Why do things inevitably and steadily deteriorate?
You finally get the perfect haircut. It grows. Sh*t.
You redecorate a room, get a new rug. People insist on walking on it. Sh*t.
You replace one thing. Everything around it looks shabby. Sh*t.
You make up the bed in the morning. That night the husband won't sleep on top of the covers. Sh*t. He won't eat standing up and leaning over the sink either. Crap.
Keeping house is like stringing beads without putting a knot in the end of the string. Bugger.
You mean you do not like doing things over and over? My suggestion is you get into reincarnation, become a dung beetle, and eat shit.
ReplyDeleteHo ho har de har har. My goodness, Sis, that just blurted out. I know it's not funny; don't rub it in.
You've convinced me: I need to stop trying.
ReplyDeleteI vacuumed today, and already I regret it.
It won't happen again.
I've still got the old habit - but less often. Much.
ReplyDeleteI agree, wholeheartedly.
ReplyDeletethe definition of insanity is doing things over and over again hoping for a different outcome. I guess I am thoroughly insane.
ReplyDeleteThis just makes me think of my high school physics teacher... he had one bumper sticker that said, "Physics is Phun" and another that said, "Entropy isn't what it used to be".
ReplyDeletethanks for reminding me a week before my birthday that i AM getting older, and not at all better.
ReplyDeletecrap.
We are all Sisyphus pushing the damn rock up the hill only to have it roll down again. But Jocelyn has the answer: stop vacuuming.
ReplyDeleteSo much mess, so little time.
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ReplyDeleteG'day TLP,
ReplyDeleteYou speak for us all! That's one of the truths of life, isn't it!
Cheers
David
So, Gene, you get to go to Hawaii, and I get to eat shit and die?
ReplyDeleteSmart move Jocelyn.
PI, we do slow down, don't we?
Thanks for backing me Nessa.
Ditto Boo.
Funny line AP3. I've forgotten that teacher's name. But he was kinda nerdy for sure.
You're welcome Neva! I'm a true pal.
Jan, can we stop all of it and just go out for a beer?
I'm thinking that you contribute your share Doug.
My Utopia, congratulations! Wonderful news.
Yep David. I don't speak as well as you, do I make up for that by never shutting up.
Hey, for a second i thought we were supposed to define that word, cleanly of course.
ReplyDeleteI've been in your house, believe you me it is spotless, I still regret not following my instincts and take off my shoes and ask for slippers, though.
I wish I was a good housekeeper. But my condo is like my life...chaotic. I'm not sure what I'd do if both were neat and orderly. Probably worried about someone (re: me) messing it up.
ReplyDeleteThanks for swinging by the new digs.
I want to design a house. It will have channels running along all but one side of the walls. The side of the wall with no channel will have many high pressure water jets. And tile floors.
ReplyDeleteIn each corner there will be a seacock valve.
Cleaning the place will be simple. Open the seacocks, and turn on the water. The water will stream in a sheet across the floor, and then run into the channels and be directed to drains.
After the flushing is over, close the seacocks so that bugs can not get in through the drains to the outside.
Damn. You just made me depressed. But then you made me laugh. Does one cancel out the other or does that latter overtake the former? I'll get back to you.
ReplyDeleteThat picture looks like my house.
ReplyDeleteI am a really bad housekeeper.
Minka, yes we should have all defined it. Like we should re-define what a clean house looks like.
ReplyDeleteJenn, you don't know how much I rue all the hours of my life that I have spent sterlizing my house.
Lazy one: Sounds good to me. But I'm worried about the furniture. Does it hang from the ceiling?
Cindra, laughing always wins.
Cheesey: Housework makes you ugly. Trust me. I know. I'm guessin' you're lookin' mighty fine.
The quicker things break down, the stronger the economy.
ReplyDeleteyou nailed this on the head, sister. i cleaned my avalanche of a desk yesterday. hwat happened 15 minutes later. mr. lime(who complains the most about my desk) dumped his junk all over it.
ReplyDeleteENTROPY, n. The state of grace, antedated.
ReplyDelete"Keeping house is like stringing beads without putting a knot in the end of the string."
ReplyDeleteThank you, I now undertsand everything.
I went to boarding school, so I was completely house-trained and efficient, but yes, most of my friends would fall into the same category when it comes to being house-savvy!
ReplyDeleteI'd rather be "EN san TROPey"
ReplyDeleteNothing ever stays the same. Nothing, never.
Spoken like a true American Icy!
ReplyDeleteThe desk is a flat surface Lime. It had to be covered.
Nope, Doug, I live in PA and you know it.
Ariel, any time you need something cleared up, just ... well, it's probably best you ask someone else. Someone who knows.
Oohh....David! Ladies do love a man who's housebroken!
No, Terry. Sadly nothing stays the same. Or, sometimes HAPPILY.
Funny post, but it hit close to home. I have warned my once a week cleaning lady that if she ever, ever touches anything on my computer desk, I will be attending her funeral. (I don't think she's really afraid of me, though. She weighs 40 punds more than I do. And laughs. At me.)
ReplyDeleteCat, you have a cleaning lady???? *envy* I could never have one. Too anal.
ReplyDeleteLol on the door Acton. Yes, it does. Shoulda changed the house, huh?
I hear you!!
ReplyDeleteI string beads continually while my hubby and two nearly grown up monkeys cut the knots off the string.
I can't relax if my house is messy. The laundry must be done and the kitchen shiny or I can't rest.
Of course, keeping the kitchen shiny takes super human powers on a daily basis.
We women truly are goddesses!!!
Cleaning lady? Yer lookin at her... LOL. I've never had one either. I'd end up having to clean for the cleaning lady!
ReplyDeleteJ.D and Terry, two more domestic goddesses!
ReplyDeletei always hated the fact that we had a big dining room table, where all the mail, tif's schoolbooks, and everything else ended up! remember the 'murphy bed'?...i always thought someone should invent 'the murphy table', so after you got done eating, you could fold it up into the wall!
ReplyDeleteTLP - simple. All pieces furniture would have small acrylic extensions attached that would raise the stuff off the floor 1/2 inch or so. This way the water could flow under it.
ReplyDeleteLOL, LOL...Oh How True! The endless re-do's....Over and Over and Over....It's enough to drive you to live in a Hotel!
ReplyDeleteI can see the truth of it every day when I look in the mirror. :-(
ReplyDeleteYou just invented it Libby. Good job.
ReplyDeleteYou should get together with Libby, Lazy one. Two inventors in a pod.
Naomi, we should all live in hotels! Why didn't I think of that? But it has to be a deluxe one.
Housework is not good for a lady's face Bela. I should know.