colour me impressed!

http://tihr.com/everest/slideshow.html

Thanks to my mum for sending me this link. Doug and I went to the same prep school, and his brother, Trey, was one of my best friends.

a well-packed weekend

So, busy but not impossibly so. ( Read more... )

cleaning

OK, I really do feel better now.

I vacuumed the living room and kitchen, and then I SCRUBBED the kitchen floor. I started out mopping it, then mopping a bit and scrubbing the bits that hadn't come up when I mopped, but after a little of that I realised that I might as well just scrub the whole thing (it's ot that big a kitchen. SO I did, just ike Ruby (I even said "ohhhh, Missus BRID-ges" and "aow, Mistr OOd-son" to the cats, so as to be really like Ruby). And it's as close to properly clean as it's ever going to get, and for the first time in far too long.

And I have some fellow feeling for my ex Laura now. I was always slightly disturbed by how mucky she would let her place get before she would clean it (I cleaned a little from time to time when she wasn't there), but when she moved out (and moved into the flat I'm in now :-), she gave her place a THOROUGH cleaning. When I asked about the seeming disparity, she said that her mum had brought her up to clean to a very high standard, but she was buggered if she was going to do it often. And as I was cleanign the floor, I couldn't NOT clean the front of the stove and the fridge and some of the lower cabinets, because being down on the floor I could see how mucky they were. But I still think maybe not having a hugely high standard and cleaning a bit more often might be just as OK. :-)

Of course, there's still lots more cleaning to do, and laundry, and ironing, and cat boxes, but since I have to be home tomorrow night for the couch delivery (instead of out playing Flames of War), I think maybe I'll leave those until tomorrow and get some dinner. :-)