clean my apartment

A couple weeks ago, my landlady contacted me because there was a leak in the downstairs apartment and she was going to have someone access the roof through my apartment. So I picked up the kitchen, dining room, bathroom and hallway which would all be visible on their journey into my attic to go out onto the roof. Turns out the repairs they’d done to my porch a few years ago didn’t last and the water is pooling on my porch and then leaking into the downstairs apartment. She was supposed to repair it last weekend, but called me on Thursday to say that she hadn’t been able to get anyone to come until today. When I left before noon they still weren’t here, but when I came home tonight my porch was completely torn apart. I’m glad they felt that it was okay for them to use my snow shovel and broom which I’d had to take off my porch to use to get the stuff off the porch. I wonder how long until they get the new “rubber” roof on. I’ve been told that I can’t put anything on my porch once they do the rubber roof because it could puncture it. What the hell?! I mean why have a porch if you can’t use it?

Anyway, so my landlady tells me she’s refinancing the building and will need to show my apartment this coming Thursday, though she’s thinking she’s going to move it up to Wednesday. So I’ve got to pick up my whole apartment instead of just the parts that I’d already tackled. So here’s my task list between now and Wednesday morning:

* Kitchen dishes and stovetop 9/20
* Dining Room declutter 9/21
* Hallway remaining boxes 9/23
* Full Bathroom declutter 9/21
* Living Room Videotapes 9/22
* Living Room declutter 9/23
* Bedroom Videotapes 9/21, 9/23
* Bedroom Floor 9/21
* Dressing Room Floor 9/19
* Half Bath Floor 9/20
* Half Bath Sink 9/20
* All rooms empty trashes 9/20, 9/24
* Put Away Laundry 9/19

The junk room is still a lost cause. Working two full-time jobs means I’m rarely here. My intention was to start working on organizing my stuff once my day job was gone prior to my move, but since I’m still working eight months later, it just hasn’t happened. I’m working a 24hr shift tomorrow as a Medic, so basically I’ll have a few hours Monday and a few hours Tuesday nights. I’ll get done what I can, but I know I’ll be moving out of here sometime in the next six months so I’m not really going to invest the time it needs to do a thorough job.

Update: Just got a call that the walk through will be Thursday 9/24 at 8:30am which gives me an extra day to work on this.

My landlady had told me a couple weeks ago that she might have another interested buyer for the building and would be showing the building sometime. Now I’ve talked to her four of five times in the last two weeks because of the leak in the roof that she’s got to fix and she never said a thing about it being tomorrow. When I got home tonight though there was a message on my answering machine telling me that she would be showing the building at 9am tomorrow morning. Thanks for the notice.

I did some cleaning earlier this week when I was off on Wednesday, but if I’d known it would be this weekend I would’ve done more cleaning and less catching up on my soaps. I’ve also got Monday and Tuesday off this coming week and had planned to work more on the apartment those days. Now I’m debating what all do I have to get done before tomorrow morning.

Fortunately I did a lot of work a few weeks ago in order to make the leak accessible. And I spent an hour already tonight and made some good progress, having cleaned both bathrooms and organized my walk-in closet. I also made a good chunk of progress on my dining room.

Here’s what I would like to get done by morning:

• Do my dishes
• Dust the living room
• Pick up and Rearrange the living room
• Finish the dining room table
• Pick up the kitchen
• Clean my bedroom
• Organize the pile in the junk room
• Pick up the dirty clothes
• Pack the video tapes in the bedroom
• Make the bed

Okay, so I’ve got a leak in my ceiling. I’ve done some investigating and think I’ve got it narrowed down to either the chimney or the seal along the widow’s window. I rent so it’s really my landlady’s responsibility. Being the bachelor I am though, I need to clean up the place (e.g. pick up the dirty clothes from the hallway floor, put away the porn, etc.) before I can show it to her.

I started today, and accomplished the following: Rearranged my toys in the attic, gathered up the recycleables, picked up the cards that fell when the shelf fell, repaired the shelf, moved all my Christmas present clothing from the junk room to the walk-in closet, cleaned the bathroom sink, cleaned the stove, did all the dishes, gathered trash, collapsed the pizza box stack and organized some of the Christmas presents. I would done more, but I sliced my finger open on one of the knives and had to hold direct pressure and elevate it for a good ten minutes before it would stop. It probably could use a stitch or two, but I’m going to try to go without. The latex glove I’m wearing seems to be working, though it has broken open a couple times (the wound not the glove).

• Pick up the magazines in the bathroom
• Pick up the dirty clothes
• Box up the video tapes from the living room
• Rearrange the junk room to make it more organized.
• Box up my comic books or at least move the boxes to the junk room.
• Rearrange the living room furniture
• Get rid of the recycleables
• Get rid of the garbage
• Get rid of the box collection in the attic
• Rearrange the attic
• Pick up in the dining room
• Pick up the hallway

If I can do this, then I can have the landlady come look and the workmen can come and go without me having to move things for them.

It’s the first time in weeks that I’ve actually been home for a whole evening. I took the opportunity to do some dishes that had been collecting. I also gathered up the trash. I cleaned the mirrors. I changed the baking soda in the refrigerator and freezer. I also collected the recycleables to drop off on Saturday. It may not seem like a lot, but it’s more than I’ve done in the last two weeks.

Well I did my dishes which had been collecting for over a week. I didn’t realize I had that many plates hanging around. I hadn’t run out of forks, so it wasn’t like I really needed to do the dishes like last time.

My landlady called me saying the electricians were going to be in last Thursday so I picked up and moved things away from the wall in the living room. She never told me when they would be done, so my living room is still odd with the futon in the middle of the room but I’m actually kind of digging it this way. The electricians are done now, so we’ll see if I leave it like this or not. It’s okay for now.

It’s my first night off in forever where I could just do whatever I wanted at home. I wound up working on the mildew on my shower curtains, and cleaning the bathroom sink and toilet. I also did all my dishes, even the ones that I tend not to do like the spaghetti pot and frying pan. I also gathered up the garbage. Earlier this week I had gathered up the recycleables to drop off this coming Saturday. It’s amazing how much you can accomplish in an hour.

I did my dishes this past weekend. I think I’ll do the recycleables this coming weekend. I’ve been swamped with doing clinical time the last two months so this has been lingering. I need to focus on it a bit more.

I was making some good progress today until I got called into work to fix a problem. Now I’ve got some things that I still need to do.

What’s remaining from my list of items:

• Floor
• Fridge (optional)

• Table (optional)

• Boxes (optional)

• Floor
• Magazines (optional)
• Boxes
• Toilet

• Bed
• Couch
• Boxes (optional)

Basically I need to spend another hour on the bathroom, and probably an hour on the bedroom and then the apartment will be presentable.

Here’s what I’ve accomplished so far today inbetween ambulance calls and going to work:

• Dishes (partially)
• Clean Stove

• Dust

• Recycleables

Damn. It seemed like I’d done so much more today already. I need to get back to work.

Okay so here’s my checklist of the things that I need to do this weekend to complete my cleaning of the apartment so my landlord can show the building next week:

• Dishes
• Clean stove
• Clean sink
• Floor
• Fridge (optional)

• Floor
• Ceiling (optional)
• Table (optional)

• Foyer
• Laundry
• Boxes (optional)

• Floor
• Magazines (optional)
• Boxes
• Sink
• Toilet

• Dust

• Pathway

• Floor
• Bed
• Couch
• Boxes (optional)

• Floor/Pathway

• Floor
• Sink
• Toilet

• Recycleables
• Pathway (optional)