What is it with every
time my husband and I clean it never gets clean enough? There is always
something I think I could make better, or a certain way I feel I need
to organize it. Everyone knows that you always dust and scrub walls and shelves
before sweeping, moping, or vacuuming the floor. Well, except my husband Shawn.
He thinks picking up
everything off the floor and shoving them on the shelves is organized. That
changing all the trash in house, keeping the dishes clean, and changing the litter
box every now and then keeps a house clean, but I beg to differ.
Next thing I know he called
it quits on cleaning house!
Now to show you exactly
what happens on cleaning day I have written them down for you to read. There are
eleven things I think need to get done before the house is fully clean!
1.) Take everything off
of the shelves, inspect ceilings, dust shelves thoroughly and place objects
back on the shelves in an organize fashion, and to me that means all the books
need to be in order and no, a book number one cannot be placed after book ten
of the Darren Shan series Cirque du Freak.
2.) All electronics must
be moved and cleaned under before setting them back in place. Then they must be
wiped down and all the wires reattached if they had to be removed in the first
place. All surge protectors counts in this step. I refuse to let dust settle on
them for too long. Also, all DVDs and computer games must be wiped and placed
back in there proper place. Meaning just because you picked it off the floor
and cleaned doesn't mean it stays on the floor.
3.) Couches must be
moved around, vacuumed or swept under depending on the floor, then placed back
and thoroughly wiped down as well. If there are any covers on the couches it is
best to just throw them in to be washed.
4.) Now we are down to
floor level and this is when i always go back up to the walls with a damp
cloth, not soaked, damp. It is just to get that top layer of anything. Run the
cloth over pictures, awards, and any other wall hangers.
5.) Now you
can officially work on the floors. Can all the litter boxes, though
they really should have been moved outside before the cleaning began, best not
to have a cat running around sniffing all the chemicals. You can finally spray
a floor cleaner and begin to vacuum or mop.
That was just the living
room, and hallway at my house.
6.) Then the bathrooms.
I always wipe the walls and counters restock things like paper towels and
toilet paper, because I am the only one that does it I fear. Though I think it
is funny when you hear that little voice calling your name
from the bathroom out of desperation for a little help. I have been
tempted to go for a walk, but I'm not that mean. Also, don't forget to replace
the hand towel.
7.) Next I scrub the
shower and the bathtub. I put my arm muscles to good use. Don't forget to get
the bottom of the toilet and some place Shawn seems to not under exists, is
that rim in the toilet bowl. He is too funny about forgetting that.
8.) Once all the hard
work is out of the way work on the floor. Now, we have two bathrooms and a
kitchen that we need to mop so I always do the kitchen last so the
bathroom floor has time to dry while I'm working on other things. Bathrooms are
very important apparently.
9.) Now day one I
kicked Shawn out of the kitchen because nothing was ever right. The
first thing I do is organize all the shelves and clean around things. Inspect
the dishes, because sometimes Aki, my cat, will force her way into the cabinets
and I need to clean hair out of a bowl. We're working on that with her. Don't
forget to wipe the walls and to make Shawn feel important I have him working on
the windows.
10.) Do whatever dishes
need to be done, drain the sink and clean both sinks out, wipe the counter and
the table, then looked to the floor. It’s time for another good mopping and a
caution sign for all of those not aware that the floor is slippery. Not really,
but I wish I did have a caution sign.
11.) The last rooms I
work on are the bedrooms. Repeat steps 1-5, but subtract the litter boxes,
electronics, and add making the bed and putting clothes away.
See that wasn't so hard!
Okay, now that I have written it all down that really does seem a little
extreme, but it gets the job done.
B. Franklin
The picture to the left is from an anime series called Ah! My Goddess. It was just one of many of my sketches and i picked this as a demonstration because it was the clearest to see, but by having to draw these pictures I have to focus my mind so much that I have pulled away from what I was working on long enough to relax. It really helps to clear the head.
As of recently I have pulled out all my old works and started to ink them for my final goal of adding layers and getting an end result of what you see on the left. This is a picture I had stored away of a little manga girl for some time and here she is finally completed. it came out better then i thought.