Cleaning

Haha! I consider getting one of these every so often. We have a robot mower though so I worry they might elope.

My roomba also always goes directly and consistently for the one thing it’ll get stuck on: one of those ikea poang chairs that stands on two slats. Drives me nuts. I have to put the chair on my couch just to have a moments’ peace when I run it. It does pick up an incredible amount of fluff and dander with each cycle though! (Three adults, two dogs, two carpets)

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i now do such a bad job at following through and finishing cleaning tasks that i am afraid to even start because i will be disappointed in myself in the end

― contorted filbert (harbl), Saturday, June 6, 2020 2:24 PM (two months ago)

my job fedexed me two monitors so i don't have to use a small laptop screen all day. just in time to start a new project that involves 10,000 pages of reading! but i believed i did not have space in my tiny house (and i have acquired the bad habit of working on my bed) so i almost asked not to get them. i have a second bedroom i don't use so it was a dusty storage room even though i intended to someday make it an actual second bedroom. i have lived in this house for 7 years now lol. i get so overwhelmed by projects like this that i never even try to do them. my bf told me to set the monitors up in the second room and i almost cried. today i collected two bags of garbage, consolidated the stuff i wanted to keep into two storage totes, moved some other stuff downstairs so i can get rid of it, vacuumed the whole room, cleared off the desk and put the monitors on it. AND i ordered a chair. i actually had to write out a plan for this like i was at work. i made it due in 60 days (i have to paint and get some furniture and a plant, etc.). i'm going to put it on a calendar like a grown-up. why don't i always do that? STUPID BRAIN!

Awesome!! I actually did a similar thing when I "de-cluttered" my apartment a couple years ago, including drawing diagrams of where things currently were and where they will be moved to, and the stages of the process -- thing A moves from room 1 to room 2, then thing B can move from LR to room 1 ... I don't think your brain is stupid, just weird but interesting!

Home spaces are weird these days. I work in the room that ... I drink and listen to music and write postcards to friends ... and the room feels slightly wrecked. I struggle to keep on top of tidying and I could sometimes weep at the clutter and the wooden floor is getting destroyed by my work chair ... but that sounds like an achievement, habrl.

home is definitely more claustrophobic than usual. and now i know i can't blame my mess on "i'm never home" like i used to. but yeah i'm going to get a rug to put under the chair. the floors aren't the best to begin with but i don't want to make a mess of them. now i'm thinking of buying a rowing machine instead of a second bed. the room is too small for both, i think.

yeah i have succumbed to “longer time at home seeing cluttered space & doing something instead of ignoring”

cleaned up our back room a couple of months ago & it went from a hoarder’s cry for help/spider paradise to open space with a cleared table that I now have ~houseplants~ on

but it took a while, by choice! i kept seeing it as a whole thing to deal with all at once & that made me no want to do it. so i’d pick a thing, figure out its designation (keep, trash, donate, nfi) & just do a little bit each day, for a little while..no time limit... if i felt like doing more I did more but if it started to piss me off i’d stop & do something else. it is nice to go back there now & not feel like a failure