sentences ponder housework

[psocoptera]

I think we hold the line pretty well on the cyclical stuff (laundry, dishes, basic grime-fighting) [1] [2] but I just have no idea what it's going to take to ever get to any of the heaps of crap needing sorting currently making various rooms/parts of rooms unusable. It's not that the tasks seem so impossible, it's just, WHEN? This was our last free weekend day until... I don't even know. June or something. And it's not like we just wasted it, there's just always something else that's a slightly higher priority, but ugh.

[1] By our standards, at least; I'm sure some would disagree
[2] And yes, that's combining a line and a circle and that does seem a bit off somehow as a metaphor

Comments

[stowaway-geek.livejournal.com]

"I have a kid" seems to me to be a pretty good excuse for weaknesses in housekeeping or messiness or forgetting to do an errand. Which I think is generally as it should be, although I would imagine that it's good for parents to have things other than their family to think about.

Um, I'm not sure I'm stating this well. Stated differently: I don't have a kid, or equivalently good excuse, and you should see my bedroom floor... At any rate, I'm profoundly unsurprised that you have no time, but it's a pity, and I hope you get another free weekend soon. :)

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

Oh, sure, it's entirely excusable, I just still want to be able to use my damn desk.

(But Josh found me the time to go after the sun porch, so that's one bit of lost house reclaimed!)

[jaipur.livejournal.com]

couldn't you hand Junie off to grandma or a sitter occasionally and have some time for just the two of you? Or is it not Junie who's keeping your weekend days busy? ;) (I'll second the other poster: I don't have kids and the organization/cleanliness of the house is also the ongoing frustration of my hubby and me both. So, yeah. :)

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

If we've acquired babysitting, I want to be out at a dance or concert or movie or nice restaurant, not housecleaning...

[jaipur.livejournal.com]

Well there is definitely that!!

[bhadrika.livejournal.com]

I'd like to promote the idea that it's okay to let things go. As long as the place isn't unhealthy (broadly defined -- not just avoidance of the Board of Health, but also avoidance of excessive stress finding things, etc), it can be as messy as it wants to be. If your time is spent instead on family and friends, that rocks. I want to live in a world where, if friends come over and the place is a mess, I don't assume that they are thinking I should have sent them away and spent the evening cleaning instead.
I should clean out our office/guest room, but I have schoolwork due tomorrow and want to garden and need to finish the taxes (we didn't technically get flooded ourselves, but the whole county got any extension). I will probably spend much of the week in conflict with the kids over getting housework done. This sucks. I need to step back and focus on what really has to happen -- the floor needs to be cleared and the carpet shampooed for the Folk Dance Club to crash here, and I need to air out and set up the bed in the office for MYS -- totally going through the boxes up there can wait.
Your piles can wait as well. If there's a weekend warm enough to spend outside (I remembered the allergies!), invite yourselves over -- I bet Junie would love to chase the chickens.

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

Well, except that it's not so much a belief that things Should be clean, it's that it irritates me every time I want to set my laptop down on my desk next to the printer and I can't because there's nowhere on the desk to set it. If the mess was all floating up near the ceiling, looking ugly and spelling out "Amy is a crap housekeeper" but not actually in my way, then yeah, I'd just let it go.

However, Josh did get me a baby-free hour tonight, and I excavated the sun porch enough to confirm that my houseplants had died while stranded on the other side of a pile of boxes, so that is actually good, in that I now know for sure that my thyme isn't still alive and I should plant more... housecleaning victory! (ish.)

Hm, I do bet Juniper would be interested in the chickens. I'm not sure exactly what our NEFFA schedule looks like this weekend, but possibly we could swing by briefly on Sunday afternoon or something? Are you around?