I don't think there's any household chore that feels more domestic to me than ironing. Mostly I iron placemats, but all of them and two shirts and a pair of slacks was up for ironing this laundry cycle, so I spent a while doing that. It's annoying at first (I don't really like ironing!) but there's a sort of zen to it that crops up if I'm not ( Read more... )

I love it when I can go to a couple of stores and get every single thing on my list. That never happens when I'm shopping at Wal-Mart. And it's a super-WM too, which makes it even more frustrating. But today I hit up Safeway and Wegmans, and I didn't have a very long list, so I got to feel the warm glow of having checked everything off my list for ( Read more... )

I fail at kitchens. :P Meaning, I almost never, ever clean mine properly! Dishes everywhere 90% of the time. And then I only clean up a bit in order to make a new cooking mess. Augh. You know, I resolved to myself to be better about this, and then I got WORSE. How does THAT work?? Sigh. At least some of the ADD I seem to be developing kinda works ( Read more... )

Lookit me spamming LJ whoohoo! LOL ( Read more... )

My husband is a neater soul than I. This is strange, considering that my sister used to regularly accuse me of being a "neat freak" when we shared the same room at home, and I went through four years of college with the threat of room inspection demerits in ROTC. I also find it strange since the men in my family - my Dad and brother - are both ( Read more... )

I need to clean the bathroom. I dislike cleaning bathrooms, but I need to do it anyway. *procrastinates some more ( Read more... )

( Starting with people who think wealth disparity between the richest and poorest people in America is somehow a bad thing... )