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November 14, 2007
Pigs shed less than cats
I think I’m a nicer person when I don’t clean.
I get really pissed off when I think the carpet is filthy, but I can’t tell any difference in the yuck level after I’ve vacuumed. I get mad at myself for not noticing just how disgusting it was before we moved in, and insisting that it be replaced or cleaned before we signed a lease. Then again, with our last minute procrastinator’s schedule, we probably didn’t really have the luxury, anyway.
The carpet, though, that’s circumstantial. Although finding a blop of cat fur on a freshly vacuumed clean carpet steams me a little too. What really kind of gets me is when I clean, say, the kitchen. And then less than an hour later, Katie guts a sandwich and dumps a cupful of juice on my freshly mopped and swept floor. And when she dumps two cups in three days? I really start to wonder why I bother. Also? Katie gets a lecture that’s probably a little beyond her years.
I’m not super anal (ha ha) about shiny toilet bowls, either, although I must admit that my recent discovery of a bowl cleaner that requires no scrubbing inclines me to clean a little more often.
Really, though, this housework thing is just a neverending battle against the gross that lives in my house in the form of the two kids and three cats I brought on myself. It’s a good thing I really was practically raised in a barn!
Posted by me at November 14, 2007 3:18 PM
Comments
lordy lordy, if this isnt a picture of my life. The relentlessness of the chaos is exhausting!!! Loren has turned into a 24/7 mess factory. Hell, while I am in one room cleaning up one of her massive devastations, she is in the next one over. OH MY GOD while I am typing this Andrew comes running in and says Loren made a huge mess. *gone for an hour*
*back* Loren dumped an entire sprite all over andrews carpet and was playing in it. So I spend 30 minutes dragging the huge carpet cleaner out and carpet cleaning Andrew's entire room while the kids should be already asleep! then right when I finish Loren comes in and says she accidentally peed on Tracy's carpet so I drag the carpet cleaner over there and clean part of her carpet. This was after I had already wiped the enitre kitchen floor from Loren dumping (thankfully) water all over it.
Oh my god, I am having a drink.
Posted by: Beck at November 14, 2007 9:58 PM
I know I need to ease up and let my kids make more messes, but stories like that make me grateful for some of my anal retentive rules :)
Posted by: Becky 
at November 15, 2007 9:11 PM