Wow... I am a slacker. Way to follow through with my blog. No wonder it sucks so bad. The inconsistency alone is enough to turn people away. Inconsistency in posts/timing, not topic. My by line suggests my tendency to be random. That's just me people.
Ok on to an actual blog. Perhaps I'll do more than one today. Ooooo.... Aaaah.
So, confession: I have ADCD. What is ADCD you ask? I'm glad you did. It's Attention Deficit Cleaning Disorder and I suffer from it pretty severely. Don't worry I'm able to keep from being medicated and live as close to a normal life as you possibly can with such a chaotic disease.
You see it starts in the bathroom, as all good cleaning sessions do, as they are the most straight forward to clean. Toilet needs scrubbing, sink needs detoothpasting and dehairing, shower needs wiped down, floor needs sweeping and mirror needs Windex... simple right? Not much room for error or roaming? Alas, I forget a cleaning agent, which is under the sink in the KITCHEN. Don don don. Getting to the kitchen means walking through the living room, which I suddenly notice needs vacuuming NOW. It can't possibly wait another moment. So I grab the vacuum and since I'm doing the living room I might as well do the entire apartment. I end in the bedroom, turn off the vacuum and low and behold the sheets need changing so I strip the bed and as I do I notice there's clean clothes in the basket while a pile of dirty clothes lays on the floor. So I begin putting away said clean clothes. As I put away undies and socks I notice a thick layer of dust on my dresser. This won't do. So I head back under the kitchen sink to retrieve the Pledge, but as I do I spy the toilet bowl cleaner I had left the bathroom for earlier. A thought comes to mind. I will squirt in the toilet bowl cleaner because what toilet bowl cleaner doesn't need to sit for a good 30 minutes and I'll fold the blankets on the couch and put the pillows back in their place. I passed that damn living room again on the way from the bedroom to get the Pledge that I have now forgotten about. So now I'm loading the dishwasher, which I'm sure you're wondering how that happened... well I was under the kitchen sink people and as I rose up from squatting at under kitchen sink cabinet level, I noticed there were dirty dishes in and next to the sink. As I close the dishwasher door and I think, "damn I started in the bathroom like 45 minutes ago, I should go finish that first".
So I enter the bathroom, stand for a moment perplexed at where I left off as I go through the above bathroom cleaning checklist in my head. Duh! I needed Windex!
You can see where this going, so I'll spare you more detail. Be rest assured that I do eventually get some of the cleaning I intended to do done. Just not all one room is entirely cleaned to my minds standards and when I mention my minds standards, I am referring to the mind set I had going into the cleaning project. Since then I have wandered from room to room performing various seemingly urgent tasks in each, which leads me to another area, a good song has come on the radio that I had to stop and dance to and while the next song wasn't as good I figure why not keep a good thing going and burn a few cal and then my cell rang. At this point my cleaning mindset had pretty much gone to hell. So if you speak to me frequently while I am at home and ever wonder why I am consistently (I knew I was consistent at something) saying, "I'm cleaning", this is why. It's an endless task for me.
