I’m just about done decorating. I need to get new stockings for Adam and Aidan. Seems one of the cats left a “present” (in the form of pee) on those two particular stockings, and I didn’t find it until this year, when I went to hang them. Luckily, only those two stockings got hit. Aidan’s was personalized, which was a shame, but the pee didn’t get the name so I cut it out and hung it in his room. Not a total loss. And now I get to go buy more stockings!
My non-peed on stocking
Thursday, I complained on twitter that I failed at being a grown-up. And I had. I’d gotten some disappointing news, which put me in a funk that resulted in me not accomplishing a dang thing except playing on the computer for hours. And reading. And playing “dozer” games on my iPhone. And also Whirly Word. Adam read my tweet and asked why I felt that way, and I told him that it was because I was supposed to clean and I didn’t. He said that there was no point in cleaning now because I’d just be doing it all over again on December 19, the day before Aidan and my mom arrive for Christmas. I tried to tell him that if I cleaned now, that the work would be less by then, but he thinks that if I clean now, we’ll just mess it all back up and I’d have ended up doing twice the cleaning.
I couldn’t articulate that if I cleaned now, then I wouldn’t have to clean the normal mess by then PLUS the accumulation from not cleaning this weekend as well. The words just wouldn’t come. My brain had turned to mush from all the games I’d been playing. So he made me some tea and that was that.
When he cleans, he sees only the obvious, big picture messes and clutter. And he doesn’t see any point in cleaning all the time because the big, obvious messes aren’t always there. I see almost all the messes, and I can especially see the little details. He does the heavy lifting (taking out the trash, cleaning the fridge, scrubbing the stove, mopping the floor) while I handle the littler things (scrubbing faucets, cleaning mirrors, dusting, etc.). So, I guess what I need to say is that if I am not taking care of those little details all the time, or at least every week or so, then the big messes will come sooner and with more impact. And if I waited until the last minute to do all my holiday cleaning, I’d be looking UGLY come December 19. So, it’s always better, in my opinion, to do a little bit every week. Maintenance, if you will. Otherwise, the clutter will just build up and cleaning day will be exhausting and overwhelming. So I cleaned today because I can’t, in good conscience, decorate while the place is messy.
Friday, I pulled out the rest of the decorations and got to work. I even wrapped a few presents! I’m not totally hopeless!
The snow family salutes me.
More ornaments. Why? Because I like them.
See what I did there?
So, all I have to do is stay on top of the cleaning, and all should be OK. 🙂
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Ten days till my birthday. God help me.
Cleaning blows. My husband works 6 days a week, up to like 70 hours a week at a very physical job. So I really don't ask for much of him around the house after all that. He does the sweeping and mopping (pretty much because I hate it) and nearly everything else falls to me. I work full time as well, but I sit at a desk and sometimes screw around on Facebook and read blogs while I work, so we are in two different worlds when it comes to working! I am looking around now at piles of crap that need to be picked up and put away. I generally feel better when the house is organized and picked up.
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I agree. I definitely feel better once the place is all picked up and organized. But organizing and everything… gah. It's so tedious and hard! Especially putting away clothes. That's the worst.
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I am sitting here looking around my room going I have clothes everywhere. Now my floor is clean my clothes are clean I just refuse to get up and put them in my closet. I have been lazy for like 2 months. I just have no ambition. Then one day its pure bleach a toothbrush and a crazy woman.
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OH MY GOD I am the same way!!!! I do not like putting away clothes. They're clean–Adam was nice enough to lug the clothing to the laundry mat and do all the laundry. But now I have to fold them and find a place to put them. THAT is not fun.
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I hear ya on the laundry detail. Nothing depresses me more. I need a live in house cleaner just for laundry alone! Cleaning…is for the birds. It monopolizes to much of my time. I'd so much rather be doing anything else but. However, I love a clean house because clutter makes me depressed. Plus, I can't stand the feeling of being unorganized. This drives me nuts! So alas, I have to suck it up and clean. I do try to do a little bit each day, it so helps.
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I don't mind DOING laundry. I LIKE doing laundry. It's the folding and putting away that I don't like!
Clutter depresses me as well. Feng shui definitely at play there.
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