Spring Cleaning
It's the first 65 degree day of the year in the TC. Wait, maybe it's not. But I think it is the first 65 degree day in which the day before and the day after are also warm. We've got all the windows open.
We're having people over next weekend for my b-day, so the to do list is basically Make the House Presentable.
We've lived in this house for 10 months. There's a ceiling fan in the front entry way that's waaaaay high up. I think before the previous owners left, that was the one last thing to clean and they just said fuck it.
So we just now cleaned it. We ignored the dust and ran the fan last summer. Over the winter we pondered how best to clean it, choosing not to go out and by a Really Tall Ladder. We borrowed one of those telescoping poles that you screw roller paint brushes into and duct taped a Swiffer duster to it. I held the blades still with the handle of a Swiffer broom. Missy took the telescoping pole and did the dusting. It doesn't look furry anymore. Close enough.
Yeah, we like the Swiffer products around here.
So we figured we should run the fan to blow off whatever loose dust may still be sitting on it. Replaced the battery in the remote control and... nothing. There are two light/ceiling fan combos in our house: one in the kitchen and this one in the entryway. They each have their own (labeled) remote. Despite the fact that the remote for the entryway light/fan worked just fine last summer, apparently now both remotes will only operate the light/fan in the kitchen. Who the hell knows.
Anyway, we have windows open and breezes blowing through and the fan in the kitchen is running and Missy is vacuuming and I'm continuing to unpack the very last of my boxes. The very last of my boxes! By the end of today, everything I have will be put somewhere. I hope. And probably a lot of it will just sit where it is, on a shelf, under the stairs, whatnot. But it's not packed and that's all that matters. I thought so at the time, but I've confirmed that I did a pretty good job of getting rid of stuff when I moved in here.
We were noticing that there are very few things in the house are ours. Things that we've purchased together. Which is fine because it's only been 10 months and we didn't really need anything and we're not folks who buy a lot of stuff anyway. And I don't have a lot of knick knacks. Not knick knacks that were purchased for the purpose of being knick knacks. I have mementos that I've acquired. Can't quite bring myself to proudly display them on Missy's very nice shelf thing in the living room. I have things I'd like to put on the walls that I just haven't gotten around to getting frames for. But it's cool. I'm comfy the way we are for now. We might paint and do some tiling this summer. Projects!
Smells like fresh air in here.
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By way of update, as of 8:45 pm...
...all of my liquor has found its way to its own cabinet.
...four boxes have been sent to the garage for recycling.
...two squares in my 16-square bookshelf have been filled with office supplies, blank xmas cards, my two old iBooks that I haven't bothered to get rid of, and the printer I bought brand new and never used because I didn't buy a printer cable and which I now don't need because Missy already had a nicer one.
...I've stashed two small plastic baggies of things in the appropriate boxes under the stairs.
...I've half learned one choir song that I didn't really know (*shame*) on my playlist of three to practice. I only just did that in the last 20 minutes.
...there's a pile of various extension cords and a 30-ft co-ax cable on the floor.
...there's a pile of trash on the floor.
...I'm left with the box of stuff that I didn't know what to do with in the first place which was all sitting on a table in my apartment and which I just threw in a box when I moved.
Damn, Erica. This is a nice post. I really like the fresh air line at the end.
Thanks, Peter.
Got a hot tip on the ceiling fan. Seems there may be a switch on the fan itself that we may have inadvertently flipped. Unfortunately, finding it again and flipping it back may require us to get the ladder. I'm sure we could never find it and flip it with the pole if that's what we were trying to do.