So far, I have washed down the counters, cleaned the bathtub/loo, polished the furniture, swept the floors, mopped them, and then vacuumed the carpet. The only thing I have left to do is vacuuming the stairs (that gets done with a handheld vac because I'm not going to haul my twenty-pound Hoover down the stairs) and the laundry, and that will get left till tomorrow because I'm going to town for stuff I need today.
While exhausting, the satisfaction of knowing I have just given myself the weekend off of housework (cept dishes, but those always get done around here) is worth the tiredness I'm going to feel later.
If I do have company this week, the place is clean. If I don't have company this week, it's still clean and I don't have to spend my time off trying to get it that way anymore.
Sigh.
Meanwhile, not much else going on. Except this cool little thing.
It's basically a crystal tree that comes in a kit. You have the plastic base, the cardboard tree, and the liquid crystal material. You get the tree set up in the base how you want to, pour the crystal stuff into the bottom, and the cardboard soaks up the liquid and it forms the crystals on the cardboard.
It is extremely fragile once the crystals have formed, so it's going to stay on my bedroom windowsill until the day I move out. You can get one for yourself (Tedco Snow Bonsai: the Imagination Tree-costs between 4 and 7 dollars for one kit. There's the company that makes them, a bunch of hobby shops, Ebay, and Amazon that sell these guys, so they're easy to get ahold of.)
I certainly didn't expect the little suishou to be pink, that's for sure. No matter. It's cute. I'm going to have to buy a dozen of these things for Christmas this year so that everyone I know can have one on their windowsills.
Ta,
Bec
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