mama doesn't want to be stuck at home all weekend with grounded pouty boy. for lo, mama is felling selfish.

Ground him to the grandparents!

I am suddenly feeling weird that I am making a million craigslist posts with my parents' address in them. Due to the yard sale on Saturday, but still. I hope no one robs them!

I have major issues around housecleaning, which I'm just lately coming to realize is more than mere laziness (though I do have that too, yes indeed). Having been raised by women who tended to have yelling crying breakdowns if the house wasn't in perfect order and perfect cleanliness, and knowing that I will never meet their standards, I have a serious fuck-it attitude towards housekeeping.

oh, the grandparents are out of towns. OF COURSE THEY ARE!!!

Nanny McPhee for part of an afternoon?

Cleaning overwhelms me. I'm compulsively tidy, but unless it's something that gets noticeable immediate results, like vacuuming, I hate it. I hate dusting, when it feels like you're just moving the dust around. I hate thinking I should sweep the kitchen floor, and leaning down to see it really needs to be scrubbed.

Basically, I resent that everything doesn't magically stay clean, I guess.

I majorly gave up on housekeeping a while back. I am less fuck-it than I was, but still - well, I'm really proud of myself for letting my parents come over a couple of weeks ago. I didn't apologize for the state of my house or yard and they didn't comment. Big win.

Argh, msbelle. Dang it.

Mom commented about my dusty floor a couple weeks ago when she visited, but I countered by pointing to the clean litterbox that had been recently swept around, and the two rambunctious cats whose war on my snapdragons was self-evident. (And graciously opted NOT to show her my nigh-sparkling toilet bowl and invite a comparison that wouldn't favor her.) I concentrate on cleaning filth, dust and clutter I can live with.

Did you hand off the kittens, Matt?

OF COURSE THEY ARE!!!

Of course they are.

Basically, I resent that everything doesn't magically stay clean, I guess.

Wrod. Dishes need to be clean so that you can use them again and not poison yourself. Clothes need to be cleaned so they don't small and to get rid of stains. But tidying a table beyond making room to do something on/with that table seems counter productive, because that stuff is there for a reason, and it's all just going to get moved around again anyway. That sock on the floor can stay there till it's time to gather the laundry for cleaning. Those clean clothes can stay in that basket until you need to wear them.

Side benefit: fussy people you don't like won't come to your house because they're horrified. People who like you go "I love your house, there's always something to discover!"