A cleaning saga of epic proportions.
Placed behind the cut for your reading convenience.
( Sandblasting )

from the NYTimes: You want it clean?.
Mr. Chethik thinks men are simply wired not to notice an audience, seen or unseen. "Of the men I interviewed, it wasn't so much that they didn't want to do the housework as that they didn't notice that the house was dirty," he said. "They didn't see it or smell it. It just doesn't register the same way."
Ha, ( Read more... )

Last night, after my Jazzercise class, I couldn't sit still. I went grocery shopping, made dinner, washed dishes, washed and folded loads of laundry, wiped up crumbs, swept, mopped up jelly stains on the linoleum that have probably been there for weeks...and I couldn't stop. Not to sit down, not to study. Finally, I took a shower and climbed into ( Read more... )

Possessed by some freakish cleaning demon, or maybe it was just that I was energized after my first workout at the gym in months, yesterday I attacked my bathroom with the fury of a thousand...furies ( Read more... )

We made some progress in our attempts to remove the ankle-deep pile of crap that were previously stashed surreptitiously behind the couch. Then we brought more wedding presents home and our stash overflowed. I've managed to dispose of the boxes and wrapping with the recycling center (it's less an earth-friendly thing than an OCD thing, I realized ( Read more... )

I am Snuggly_Lllama, camelid of camelids, look upon my gleaming kitchen and despair!

(It's really, really clean. I even cleaned under the stove. To paraphrase Judah HaLevy, medieval Jewish Poet and Mystic: "Jews are masochists.")

If you're leavened and you're here, I don't know you.

It appears that M. and I *must* clean if we ever want to see our table tops again (and in order to find the many small items that are being held prisoner in the piles of clutter upon them). Curses ( Read more... )

*the floor is scrubbed ( Read more... )

Last night, I got my second wind around 9pm. Not only did I scrub the floor, do the dishes,vacuuma and fold laundry, I think I probably burned off maybe one of those chocolate dessert thingies I ate this weekend. However, I may have overtaxed my mitochondria and run into energy deficit because I'm kinetically challenged this morning. Can't...move ( Read more... )

So I think i'm in this law school honeymoon period where everything about law school is pretty nifty and wading through Civil procedure isn't that bad. We'll see how long it lasts ( Read more... )