Party Tonight! Cleaning Today.
Jan. 20th, 2024 03:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerTonight Hawk and I are hosting our long-awaited joint birthday party. We're celebrating a combined 102!
Hosting a house party requires having a presentable house, though. And we've put off way too many cleaning tasks the past many weeks. Last weekend, for example, I had aimed to do a bunch of cleaning. I did about 20 minutes worth. That's... better than nothing, but not by a lot.
This morning I tore into cleaning the foyer and stairs. I ran the vacuum over everything down there, then vacuumed the living room, then went back and wiped down the foyer floor and the wooden stairs. Oh, man, the foyer was dirty. Like, the paper towels I wiped with came up black after wiping just a few tiles each. But it was satisfying to know that I was cleaning all that crud. I partly scolded myself for not having done this weeks earlier... but, to be fair, this crud wasn't there weeks earlier, before the rainy season started.
Despite a late start on that cleaning task I finished it in good time. I showered, changed, and went out for lunch with Hawk. She'd already knocked out a few cleaning tasks, too. The house is starting to look good! Well, parts of it are looking good. 😅
After lunch we went shopping for party supplies. We got a few balloon arrangements, a bunch of loose balloons, and a few grocery odds and ends to fill out the pot-luck-for-those-who-want-to spread for tonight. We finished the shopping and were home by 2pm, which satisfied me that we were back on track. I had dreaded these errands taking until past 3, which would leave me feeling rushed to get everything else ready for the party.
More to come!
Hosting a house party requires having a presentable house, though. And we've put off way too many cleaning tasks the past many weeks. Last weekend, for example, I had aimed to do a bunch of cleaning. I did about 20 minutes worth. That's... better than nothing, but not by a lot.
This morning I tore into cleaning the foyer and stairs. I ran the vacuum over everything down there, then vacuumed the living room, then went back and wiped down the foyer floor and the wooden stairs. Oh, man, the foyer was dirty. Like, the paper towels I wiped with came up black after wiping just a few tiles each. But it was satisfying to know that I was cleaning all that crud. I partly scolded myself for not having done this weeks earlier... but, to be fair, this crud wasn't there weeks earlier, before the rainy season started.
Despite a late start on that cleaning task I finished it in good time. I showered, changed, and went out for lunch with Hawk. She'd already knocked out a few cleaning tasks, too. The house is starting to look good! Well, parts of it are looking good. 😅
After lunch we went shopping for party supplies. We got a few balloon arrangements, a bunch of loose balloons, and a few grocery odds and ends to fill out the pot-luck-for-those-who-want-to spread for tonight. We finished the shopping and were home by 2pm, which satisfied me that we were back on track. I had dreaded these errands taking until past 3, which would leave me feeling rushed to get everything else ready for the party.
More to come!
