keep up with the dishes

It does take more work, but I like always having a place to set things down and work.

It didn’t look like this for every second of every day, but it looked like this at least for a few moments each day.

_{picture of my spotless countertops on the way… computer troubles preventing me from uploading it}

Last night I had a long phone conversation with an old friend while I cleaned the kitchen. I took my time and did more than just the dishes, and it was so nice to really talk with someone I am often too busy or distracted to really be present for.

It’s a weeknight, and the kitchen is still spotless—without a dirty dish in sight. But can I keep it up?

I loved the ideas people came up with to make dishwashing more pleasant, even relaxing, even… I know this is hard to believe, but even something meditative and restorative that I look forward to as “me” time. And certainly having a spotless kitchen is its own reward. Not to mention a happy personal chef/sex slave (happy because his request about the dishes has been honored).

I will have to get a better music-playing setup in the kitchen.

While this is clearly impossible, I am nonetheless making an effort to apply my trademark brilliant problem-solving skills in order to improve my performance. At the moment every dish in the house is either clean or in the dishwasher, but it’s weeknights that are the problem. We’ll see what happens.

Maybe the frequency of dishwashing isn’t the problem, it’s the shortage of available counter space, which of course gets even greater when dirty dishes are piled all over. Maybe I could get another counter/cabinet for the kitchen? Or will dirty dishes just expand over whatever available space there is?