march 28, 2005

a spoonful of sugar [soap]

I don't know when it happened, but I think that I'm a grown up now.

Not to the extent of becoming incredibly boring and effectively dead, but I've noticed a distinct change. I look older, not old mind you - my face just seems to have changed - and I place great delight and importance in cleaning up and having a tidy house.

I'm doing the stuff that I've always taken for granted. I have never had to buy garden hose before. It's always been there, as if by magic.

The practicalities of life? I've realised that you have to get the most satisfaction out of doing them properly, or they'll never get done at all: by you, housemates or magic pixies.

Let's just be clear. I'm not claiming that I actually do have a super clean or tidy house. But at least once a week I get very motivated and do a proper organise.

And today I was so motivated (read: bored and kinda depressed) that I did an autumn clean because I knew that never again would Fiona and I get organised enough to do it together. This was the clean that you put off because once you start you shouldn't really stop.

I wiped surfaces with such vigour and purpose that I almost yelped with excitement as significant amounts of horrible, cat hair infested grossness were removed from places I wouldn't normally think to clean such as the underside of stairs.

I vacuumed underneath the lino and swept outside the house and trimmed the plants near the doorway. I washed the floor and when I was cleaning the bathroom I discovered crannies which may have never been cleaned by previous tenants.

Add this cleaning frenzy to my visit to the hardware store yesterday (on Easter weekend? Crazy I know...) where I felt absolute contentment as I bought plants and garden hose and extension cords. You can begin to see that I'm starting to negotiate a world which I once thought of as simultaneously boring and dangerous.

But please don't think that I've lost sense of what is actually fun. Buying plants is always excellent, so the trip to Bunnings wasn't completely boring. I bought a multi coloured cordeline, some other kind of pretty indoor plant and ranunculus and grape hyacinth bulbs. Now that the weather is going to be getting cooler I'm going to plant some more stuff and hopefully take photos or draw the results.

This weekend I've also had dinner with Aidan, learnt two absolutely disgusting stories that I could only ever recount in person, been to an egg-painting party, two Easter Egg hunts (one with participation certificates, the other was more of an Easter picnic), a 7" launch and now a farewell picnic for Ellie.

Being fabulous and organised is so completely exhausting... But it's fun, you should try it.

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