I am kind of a quirky house cleaner. I like to clean a couple different rooms at the same time. If I only do one room I end up getting bored. If I run from one room to another, doing a little bit here and a little bit there, eventually it all gets done and I keep myself amused.
My husband is a different kind of animal. He also cleans, but in his true-to-form linear fashion he concentrates on one room at a time. He likes to move directly from point A to point B. I prefer to zig zag my way through life. We both get to the same place eventually.
You made me laugh... you sound like Bill & me... I guess the important thing is that the end result is the same and we end up at the same place together ;-)
ReplyDeleteI think it is important to accept those kind of differences in a relationship. Sometimes you just have to look the other way and wince.
DeleteI like to think of your butter cookies and grandchildren and ignore the cleaning. Back in my housekeeping days I was an organized cleaner. My two daughters had assigned chores and we moved methodically through the house every Saturday morning, and generally finished by ten or eleven. When I set up housekeeping with my sister, her husband and our mother almost thirty years ago, I found I had moved into the midst of fatally afflicted hoarders. I set boundaries for their junk and hired a cleaner to take care of the "clean" areas.I was the queen of mean if people left pop cans, snack bowls, tea cups, dirty socks in common areas. After a short time it had to be retrieved from a trash can. When my granddaughters arrived I explained the cleaners could still come to the house, or they could participate in all the pay to play school activities, which cost the same as a clean house. They had no problem with going to camp and having art lessons, and have become as efficient as their grandmother. The two of them tackle the whole house in two hours each on Saturday morning. Once in a while we add a complete scrub down of every vertical surface, including windows.
ReplyDeleteWell, that must be a paragraph long. I'll publish and see how much was on my mind. Have a wonderful Christmas.
You, too.
DeleteYou are training your granddaughters well. I wish I was organized.
I used to be focused and put myself completely into the job at hand and stay with it till it was finished. Now, like you, I become bored, so a little here and a little there seems to fit me better and eventually everything gets done. Well, maybe not everything, but I have found that in the end, it never really mattered as much as I thought.
ReplyDeleteThat is so true.
DeleteHeck, I can't even finish one art project without having to work on 2 or 3 at the same time.
ReplyDeleteIt's kind of like that guy in traffic who has to has to pass you, zig back and forth between the lanes and tailgate everyone to get ahead....and then we wind up at the red light at the same time..ha.
Not that anyone that can stick to one thing at a time is like the tailgater, but you get what I mean.
I want to make butter cookies - and eat them - but my cholesterol is, umm, shall we say a bit high?! So I'm trying to be good, but it's realllly hard.
Sorry to hear about the cholesterol. Especially because of the Christmas butter cookie thing. I should be good, too; but I probably won't.
DeleteI'm a zigzag cleaner, too! And my house is a mess right now. It's driving me nuts. Baking cookies with the grandkids sounds wonderful...enjoy!
ReplyDeleteThanks, I will enjoy the cookie making - although it gets a little stressful with a 3 year old piling frosting twice the thickness of the cookie. Don't worry about your house, you have a few other things on your mind right now! Cheers.
DeleteI clean the same way. I'm usually doing laundry, tidying up and generally ping ponging around. Works for me.
ReplyDeleteGood to know I am not the only one.
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