Filed under: In Which I Try Again | Tags: Basic Housekeeping, Things I Do Not Like
So. I kinda sorta never mentioned it again, but you know the bold plan I announced some months ago involving not living in a pigsty? Yeah. Didn’t quite happen. I think I kept the flat clean for about two days. Well, clean-ish. I sunk back into my slothful ways fairly quickly, and kept quiet about the whole thing. It was okay at the time, as hey – it was my washing up. It was my dirty laundry. They were my cockroaches. We cool, G.
But things changed. You see, a few months ago, I began living in sin with a certain damn fool who wouldn’t know good music if it bit him on his prominent chin. Unfortunately, his personal style is distinctly minimalist, while mine is DON’T THROW THAT OUT I MIGHT NEED IT. He makes beds. He washes up. He declutters. While he’s doing all these important things, I tend to faff about musing on how awesome my coffee table would look if I painted it with chalkboard paint (idea shamelessly stolen from some friends’ most wonderful bathroom). Never mind the fact that I will never actually do it. Never mind the fact that it would be a really terrible idea for a coffee table (I do not want chalk dust in my caffeinated beverages, thank you very much). Ash patiently hangs out the washing while I wave my hands around animatedly talking about how I should fill my Nanna’s old sideboard with thousands of tiny origami stars and attempt to make wholemeal fajitas from scratch.
I am Walter Matthau, even though I don't have a salami, a cigar, or a theory on what Freud might think about either.
It is not quite fair.
For that reason, and for all the reasons listed last time I proposed this foolish endeavour, I am going to have another crack at it. But I’m a realist. I am going to take things a week at a time, and report back with any earth-shattering discoveries I may make. I predict that these blog entries will consist of ‘cleaning is boring’ typed 1000 times in a tiny, ragged font.
Will post my Dr Who roundup tonight. In the meantime, I have some washing to hang out.
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