See? one person's abhorrance (i.e., the vacuum) is another's reasonably do-able chore.

This a why it is conversation #85. It is boggling that others will happily do what we loathe and loathe what we'd happily enough do but then you think about it and it's Running a Home Tetris. We could totally have Buffista Island if we made all the pieces fit.

Callaluna, agreed!

I finally got a vacuum that makes me like vacuuming. Will gladly trade services for a good mopping!

I don't mind vacuuming, and I can handle dishes and laundry with only minimal complaint. But I hate dusting. It just doesn't happen at my place unless I'm gonna have people over and it's reached the point of terminal embarrassment. I love gardening, though.

My food that was supposed to be delivered today actually got delivered today! I'm surprised. And it looks pretty good, too -- this is a place that sends you a week's worth of frozen meals at a time. (The next few months are ridiculously busy for me, and I'm just not going to have the time or the energy to cook, so getting a box of meals that I just need to heat up seemed like it could work.) The portion sizes look kind of small, but I'll see how it goes. Tomorrow, I've got a muffin for breakfast, lentil soup for lunch, and maple-glazed tofu with kale and cauliflower for dinner, and some granola for a snack.

Tomorrow, I am absolutely going to clean up my living room. I think I'll have to do the thing again where I say on Facebook that I'll post a photo at a certain time. I can't get myself to stick to it unless I've got some kind of deadline.

As long as someone does my ironing and runs stuff to/from the dry cleaner, I will HAPPILY take on any other household chores.

I hate all chores. Well maybe not hate, loathe and try to do without.

And damnit i forgot to buy a new dustpan AGAIN. I need one my other disappeared and using a piece of cardboard isn't really cutting it. Mr. R fell down on hard floor vacuuming as well.

My pants from Land's End came today! They are going to be returned to Sears on Monday! I don't know how, but they are about a half size too small in the waist and feel like a size too big every where else. However the thermaskin long underwear is great.

The real reason Kat invites me for TG is that I try to do all the dishes. Even when the sink clogs! (I finished them in the garage tub. That was before the whole sewer line clogged.)

I will gladly take on ONE loathsome chore so long as someone ELSE cleans the litter boxes.

I'm assuming there will be cats in Buffista Island.

The whole sewer line clogged? Eeek.

I do not like scrubbing tubs or toilets. I'm also bad about dusting and sweeping and mopping. Which is why I hire someone.

But what I really want is someone who will occasionally do the "spring cleaning" things that people used to do once a year that I don't even know that I'm supposed to do? Or at least tell me to do them and how? Like...I dunno, wash the walls? Somehow clean the blinds so they are not icky? Regrout the tub? I'm not even sure what tasks these are, as we were very lax with that sort of thing, growing up.