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Tips for Daily Living
Oct. 17th, 2005 10:37 amThis keeping your home neat and clean? Is very time-consuming. Just so you know.
(Followup post: http://www.livejournal.com/users/sisabet/311897.html)
I made the intense personal decision to keep my kitchen spotless. I also have a pretend fic that runs in my head right now as I am cleaning and a "Clean Kitchen" playlist so it isn't as if this is out of character for me. I am sure it is just a phase.
New Discoveries:
1.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gwyn_r recommended the Swiffer duster and she wasn't kidding. That thing picks up everything - including dog hair that drifts heavenward to land on 7 foot tall shelves. Last night I was just wandering around my apartment looking for more things to dust. That? Is highly unusual and out of character. I wasn't even pretending to be someone else or dusting for prints - I was just dusting because of the neat! factor.
2. Scrubbing the floor on your hands and knees? Hard on your knees. Also? It doesn't seem to get the floor any cleaner than mopping. And your knees hurt. And your arm gets really tired. I'd say it was just like Prom Night, but I didn't even get to dress up and look pretty.
Oh - and if you don't want the floor to get all dull and yucky-looking, you have to rinse. This must be whatfalzalot meant by "you have to keep changing the water." Of course, I'm glad I didn't get it because I asked "Change it to what" and eliade commented "Yes, can you mop with wine?" and I am so glad she did because the entire time I was scrubbing I had on endless refrain in my head "Je-sus Mops! (God show me the way because the devil's tryin' to break me down) Je-sus mops, with me, with me." So I was entertained and now I am planning to see "Jarhead" when it is released if only to reward the trailers effective use of quick cuts. I'm still not convinced the song choice is appropriate but the very fact that I've thought about it this much means it was effective. Go, go marketing!
3. Don't spend hours on the floor if you plan on makingheres_luck's Thai-style curried squash soup (http://www.livejournal.com/users/heres_luck/140093.html). Wanna know why? I'll tell you why: winter squash have it out for you. They do. I went mano a mano with a smallish buttercup this weekend and barely prevailed with my hand intact. Those suckers have thick skins and while I went out and bought a very sharp chefs knife just for this purpose - that damned buttercup tried to steal it! Yes - the knife eventually went in (at one point I was all "Die Buttercup! Die!" which naturally led to "Boo! True love saved her in the fire swamp, and she treated it like garbage. And that's what she is, the Queen of Refuse. So bow down to her if you want. Bow to her. Bow to the Queen of Slime, the Queen of Filth, the Queen of putrescence!") but it just wouldn't come out. I had to take a break and rest up before I could wrest my knife back. It was extremely disheartening.
But the soup turned out fantastic and I forgave the squash once it was baked and had cooled enough to scoop into the pot. Our relationship might not be the best it could be (and I might have sung "Build Me Up, Buttercup" to it more than once) but now I have soup! YAY!
I also haddebchan's Sausage stuffing (http://www.livejournal.com/users/debchan/117411.html) and both turned out fantastic (although I left the dressing in the oven too long for various reasons and so now I know I need to put more broth in it to begin with as it kind of dried out).
But then it was 8:00 and I had soup and stuffing and a salad and cold apple cider and "Slings and Arrows" and life was very very good.
And then Lum emailed me that Captain Jack is getting his own Russel T. Davies penned spin-off and life became excellent. Ohhh - Captain Jack - you are my very favorite 51st Century Boy!
(Followup post: http://www.livejournal.com/users/sisabet/311897.html)
I made the intense personal decision to keep my kitchen spotless. I also have a pretend fic that runs in my head right now as I am cleaning and a "Clean Kitchen" playlist so it isn't as if this is out of character for me. I am sure it is just a phase.
New Discoveries:
1.
gwyn_r recommended the Swiffer duster and she wasn't kidding. That thing picks up everything - including dog hair that drifts heavenward to land on 7 foot tall shelves. Last night I was just wandering around my apartment looking for more things to dust. That? Is highly unusual and out of character. I wasn't even pretending to be someone else or dusting for prints - I was just dusting because of the neat! factor. 2. Scrubbing the floor on your hands and knees? Hard on your knees. Also? It doesn't seem to get the floor any cleaner than mopping. And your knees hurt. And your arm gets really tired. I'd say it was just like Prom Night, but I didn't even get to dress up and look pretty.
Oh - and if you don't want the floor to get all dull and yucky-looking, you have to rinse. This must be what
falzalot meant by "you have to keep changing the water." Of course, I'm glad I didn't get it because I asked "Change it to what" and eliade commented "Yes, can you mop with wine?" and I am so glad she did because the entire time I was scrubbing I had on endless refrain in my head "Je-sus Mops! (God show me the way because the devil's tryin' to break me down) Je-sus mops, with me, with me." So I was entertained and now I am planning to see "Jarhead" when it is released if only to reward the trailers effective use of quick cuts. I'm still not convinced the song choice is appropriate but the very fact that I've thought about it this much means it was effective. Go, go marketing! 3. Don't spend hours on the floor if you plan on making
heres_luck's Thai-style curried squash soup (http://www.livejournal.com/users/heres_luck/140093.html). Wanna know why? I'll tell you why: winter squash have it out for you. They do. I went mano a mano with a smallish buttercup this weekend and barely prevailed with my hand intact. Those suckers have thick skins and while I went out and bought a very sharp chefs knife just for this purpose - that damned buttercup tried to steal it! Yes - the knife eventually went in (at one point I was all "Die Buttercup! Die!" which naturally led to "Boo! True love saved her in the fire swamp, and she treated it like garbage. And that's what she is, the Queen of Refuse. So bow down to her if you want. Bow to her. Bow to the Queen of Slime, the Queen of Filth, the Queen of putrescence!") but it just wouldn't come out. I had to take a break and rest up before I could wrest my knife back. It was extremely disheartening. But the soup turned out fantastic and I forgave the squash once it was baked and had cooled enough to scoop into the pot. Our relationship might not be the best it could be (and I might have sung "Build Me Up, Buttercup" to it more than once) but now I have soup! YAY!
I also had
debchan's Sausage stuffing (http://www.livejournal.com/users/debchan/117411.html) and both turned out fantastic (although I left the dressing in the oven too long for various reasons and so now I know I need to put more broth in it to begin with as it kind of dried out). But then it was 8:00 and I had soup and stuffing and a salad and cold apple cider and "Slings and Arrows" and life was very very good.
And then Lum emailed me that Captain Jack is getting his own Russel T. Davies penned spin-off and life became excellent. Ohhh - Captain Jack - you are my very favorite 51st Century Boy!
