Clean my apartment

I’ve done a lot on this- cleaned the fridge today, cleaned kitchen. Yesterday I cleaned the bathroom. The only thing left to be cleaned is the living area and I’m going to wait until my roommate moves to do that (there’ll be less stuff that way). I feel like my apartment is very clean and organized. I’m done with this goal. If its not complete, its not something I want to do anymore. I’m satisfied with the amount of cleanseliness in my apartment. I love waking up to a fresh clean place!! Of course this is the type of goal I have to keep on doing- cleaning bits and pieces as they get dirty but I’m in the habit now and it feels good! Check!

I now proclaim the bathroom clean! It took me a while but today I cleaned the bathroom as well as the hallway outside the bathroom. I also cleaned the kitchen counter and floor but mostly just because my boyfriend spilt soda all over the floor so it was sticky! But hey whatever gets me cleaning! I love my new clean bathroom! It makes me feel sparkly!

Bathroom:
-clean mirror
-wipe counters
-wipe walls
-swiffer floor
-clean sinks
-clean bathtub
-wipe showercurtain
-clean cabinets
-clean toilet
-wash plunger

Bedroom
-pickup clothes
-vaccuum again
-go through clothes
-hang scarves
-organize papers
-clean furniture
-organize makeup drawers
-clean mirrors

Kitchen
-swiffer floor
-wipe walls
-clean microwave
-clean toaster
-clean stove
-wipe counters
-organize cupboard
-clean fridge inside and out

Living Area
-Sweep
-Swiffer
-Recycle papers
-put my things away
-Wipe furniture
-wash birdcage
-move and clean under couch
-Wash glass doors

Ok so I guess I should be cleaning now but I’m exhausted and I have to get up early tomorrow. The day goes by SO fast. I substitute taught for the first time today and I’m going to try again tomorrow. It went pretty well. I just don’t know when I’m going to find the time to clean. I guess on the weekend. Oh well.

I could have gotten further with this goal today. I sat around freaking out about work today and I didn’t get much done. I think the reason is that I don’t know where to start. My room is clean in the sense its vaccuumed and there’s nothing on the floor. But there’s a lot of junk stuffed in drawers that needs to be organized. And I’d like to paint the walls because this blue makes me sad. But anyway, I think I should hold off on doing anything with my room until I get the rest of the apartment clean. Then I can start organizing my room, as well as the rest of the apartment. So I’m going to focus on cleaning the bathroom next. That shouldn’t take that long- its a small area but its filthy. Then I will move on to downstairs and focus on the kitchen- its pretty clean, just needs to be mopped. Then the living area which is the worst of all. Needs to be swept, mopped, picked up, clean underneath furniture, there is clutter everywhere. But if I focus on one area at a time like that, I think I can do it.

I found an ehow video on how to fix a leaky faucet and FINALLY fixed the kitchen faucet so it doesn’t drip every 5 seconds. I consider that task part of ‘cleaning my apartment’. I’m pretty proud of myself now that I know how to fix a leaky faucet!

In 3.5 hours I achieved very little but don’t get me wrong: I was working the entire time!! I spent over an hour of that time picking up beads- one by one! The other day I was getting something out of the closet and a box of seed beads came tumbling out and spilt all over the carpet and into the sliding closet door crevice! So I got the tweezer out today and began picking the beads out one by one from the crevice. OMG like I said it took over an hour!! At least I had the tv on next to me. Well, that had to be done and now my room is a little cleaner. And I salvaged the beads (for the goal my list that says ‘make a beaded purse’!).

What else did I get done in 3.5 hours? Well I spent probably over an hour ripping up old checks. I had to switch banks recently so I had a whole box of old checks and I couple sheets of temporary checks so I got out the scissors and I cut checks a few at a time into slivers. It took forever!! And my hand hurts. I guess thats why people have shredders. But I don’t like to have a lot of junk like shredders. I’m a minimalist. But after this experience- if I ever have to do that again- I’m getting a shredder.

So after picking up beads with tweezers and cutting a hundred checks into slivers, I proceeded to pick up everything on my floor and put it in an appropriate place and then vaccuum my room. Looking under my bed I realized the carpet was coming up. I tore part of the carpet up to make sure the floor wasn’t wet. It wasn’t so thats a relief. Since I had to move my bed to do that, I was able to vaccuum under my bed and pretty much the entire room. It feels a lot better and I’d like to vacuum once a week. The thing I hate about vaccuuming is cleaning my bagless vaccuum filter. It gets really dirty. Anyway, I still have a long way to go getting my apartment clean but every step helps.

I don’t want to clean!! Its like almost 1’clock and I still haven’t started. I need to go take a shower and then just do it. I should reward myself with something if I clean the rest of the day. I can’t think of any rewards though. I guess just relaxing tonight. I’ll challenge myself to clean from 2:00 to 5:00 and then I can do whatever I want. Thats a good idea!!

Ug, I really don’t want to do this one. If I had a good cd collection it wouldn’t be as bad. But thats later in the list. I think I’ll put this off until next week. Or maybe sunday. I’m just so tired and I like to do it when I have the apartment to myself. But if I get through this one, I can start studying chemistry, the next thing on my list. Oh joy. No, I do want to. It’ll be really nice to live in a clean inhabitance. And its really not that dirty. Just needs a good mopping. I’ve been good about cleaning the dishes. Maybe I’ll clean Huey’s cage saturday. In fact maybe I’ll start cleaning saturday. But right now, I’m just beat and I have a long day tomorrow.