It’s spring. Everything’s blooming, although we’re having a rather rainy couple of weeks in sunny Los Angeles. In the midst of the rain and trying to get my apartment finished and the bookkeeping I have to do before Friday, I spent about an hour yesterday selecting plants and a couple of new pots at Home [...]
Category Archives: Domestic Goddess
not a people person
i’m not, really. i spent the whole day by myself, cleaning, doing laundry, watching NCAA basketball, playing the sims2, listening to pandora, and looking at real estate listings. and nobody bothered me all day. it was so nice. but now that it’s 1:45 am, i’m getting lonely. i don’t like to sleep by myself. waiting [...]
i can now see the top of my desk
and it’s not that exciting. dusting makes me sneezy and sniffly and is so not worth the effort. you try living in a major urban area with windows that do not close properly and front and back doors that have a 1/2 inch gap all the way around the frame and see how dust free [...]
i just love being sick
headcolds are the best! can’t breathe, face hurts, ears are plugged. what a life! haven’t been to school in two days and feel totally guilty. have a concert on saturday night and i sound as if my nose has turned into a bugle. weird visual. my parents are coming down for the concert so i [...]
it’s like a ray of sunshine
sometimes the laundry gods smile down upon those who dedicate a good portion of their lives to separating lights and darks, fuzzy towels from synthetic blends, and using the extra fast setting on the spin cycle sparingly, lest it upset the delicate balance of the costco bag of 96 rolls of toilet paper and one [...]
another productive day
started out with making a flyer for my dad’s new listing. of course, his template is in ms publisher, so i had to upload it onto my laptop, edit the pictures he took this morning and drop them into the little boxes. then we had to make up descriptions for the house. i never knew [...]
checking them off my list
of things to do. today the neighbors next door (the ones closest to our bedroom window, natch) had a garage sale. they started putting stuff out before 8am and i awoke to the sounds of haggling and things being dragged out of the garage. 8am on a saturday morning is not my idea of a [...]
dirty
well, it was. today i mopped the floor in the den. actually, mopping is not the correct term when one gets on one’s hands and knees and scrubs the floor with a rag soaked in murphy’s oil soap. so that’s what i did today, whatever you’d like to call it. gross. and now i have [...]
simple math
allie + 4 foot ladder = ability to change light bulbs in den, bedroom, office, and ability to clean ceiling fan in kitchen. does not add up to ability to sweep the dust off the floor in the kitchen, though. and, although it adds up to all those abilities, i’ve not yet accomplished some of [...]
will someone please
come over to my house and clean it for me? my parents and my aunt are coming this weekend and i’ve no desire to make any of it look less, um, disaster-ous. so here i sit, reading the internets and giving a cold shoulder to the pile of mail to be sorted and filed on [...]