It is snowing here in Maine. A nice little nor'easter. We are getting about 8" (more or less) of snow. I took today off from work as I do not drive in snow. Not saying I can't, I just chose not to. If the roads are so bad that a school bus can't maneuver them, I feel pretty safe saying I shouldn't be on them either. I am the lead car in a 12 car train, with me gripping the wheel tightly, heart pounding, driving 30 miles an hour in a 50 mph zone. Not worth it.
So, what did I do for "fun" today?? I cleaned our bathroom. I sorted through alot of clothes that Salvation Army is going to be getting. I found out Salvation Army takes magazines, thereby saving a dump somewhere of the mountainous piles of magazines I've been keeping (hoarding).
We have 2 full baths. For some insane reason however everyone in our home uses our master bath. The kids bathroom is clean. Our bathroom looks like a football team locker room following a party. On a good day. Today was NOT a good day.
It appears to be common knowledge in our home (among our kids at least) that garbage cans expand to hold garbage put in them, above and beyond the current size they are. I don't know how else to explain it. Once the can is full, my family keeps on dumping more and more garbage in. It backs up the wall, it topples over to the floor, it gets itself up and into our laundry hamper. And three teenage/young adult kids can not figure out that if you empty the container into the large plastic bag I've provided for just such a moment as this, put a new plastic grocery bag into the now empty garbage can, mom will stop screaming and carrying on like a deranged gorilla in heat. Apparently the current assumption is that garbage removal causes brain damage. Or watching mom go all nut-so and fruit loops on your butt is funny. Or both. Which is why a bad day at work is sometimes better than a good day at home.
Our tub/mud bath was a disgrace. I realized it was dirty but was busy cleaning other dirtier rooms and finally when I got to it, it resembled our garden during spring planting. Nothing was cutting that mess. In frustration, I googled "how to clean a dirty tub" when someone wrote "try borax". Well, lo and behold, God must have been smiling down on me cause in my pantry downstairs (of COURSE it was downstairs!) is a 5 gallon bucket of borax! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I sprinkled it on, let it sit and TA DA!!!!! Nice, clean bathroom!
Other people go camping on their vacations. Other people go see movies, go out to eat, visit with friends.....I scrub bathrooms. I am now officially crazy.
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