The woes of having a clean home
Aug. 25th, 2006 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeI speak with all due sarcasm, of course.
Forgot just how enjoyable not living in total chaos can be. The only "downside" is that, in order for the home to remain clean, I have to, y'know, clean it, even when I don't feel like it.
So now I have to do dishes. I didn't do them last night, and thus I shall not put them off one night more. The longer dishes stay in the sink, the longer they take to get done. Or something. I'm sure there's some sort of universal law that deals with dish washing.
I have eggs and bacon for tomorrow, and a clean frying pan in which to make it all happen. Several clean frying pans, in fact.
I have three cats sleeping on the table next to me. I may die of the cute before I even get to the dishes. Oh, Lord: a fourth cat has joined the slumber party. It's a conspiracy, I tell you.
I shall pet the cats, and then wash the dishes. Then I shall go lapse into a coma in my bed. Nine hours of sleep almost every night this week, and I'm still tired. Gah.
Forgot just how enjoyable not living in total chaos can be. The only "downside" is that, in order for the home to remain clean, I have to, y'know, clean it, even when I don't feel like it.
So now I have to do dishes. I didn't do them last night, and thus I shall not put them off one night more. The longer dishes stay in the sink, the longer they take to get done. Or something. I'm sure there's some sort of universal law that deals with dish washing.
I have eggs and bacon for tomorrow, and a clean frying pan in which to make it all happen. Several clean frying pans, in fact.
I have three cats sleeping on the table next to me. I may die of the cute before I even get to the dishes. Oh, Lord: a fourth cat has joined the slumber party. It's a conspiracy, I tell you.
I shall pet the cats, and then wash the dishes. Then I shall go lapse into a coma in my bed. Nine hours of sleep almost every night this week, and I'm still tired. Gah.
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The "Uuugh-ness" of dishwashing
Date: 2006-08-26 03:47 pm (UTC)1) A few minutes before you have to leave home for a significant amount of time (time, fun, etc), fill the sink with hot soapy water. NB : If you have a double-sink, fill out *both*!
2) Carefully place all your dirty dishes in the sink. If you have more dishes that can fit in the sink, it's quite important to pack the largest possible amount inside, and to neatly stack the rest on your kitchen counter
3) Leave for the SAT (Significant Amount of Time) mentioned earlier
4) When you come back that day or the next, you now face a sinkful of dirty, cold, unsoapy water with lumps of hardened fat and UFO's (unidentified floating objects), in which a pile of dishes are slowly dripping on your hardwood floor
5) Not being able to use your sink anymore now acts as a strong motivator to actually doing the dishes. And it's with your skin crawling with disgust that you have to plunge the hands into the above described liquid in search for the sponge that - inevitably - sunk at the bottom of the sink.
Yup, that's the trick I unvoluntarly used back then... Didn't say it made washing the dishes any easier though... ;-P
Re: The "Uuugh-ness" of dishwashing
Date: 2006-08-26 10:41 pm (UTC)Sounds like a technique I use involuntarily every now and then too. I have one variation: I fill only one side of the double sink, so that I can use the other side for rinsing and hardcore scrubbing when there's, say, a badly-burnt pot. I rarely have so many dishes that they overflow *both* sinks.