 6-pack of pop in the fridge and a carton of milk BARELY fits, a box of sandwich bags won't fit in the drawers..) so we can't store ANYTHING away. Another is given that the water in Selah is hard, all of our dishes look like crap and we don't want to eat from them. The dishwasher hardly cleans our dishes so I took all of the dishes out of the cupboards, hand washed them with tons of soap and hot water, and put them all back in the dishwasher (it will probably take four loads to get them all, and it's the slowest dishwasher ever) and hope they come out clean this time.
Our kitchen has this thin ass carpet, so difficult to keep clean. Who puts CARPET in the kitchen? With Central WA's summer-time ant problem, we have to make sure the carpet is always clean, or we'll get ants on the ground, which are hard to see with our dark carpet. They eat ANYTHING- we find them eating the laundry soap in our laundry room. Our oven is tiny, as well as our burners. Our counterspace is tiny too and it always looks dirty and cluttered. We have all sorts of nice things we got as wedding presents that we don't have space for, but a normal kitchen would.
Our living room is okay, but has one major problem
Then, there's the living room, where we have the great green shag carpet. It is damn impossible to keep clean! The floor space is not very big either, but given the carpet situation, I suppose that's a good thing. I can vacuum over the same spot over and over and still not get something up. We lose entire quarters in the shag.
Other miscellaneous victims of my hatred
The water in Selah (but seemingly not in Yakima) is so hard that it's not drinkable. We have to purchase water because even our Brita doesn't do enough. It tastes like there's dirt in it and leaves a film in your mouth. It's not refreshing, I'd prefer to drink soda. As far as cleaning goes, it's really hard to get hard water build up out of things. Both toilets have seemingly permanent rings of hard water that you can scrub and scrub but only lessen, a little.
A cardboard box is a perfectly acceptable place to store things
We just don't have a lot of storage here. Everything is microsized.
Oh, what broke today?
There are the things we CAN control, but choose not to. For one, the furnace is still broken so it's about 55 in here. Another is that since day one, one of our shower doors has not opened without falling in on us (makes it real difficult to clean). The toilet seat downstairs has been broken since day one as well (it seems like it's only missing a few washers). Now, the fan in the bathoom with the shower no longer works. We told our old landlord about the shower door and toilet seatand he, of course, never fixed it, jackass. We feel bad that this landlord (who is actually a nice guy and DOES fix things) has so many things to fix in our unit so we just live with it. The broken furnace and fan actually save us on our power bill ;D Also, we don't really feel like we're at home here, so it's only a big deal every now and again. In Seattle we would have NOT been okay with this, it would all be fixed by now.
Big belly doesn't allow for much physical activity
I'm taking a break right now because it's really hard to do all of this eight months pregnant. Bending over is damn near impossible and my body gets tired after not too long. It will be nice to have it done so we can just maintain everything. Hopefully, I'll have the energy to keep it up. Allen takes 19 credits and works three days a week, so I can't blame him for ever being exhausted.