Spring break was last week. So why am I doing spring cleaning today?
I’ve taken my blankets outside on my patio and have them airing out as best I can without an actual clothes line (is it weird that I dream of having a clothes line?). I’ve pulled everything I can out of the corners of my bedroom and I’m dusting everything and vacuuming every corner. I have all the windows open to help air everything out. And I would love to be hanging my pillows and all my blankets on a line, not just outside, but outside in the sun.
I wasn’t suddenly overtaken by a desire to clean. I like things clean, but this is a little crazy. I’m also spraying the edges of my room with bug spray. I haven’t had to spray my mattress with bug spray since coming home from Brasil 8 years ago this weekend. It’s a tad depressing. But I’d rather do this than sleep on the couch again.
Last night I pulled my sheets back so I could go to bed and saw a silverfish crawl across my sheets. :sick: AAAGGGHHH!!! I didn’t scream though. Instead I silently said something under my breath that was probably a Yiddish curse or something, grabbed it with tissues, and flushed it down the toilet. And then slept on the couch.
I guess I’m changing my sheets today instead of this weekend. Here’s hoping all my cleaning works today and I continue to sleep all alone in my big bed.
Ick!
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One of the benefits of knowing I’m moving somewhere soon is knowing that I get to really clean my house and move into something that is clean. I’m excited. Tired, in advance, but excited.
It’s not even so much that my place is dirty. I vacuum regularly. I change my bedding regularly. I dust not quite as regularly but the back corner behind my chair wasn’t even that dusty.
But when you see a bug like that there, it suddenly becomes very convenient to drop everything else you were planning and air out your mattress.
I was thinking about this last night. Bugs aren’t always a sign of a dirty house or person. Clean people get lice and fleas. And that reminded me of my mission. We kept our house real clean, but still had fleas. (my fleas)
When we’d go to bed at night, I had a companion who would say, “dormi com os anjos,” which means, “sleep with the angels.” And me, being me, would reply with “e não com os bichos,” which means, “and not with the bugs.” It was funny. It rhymed. And it was a bit too true. :p