How To Clean A Bathroom Mirror in Only One Week
Monday - Notice Mirror Really Needs to be Cleaned
1. Assess tools needed: Windex and paper towels.
2. Realize you are out of paper towels because your brother was visiting last week with his 4 month old "The shelter told me this puppy was potty trained" puppy. And he wasn't.
3. Ask daughters to buy some paper towels because they are going to Walmart.
4. Ask daughters where the paper towels are when they come back.
"We forgot," they say.
Tuesday - Notice Mirror Is Getting Even More Smudged
5. Ask daughters to pick up paper towels if they go to a grocery store.
6. Ask daughters where the paper towels are when they come back. "We didn't go to a grocery store," they reply.
Wednesday - Go To Store For Groceries
7. Realize halfway home that I forgot paper towels.
Thursday - Try to Ignore Dirty Mirror
8. Youngest daughter asks where the Windex is so she can clean something. I wave vaguely in the direction of the cabinet under the kitchen sink.
Friday - Husband Goes to Store
9. Husband comes home with the largest pack of paper towels I have ever seen. Eight double rolls, $8.99 for the package which measure about 2 feet x 1.5 feet.
10. Huge pack of paper towels sits on table while I contemplate where I am going to try to store it.
Saturday - This Mirror is Finally Going to Get Cleaned Today
11. Get a handful of paper towels. Realize how nice it is to actually have something when you need it.
12. Try to get to cabinet under the sink which involves trying to get around oldest daughter and middle daughter who are trying to make orange frosting for cupcakes for a Halloween party at their friend's house tonight.
13. Realize Windex is not in the usual Windex-Designated Area. Realize how annoying it is to not have something when you need it or in the place it's supposed to be in.
14. Walk all over the house looking for the Windex.
15. Ask everyone you see if they have seen the Windex.
16. Particularly ask youngest daughter if she remembers where she put it after she used it and she doesn't even remember asking for it. Realize you should have known she was going to say that.
17. Walk all over house trying to pretend you are not getting perturbed.
18. Finally spy Windex on the table behind the enormous pack of paper towels that your husband brought home last night.
19. Start down the hallway which leads to the bathroom with both paper towels and Windex in hand. Hear bathroom door shut and lock being turned just one second ahead of you.
20. Wait patiently to get in bathroom. (This is a lie, in reality I let out a strangled "arrrghhh" sort of sound to which my middle daughter came out of the bathroom and replied, "What is wrong with you?" and walked off towards her bedroom with the clothes she was going change into.
21. Finally clean mirror and admire how shiny and clear it looks. Sigh in satisfaction at a job finally done.
22. Leave bathroom to throw away paper towels and hear someone go in the bathroom and turn on the water full blast which with our water pressure means water flying everywhere.
23. Remind myself it was the thought that counts.
24. Sit down and write it all in your online journal so family and friends can see how long-suffering you are (and laugh at you).
1. Assess tools needed: Windex and paper towels.
2. Realize you are out of paper towels because your brother was visiting last week with his 4 month old "The shelter told me this puppy was potty trained" puppy. And he wasn't.
3. Ask daughters to buy some paper towels because they are going to Walmart.
4. Ask daughters where the paper towels are when they come back.
"We forgot," they say.
Tuesday - Notice Mirror Is Getting Even More Smudged
5. Ask daughters to pick up paper towels if they go to a grocery store.
6. Ask daughters where the paper towels are when they come back. "We didn't go to a grocery store," they reply.
Wednesday - Go To Store For Groceries
7. Realize halfway home that I forgot paper towels.
Thursday - Try to Ignore Dirty Mirror
8. Youngest daughter asks where the Windex is so she can clean something. I wave vaguely in the direction of the cabinet under the kitchen sink.
Friday - Husband Goes to Store
9. Husband comes home with the largest pack of paper towels I have ever seen. Eight double rolls, $8.99 for the package which measure about 2 feet x 1.5 feet.
10. Huge pack of paper towels sits on table while I contemplate where I am going to try to store it.
Saturday - This Mirror is Finally Going to Get Cleaned Today
11. Get a handful of paper towels. Realize how nice it is to actually have something when you need it.
12. Try to get to cabinet under the sink which involves trying to get around oldest daughter and middle daughter who are trying to make orange frosting for cupcakes for a Halloween party at their friend's house tonight.
13. Realize Windex is not in the usual Windex-Designated Area. Realize how annoying it is to not have something when you need it or in the place it's supposed to be in.
14. Walk all over the house looking for the Windex.
15. Ask everyone you see if they have seen the Windex.
16. Particularly ask youngest daughter if she remembers where she put it after she used it and she doesn't even remember asking for it. Realize you should have known she was going to say that.
17. Walk all over house trying to pretend you are not getting perturbed.
18. Finally spy Windex on the table behind the enormous pack of paper towels that your husband brought home last night.
19. Start down the hallway which leads to the bathroom with both paper towels and Windex in hand. Hear bathroom door shut and lock being turned just one second ahead of you.
20. Wait patiently to get in bathroom. (This is a lie, in reality I let out a strangled "arrrghhh" sort of sound to which my middle daughter came out of the bathroom and replied, "What is wrong with you?" and walked off towards her bedroom with the clothes she was going change into.
21. Finally clean mirror and admire how shiny and clear it looks. Sigh in satisfaction at a job finally done.
22. Leave bathroom to throw away paper towels and hear someone go in the bathroom and turn on the water full blast which with our water pressure means water flying everywhere.
23. Remind myself it was the thought that counts.
24. Sit down and write it all in your online journal so family and friends can see how long-suffering you are (and laugh at you).