I’m sure some of the regular readers are by now growing weary of Disney pictures – and trust me, there’s more to come. They’ve been very convenient for me to post lately because I’m in the middle of living in chaos. It’s a good chaos though!
My new desk has arrived in three large boxes. I decided to take the opportunity of getting a new desk and new computer equipment to completely clean my office from top to bottom. I moved all of the bookshelves, filing cabinets, art supply cabinet and drafting table into the living room.
It took days.
Sometimes it seems like certain tasks that once I could have completed relatively easily now just take so much effort. And who would have guessed how much junk I’ve managed to sock away in this study over six years! Oh my! I threw out several large garbage bags of stuff, and I probably have more to go!
I thought this process would take at the most a day or two – it’s now dragged on for two weeks!
Today I finally got to cleaning the carpets in the study, although I fear they are well beyond the help of a steam cleaner. They look horrible!!! I cleaned half of the carpet today and frankly, it doesn’t look much better than the half that hasn’t been cleaned.
Apartments never put good quality carpet in because they assume you’ll move before it falls apart. I’ve lived here six years now, however, and the carpet in the study wasn’t new when I moved in. What was once white is now a horrible nasty gray. I’d give anything to pull the whole lot up and carry it to the dumpster, but alas, when you live in something owned by someone else, you don’t have these options.
I am so tired of living in such chaos. I can’t clean anything else because there’s stuff piled on nearly every empty surface of my apartment. I can't find anything either.
But, we’re making headway.
If I’ve seemed a bit passive, that’s what’s going on. I’ve been using my time at Homers (and some other neighborhood haunts) to get out of the apartment with all of the kicked up dust and the fumes of cleaning products.
I have a cold anyway, but right now it’s as if I’ve stirred up a sleeping dust monster. I only have to be here to cough like crazy. So, I escape and work on my HPS projects elsewhere.
I know there are legally blind people out there who are wonderful housekeepers, but I’m not one of them for sure. I swear I vacuum every week etc. Yet, as I’ve moved things out of here I’ve found cobwebs and dust and dirt in places I just forget about. Perhaps I’d be reminded if I could see it. I’ve been using the extension on my vacuum to suck up the cobwebs behind where the file cabinets were, and in the corners.
I never realized how dirty the blinds were on the window! I’ve spent two hours alone tonight cleaning the blinds!!!! I guess when the drafting table was in front of the window I couldn’t reach them and thus sort of forgot about them. I couldn’t see the dirt there - Yuck!!!
My mother, the white glove lady, would just die!
My new desk has arrived in three large boxes. I decided to take the opportunity of getting a new desk and new computer equipment to completely clean my office from top to bottom. I moved all of the bookshelves, filing cabinets, art supply cabinet and drafting table into the living room.
It took days.
Sometimes it seems like certain tasks that once I could have completed relatively easily now just take so much effort. And who would have guessed how much junk I’ve managed to sock away in this study over six years! Oh my! I threw out several large garbage bags of stuff, and I probably have more to go!
I thought this process would take at the most a day or two – it’s now dragged on for two weeks!
Today I finally got to cleaning the carpets in the study, although I fear they are well beyond the help of a steam cleaner. They look horrible!!! I cleaned half of the carpet today and frankly, it doesn’t look much better than the half that hasn’t been cleaned.
Apartments never put good quality carpet in because they assume you’ll move before it falls apart. I’ve lived here six years now, however, and the carpet in the study wasn’t new when I moved in. What was once white is now a horrible nasty gray. I’d give anything to pull the whole lot up and carry it to the dumpster, but alas, when you live in something owned by someone else, you don’t have these options.
I am so tired of living in such chaos. I can’t clean anything else because there’s stuff piled on nearly every empty surface of my apartment. I can't find anything either.
But, we’re making headway.
If I’ve seemed a bit passive, that’s what’s going on. I’ve been using my time at Homers (and some other neighborhood haunts) to get out of the apartment with all of the kicked up dust and the fumes of cleaning products.
I have a cold anyway, but right now it’s as if I’ve stirred up a sleeping dust monster. I only have to be here to cough like crazy. So, I escape and work on my HPS projects elsewhere.
I know there are legally blind people out there who are wonderful housekeepers, but I’m not one of them for sure. I swear I vacuum every week etc. Yet, as I’ve moved things out of here I’ve found cobwebs and dust and dirt in places I just forget about. Perhaps I’d be reminded if I could see it. I’ve been using the extension on my vacuum to suck up the cobwebs behind where the file cabinets were, and in the corners.
I never realized how dirty the blinds were on the window! I’ve spent two hours alone tonight cleaning the blinds!!!! I guess when the drafting table was in front of the window I couldn’t reach them and thus sort of forgot about them. I couldn’t see the dirt there - Yuck!!!
My mother, the white glove lady, would just die!
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