Trying to get the house in some sort of order.
That is my kitchen table, otherwise known as the table of death.
It collects everything as you can see.
I clean it off, get it all organized, and within a month, the stuff just piles back up on it again.
There's Christmas wrapping paper, Publix shopping bags, clothes, jewelry, kids paperwork, mail, junk mail, an HDMI splitter, flashlights, black lights, tools, shoes, fingernail polish, boxes, lotion, medical papers, all kinds of stuff and crap.
I am working on cleaning that table off slowly.
I'm doing the laundry today, the dishes, I vacc'd all the rooms, and I'll be cleaning each and every room as best as I can between now and when I go in for surgery.
I also bought some Febreze for pet odors, because the cats litter boxes are always smelly, and Nova is a big fat disgusting cat who doesn't clean herself very well, and so when she lays on the couch, I can smell it when I sit or lay down on the couch.
I just bought it yesterday, I don't know how well it works yet, like if it really kills pet smells, but I sprayed it around on the places she lays after I vacc'd the rugs, and am hoping it will really work.
I just don't want the teens to have to worry about getting and keeping the house clean, and I don't want anyone to come into the house, my sister, a home health nurse aide, or friends who may stop by to see me after, to come in here and see the house a total freaking mess.
That table is the bane of my existence though.
I don't know why I continue to pile stuff up on it.
No other spot in this house looks like that, nowhere, every other room is clean and organized, but that damn table, I should just get rid of it and then it won't happen anymore.
Comments
My kitchen table does the same thing! Everyone has their own desk, their own space for their stuff, etc. But for some reason the kitchen table is a magnet for everything that "should" have a space of it's own and it drives me up a freaking WALL!
Posted by: Holly | August 24, 2008 2:54 PM
i used to have a table like that. i too thought getting rid of the table would get rid of the problem. it didnt. i just find new places to throw my shit
Posted by: brian | August 24, 2008 6:27 PM
Eh, we've all got a spot like your kitchen table. Just put a blanket over it when you go in for surgery.
Posted by: Chickie | August 24, 2008 7:05 PM
I have not only a table of death, but 2 kitchen drawers of death as well.
Posted by: Chris (Singer) | August 24, 2008 8:40 PM