Argh! So today we got our carpets clean. I really love the idea of cleaning the house to have a party, only to have it get dirty. 🙂 Also, the cleaning of the house before the cleaners come. That always cracked me up. Ok, I get it that they just dust AROUND your stuff so if you clean they can get all the corners… but still. It is funny, yes?? It’s been so long since we’ve had a party here. Wow. The last time was our Halloween/Housewarming party that actually happened the day AFTER we moved in, due to our closing being pushed back two weeks. Boy that was fun. 🙂 We moved in Friday and had the housewarming party for family during the day and the Halloween party at night. Everyone thought we were nuts! We probably were.
Anyway. ARGH! We get the carpets cleaned about once a year. We also get the couches cleaned. This year we got both sets of couches clean. Meaning we cleaned the leather couches that the dogs sit on all day. 🙂 They were sooo dirty I would be so embarrased to have anyone sit on them. So now they are clean and I kept the dogs off of them all day by screaming at them but now they are sitting on them again. Oh well. At least 4 years of dirt have been cleaned off of them.
So, our cat Callie has this irritating habit of peeing on things. God knows why she does what she does, when she does it… but when I first got her, oh 7 years ago, she would pee on my comforter. If my fluffy comforter had the fabric on it, she would pee on it. So I always had to sleep with a sheet only because she had to stay in my room due to roommate allergies. Then, she would pee on my clothes if they were in a pile on the ground. Which, of course, I always left them in a pile. She stopped doing it cause I took away all the oppourtunties for her to do it… but she would pee on the oddest things. Our bean bag chairs, she peed on.
I’m sure you can see where we are going with this, right? She likes our nice pretty seude couches. She doesn’t pee on them all the time! Just once in awhile. So of course, they were cleaned today. And we normally keep blankets over the couches to prevent the cat hair sinking into the couch so I washed ALL the blankets, which was four loads of laundry today. Justin goes over and puts the blanket on the couch, gets a snack from the kitchen, and 10 min later walks into the room to find a big pee spot on the blanket of the couch. I guess she was marking her spot. She’s peed on these stupid couches a few times in the last few years. It’s SO ANNOYING. Perfectly clean couches. Perfectly clean blanket. And I had to throw the damn thing in the washer again. Luckily we caught it quickly and it didn’t really sink into the couch. Argh.
I must say though, our carpets look nice! I’ve forgotten what they look like when they are not covered with toys…
And the house is slowly getting cleaner. Really, I just seem to move things around from one area to the next but at least I am throwing away some things in the process. The kitchen is clean, the family room buffet thingy where I keep all my junk is clean. The living room is clean. The mantle is NOT clean and neither is my office. I guess I will work on those tomorrow since I’m doing nothing now. 🙂
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