Housework
August 27th, 2006 - 1:30 pm
Maybe you have been wondering how I have been doing with the new de-cluttering/housecleaning system or maybe not. Either way, I’ll tell you. 
Not well. I’m not entirely failing to do the things I should do every day, but my sink … it does not shine. I have yet to get a handle on getting the dishes done every day before going to bed. The simple fact is I am tired of doing the dishes by hand. I loathe the task with a passion that knows no bounds. The simple problem is there is no room in the kitchen for an automatic dishwasher of any size. I am going to be stuck doing the dishes by hand until the kitchen gets remodeled or I die of old age, whichever comes first.
I also haven’t gotten a handle of swishing and swiping the bathroom daily. I hate being in the bathroom at all. I hate my bathroom.
I have been getting dressed in real clothes every day, and today I even put on shoes which is one of FlyLady’s biggies. She’s big on putting on shoes every morning. I have also been drinking all my water every day, but I always did that anyway, and I am getting better at putting things away when I am done with them. Additionally, I have spent 15 minutes here and there hitting “hotspots” and de-cluttering … not that you can see much difference yet. The biggest change is doing a load of laundry every day. I am finding I like doing one load a day. I am almost caught up on the laundry, and I can see in the future, there will be days when I don’t even have a load to do. I look forward to the future.
So my progress has been middling at best. I’m not going to beat myself up about it. All you can do is the best you can do, even if others may not see that as being good enough. While the house isn’t showing vast improvement, my mental attitude is better. I at least feel like I am trying harder, and one of these days all those little 15 minute mad cleaning sprees will begin to make a difference.
On the list for household work today is cleaning the stove and microwave, taking out the trash, and washing the trash-can inside and out … and finishing up the last two pots from last night’s dinner. Then, just maybe, I’ll get around to shining my sink. I really want to shine my sink. I also want to go to Sears and use the last of my gift card for some new dish towels. I want one for every day of the week. Last night I looked at getting tea towels and doing those old vintage “days of the week” embroidery on them, but a) the supplies to do so are out of my budget range and b) I suck at embroidery. I think I am going to put the word out that I’d like some embroidered “days of the week” towels for Xmas, but I don’t think anyone in my family does that kind of embroidery either or would want to bother making them for me. So I guess I’ll have to settle for whatever inexpensive dish towels I can find at Sears. Somehow, I don’t think they are going to end up being all that inexpensive, but I need more than the one towel I have now, and it’d be nice to have a new one every day of the week.
You know, while it’s true that I live in a dusty, cluttered wreck of a house, I am actually a clean freak. I think this may be one of the things that leaves me feeling so blue all the time. I just can’t seem to get “caught up” on the house cleaning, and it makes me a little crazy. I guess I’ll just keep plugging away at it, and maybe someday I’ll have a spotless and beautiful home. Or … maybe that will never happen.
I don’t know. I’m feeling pretty depressed today. Didn’t sleep well and had all sorts of awful dreams.
I’m going to go clean the stove now, then maybe I can convince Lin to take me to Sears. I’d take myself in the truck, but the store is in one of those areas of town I don’t drive in even with a vehicle I am familiar with. It’s a traffic nightmare there no matter the day of the week. Besides, I am feeling fuzzy in the head, and I hate driving when my mind isn’t in its right place.
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3 Responses to “Housework”
Housework? Titty Tuesdays? Housework? Titty Tuesdays? Tough decision on what I would like to see, but I have feeling those Tuesdays are gone for good, so lets get out the vacuum. LOL BTW nice looking blog you have these days.
Oh yeah, been there, done that. We needed a dish washer more than a wedding to make this relationship work. Doesn’t sears still make those portable Apt sized units? They are a real DW only smaller and run around on wheels and requrie no plumbing. Can’t you rent one to see how if it might do it? We just can’t have you making a cookbook and having to do the cleaning up, that’ll spoil how far you go in cooking — no melted cheese to burn on, no sauce that might crust — this can’t go on!
Hey, jocko. Good to see you around again. Yeah, I think TT won’t be coming back. I’m considering it a “stage” I was going through. You never know what stage I’ll go through next though. I do sometimes get a wild hair or two.
The reason I hate doing dishes is due to burnt on cheese and other crustiness. Doing dishes entirely by hand isn’t awful when you are making simple stuff, but I always have at least two pots with crusty burnt on stuff and at least one baking pan of some sort that is nasty … and most of my stuff is non-stick, and it’s still a pain to get clean!
I have never seen any of the counter-top washers in stores around here, but looking at them on line, that would be just the thing. I did see one of the little ones on wheels the last time we were at Home Depot, and that might work if I can find one that fits between my stove and counters (it’ll be a tight fit). I’m going to look at the little counter-top ones more closely, and hopefully find someone here in town that sells them so I can go look at one in person. Something like that would be perfect, especially the ones that are small enough and light enough that I wouldn’t have to leave it on the counter all the time.
And I need a stove with more burners on it. Four is just not enough. The other day I ran out of burner space. What I need is a whole new kitchen, but I’d settle for a dishwasher.