Gracie’s Life Experiment

I decided to take the day off as holiday (I have quite a lot of days still to use up before end of March) and spent the day giving the house a mini spring clean.  The kitchen got a good sanitising, scrubbed the cupboard fronts (wow, it looked white until I cleaned it after which the unclean ones looked yellow in comparison), mopped the floor (until the mop self imploded and turned into a pile of rags sans pole), cleaned the hob (inc all the burners and racks), scrubbed the tiles and extractor hood.  Yuck – so greasy!  Armed with my duster, sponge, cleaning products, bin bags and some kitchen roll, I then got to work emptying all the bins and sorting out all the random piles of paperwork that seem to magically appear in each room.  Dusted all the surfaces and even did the doors.  Put various things back into their homes (scissors, etc).  Reconfigured the rowing maching (it was quite heavy and I probably shouldn’t have done it, but no strains caused).  Vacuumed the whole house top to bottom.  Felt good once I had finished.  It only took about 5 hrs.  Finished at about 3pm feeling a bit faint then realised I hadn’t had lunch yet and come to think of it I only had a chocolate digestive biscuit for breakfast!!  So cosmetically the house is looking lovely again.  Still need to do the windows and ledges, use the really caustic stuff on the oven (prob a job for hubby, or need to find a facemask from somewhere) and the skirting boards are looking a bit grubby.   By then I guess the rest of the house will have got into pigsty state again (it only seems to take 2 or 3 days in our household).

Summary of the day:  Lots of cleaning, Gave a piano lesson, Made tonkatsu, Sold our futon, Played Wiilympics, Went to bed