House Cleaning PT2
Tuesday, October 17th, 2023 11:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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50F with blue skies and fluffy clouds this Tuesday morning.
I got a good 7.5 hours of sound sleep last night. Up by 9:30. Outside by 10AM... watching cats watch birds, and the dog watch squirrels.
Max next door was too cheep to hire Mendez for his tree out front. Instead, yesterday and today he's got a friend with a long ladder, and a chainsaw on a pole, and they're just hacking the hell out of the poor maple.
It's day two of house cleaning today.
But should I start in the stairwell? The steps and banister are filthy. Will they come clean? They're painted in semi-gloss.
I'm still thinking of moving the twin bed into Dad's room.
And I have to hide that little amplifier I bought, because now that both Brian and Dylan will be here?... if they see that amp they're not gonna be able to resist playing the guitars.
Not a good scenario when Brian just moved out of his rehersal space, and Dylan just had a mental health episode. They'll both be triggered to spiral back into madness.
Colleen & Celina hit the road about three hours ago. They're on their way!
She also rented the chairs. 30 of them with two round tables and one rectangular to be dropped off at 11AM on Friday and picked up on Saturday morning.
I sent her 50 toward the cost of $108.00.
I got the stairwell all clean. Banister and steps white again. Cobwebs gone. Mirror on the 1st floor landing cleaned.
I got the living room... windows cleaned outside and in. Everything dusted and wiped down in there.
Then I got the hallway, which wasn't much.
After this break, it's Dad's room.
Kitchen & bathroom after that.
Laundry closet & back room after that.
Well, the studio took quite a damn while to get out of!
I hid the Peavy amp in a place nobody will ever find it. Then I put the two guitar cases down in the basement rafters where they'd been, and took a hunk of paneling down there too.
Put the old storm I'm gonna salvage the glass from, onto the porch.
Next, I had to measure to figure out if the bed could fit in there with the existing furniture... which it could.
Then I moved the bed in and moved the furniture around... put a bunch of stuff away in the drawers...
And then I threw out most of what remained of Dad's clothes hanging in the closet, along with some other stuff in there like shoes and a couple old travel bags in poor condition.
Yvette wanted a walk around 3:15, and it was a fairly long one.
When I got back I finally started wiping things down, cleaning window glass and mirrors, surfaces... the closet was horrendous.
Lastly, I removed the old strings from both the bass and the guitar and wiped them down.
Then I gave the whole floor a second vacuum, took out a bag of garbage, and now I'm washing rags again.
So, after a cig run and a food break, once again, as the sun sets, I'll start in on the kitchen and bathroom.
There will still be the back room, the upstairs floors to mop, and the porch... not to mention mowing the lawn and reeling up the hose.
How did it get so late?
So, I ate something, then made a smoke run.
Then Yvette wanted another walk.
Then I took all the garbage to the curb and put city stickers on the extra bags that wouldn't fit in the bins, and brought in some packages.
Then I got started in the downstairs bathroom... and I'm still in there!
It's been slow going becuase I had to get stickers off the mirror that Dad had put on there, and move the toilet paper holder to a very logical spot that nobody ever though of before.
I've cleaned the inside of the old medicine cabinet, and the inside of the shower, and the shower curtain was washed on delicate in the washer.
I'm in the process of getting the walls and celing... because they do need a wipe down, and then we'll finally worry about the actual sink, toilet, and floor.
It'll be 9PM or later by the time I start in the kitchen.
I wasn't out of the bathroom until 9:55.
But like the upstairs one last night, it's all the way done and it's immaculate.
And now I'm spent for the day.
I did get the clean bedding for the twin bed on there, in the studio... after which Prowly immediately adopted it.
What's left inside... Kitchen, porch, and back room... are all areas I've already deep cleaned & repainted in the very recent past.
Therefore it would SEEM... like they shouldn't eat up so much time!
The whole upstairs had been neglected the entire year, because of Dad's crisis, and then having to set up camp downstairs for Yvette's sake.
Most of the downstairs... though extensively decluttered through the crisis... still had a lot of the legacy dust and grime from the Dad years... when it was always difficult to do a proper deep clean down there... including the bathroom.
But, as I said, kitchen and back room really were deep cleaned and repainted earlier this year, and the porch was deep cleaned and repainted in 2021.
So I shouldn't be slowed down by extensive detailing tomorrow, like I have been so far [knocks wood].
But all this house cleaning, upstairs and down, has had me thinking a lot the past couple days.
I miss my upstairs flat so much, and cleaning it brought back so many memories of all the years I had up there.
But not only does Yvette seem to be here for another few years... but that upstairs needs to be flipped for somebody new... cuz I'm not gonna be able to get up and down those stairs forever!
And the years I have left that I can get up and down them... need to be spent flipping it!
So... I do need to be thinking about a permanent life downstairs.
And what that's shaping up to be now, is... the back room as my office, and Dad's room as my bedroom/recording studio... with access to the shop below it.
And now that the twin bed's been moved... I'm getting ideas about moving my nice computer and desk down here to the back room!
Like... this back room needs to be refloored and repainted. And so does Dad's room... along with being rewired for electricity.
But life is sucking me into these rooms anyway!.. right now!
I dunno...
It's early days... in terms of me owning this house.
It's late days... in terms of my life span.
There's so much I want to do to this place, but I've only got so many years left, and only so much money!
And God only knows if another family member or friend will come in to share the house with me, the way I did for Dad.
It's all a big mystery... but at the same time, I feel like what I've done, and am doing this year of 2023... is gonna have a lot to do with how that future plays out.
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