Posts Tagged ‘household’
Range: Mmmm… Toasty
This would be the old range…and apparently someone’s science experiment gone awry. All of this will be gone tomorrow. Well, I’ve cleaned up the science experiment already. [Read More]
“You’re going to be a great success”
Oh, shit… Now, I’ve done it. Generally, it would be a positive development to begin going through long-sacred clutter and getting rid of some of it. The problem is that much of it resonates far too deeply with me for it to be trashed. Specifically, I’m [Read More]
Housecleaning anticlimax
I have more anxiety over the housekeeping service I’ll be getting tomorrow than I do about the surgery I’m having in three days to remove a major organ. The two procedures are analogous in a couple of ways. Both represent dramatic attempts to deal with what have [Read More]
Unnecessary remodeling
This was perfectly fine (when it was kept clean and orderly): (March 2007) Of course, it wasn’t kept clean and orderly. Three months after I moved in was the peak of cleanliness and organization for the bungalow. A lifetime propensity towards disorder and a little [Read More]
Live-blogging housework
(Not really live-blogging, since I’m not publishing this until I feel like I’ve accomplished anything…or I’ve given up.) 2:44pm Just trying something different. Every weekend goes pretty much the same. High ambition for housework. Very little [Read More]
Housekeeping Post #1
I wanted to write a quick note about a housekeeping milestone, and then I realized that I never did post what I had planned to be a thorough background on the topic as it pertains to me. I don’t know what I wrote back on September 3, 2008 and failed to post, but [Read More]
Litter boxes and spray nozzles
I’ve been through around 20 litter boxes over 12 years. They’ve all sucked. That cats only like clumping litter, preferably Fresh Step everything else sucks. At present, one or both of the cats hates that I’ve gone to an enclosed litter box. They’ve [Read More]
Changing a light bulb…when it breaks off in the socket
Maybe I should’ve done a web search to solve this problem. There seem to be lots of solutions posted. (Alas, I don’t have a potato handy). Well, here’s what I did… So when I unscrewed the light bulb in the ceiling fixture of my study (officially the [Read More]
