Remember posts with cleaning updates? Time was, cleaning the house was a priority for me. I committed to myself to spend a continuous 15 minutes cleaning for every 2 hours I was home and conscious
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We can discuss it. Traditionally, people helping me clean leads close to homicide, because...well...here is how a typical 15 minute block of cleaning goes. People trying to help me clean generally try to keep me "on task" (that is, doing only one cleaning task for the full 15 minutes) in which case I try to kill them, or try to keep up with me (that is, switch tasks when I do) in which case they try to kill me soon afterward. And if I plan ahead what I'm going to do, I don't do it. Anything more focused than "I will clean for 15 minutes" and I lose motivation.
That's kind of my random cleaning style. I also have a focused one...
Oh, here's a thingie. It goes here. What's this thingie? It doesn't belong here... It goes here. What's this thingie? Lather, rinse, repeat. Meanwhile, you've wandered all over the house. Nothing is really tidy, but everything is tidier than it was.
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Traditionally, people helping me clean leads close to homicide, because...well...here is how a typical 15 minute block of cleaning goes.
People trying to help me clean generally try to keep me "on task" (that is, doing only one cleaning task for the full 15 minutes) in which case I try to kill them, or try to keep up with me (that is, switch tasks when I do) in which case they try to kill me soon afterward.
And if I plan ahead what I'm going to do, I don't do it. Anything more focused than "I will clean for 15 minutes" and I lose motivation.
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Oh, here's a thingie. It goes here. What's this thingie? It doesn't belong here... It goes here. What's this thingie? Lather, rinse, repeat. Meanwhile, you've wandered all over the house. Nothing is really tidy, but everything is tidier than it was.
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*sighs*
I am putting camping stuff away and the cats all seem to have gotten hairballs at once. Fun fun fun....
Yes, well. Suppose I ought to wash dishes now. Damn you, LJ!!!!
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I think I might have to borrow it for myself :P
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