I've mentioned it before. I LOATHE DUSTING!!!
We have dust bunnies in this home that rival in size your average bunny of the cottontail variety. They've been known to send a lazy, unsuspecting feline flying across the room when they come wandering out from beneath our bed unexpectedly.
And now you're thinking, "what a slovenly pig she is!" But this isn't true, I assure you. No, I do not keep my home in the pristine state I aspired to before the arrival of child #2. And things have assuredly slipped even further since the arrival of child #3. But overall, I do try to keep a fairly clean, tidy home. But let me tell you, this house DOES NOT make it easy!
I have never, ever lived in a place as inherently dusty as this one!!! It is IMPOSSIBLE to keep up with this unrelenting invasion of minute particles which band together to make my life miserable. I can dust the TV in the a.m., and it can be bad enough by early evening for my children to leave me nasty messages scrawled on the screen (or maybe it's my husband).
There is a reason for this horrid phenomenon. Ridge vents. Or so I'm told by ones far less ignorant than I in such matters. (I don't know what a ridge vent is, much less why it makes my house so damn dusty.)
Anyway, we have been in this house for 2 1/2 years now, and I have, for sanity's sake, learned to grudgingly accept this fact of life. Sure, I occasionally might be caught sticking out my tongue or flipping the finger at the layers of dust, but I think that's an understandable and forgiveable offense.
The real problem now arises when we're expecting guests. It's mighty hard to wait until the last minute to dust the entire house. But that is what it takes. And of course, if the guests spend the night, they awake the next day, open their eyes, and think to themselves, "I can't believe I didn't notice this yesterday, but Debi is one horrible slob! I can't believe she can't bother to clean her house even when she knows she's having company!"
Oh well. Such is life. May my dust and I will live to fight another day.
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Sometimes it might be important to me, I suppose...but even that's not guaranteed.
About Me
looking for something?
Blame Game 4 (ending 1/31/10)
- Amanda - I
- Chris - I
- Megan - I
- NPR - I
Past Winners
- Game 3 - Nymeth
- Game 2 - Nymeth
- Game 1 - Nymeth
Currently reading...or trying to...
- The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A.S. Byatt
- The Best of Roald Dahl
- Subject to Debate by Katha Pollitt
Twitter Updates
The Ones I Couldn't Resist (with books listed as read)
- Nymeth's Unofficial (so far) Carnegie Medal Project (perpetual)
- ---The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
- The Printz Project (perpetual)
- ---American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
- ---The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
- ---Looking for Alaska by John Green
- ---Nation by Terry Pratchett
- The Challenge That Dare Not Speak Its Name 2010
- Women Unbound
- Terry Pratchett Challenge 2010
- Stephen King/Richard Bachman Read/Reread/Watch (perpetual)
- Personal Reading Around the World (Fiction and/or Non-Fiction) Book Goal (read 18 books)
- Personal Science Book Goal 2010 (read 6 books)
- Personal Fairy Tale/Folktale Goal (1 per week)
- Personal Short Story Goal 2010 (1 per week)
- Personal Essay Goal 2010 (1 per week)
2 comments:
I have a similar dust problem. Those gray bunnies flock to my heating vents and under my bed as well :)
Next to the bunnies, we also have problem with spiders :)
I'm sure your guest will be so thrilled to be with you and your family that the bunnies will go unnoticed :)
take care,
Dawn
Oh, how funny! I have a draft I'm working on about dusting too! Like minds, eh? I'll wait awhile. LOL.
If it makes you feel any better, I've always sworn I have the dustiest house in MD - my dust gets dusty! And I don't even have a ridge vent for an excuse! ;)
Post a Comment