Saturday, June 7, 2008

How to clean a house while non weight bearing

It's not that easy let tell you. I deciced on the bad stuff today and the easier stuff tomorrow. Worst of all are the floors. There's something truly depressing about a dirty floor. Smudge, fluff, cobwebs you name it - you can't, or at least I can't really operate, think about other things, have any energy to spin around the house floor on my head a la Homer Simpson.

The vacum just seemed like too much effort to me. It feels like to much effort even when I'm 100% weight bearing (it's the left leg). My mechanical get around devices are two very worn crutches that get regular anti-bacterial cleanses and a manual wheelchair (ie. it's not a Stephen Hawking model).

And I discovered the other day I had a broom! How excited was I. The dude that rebuilt my pergola in one day (impressive) asked for a broom the other day and I was like, a broom? Do I have one? Yes I do! Wow!

So out came the broom and I sorta kinda trundled around the hard floors of my smallish abode part using the wheelchair wheels and part just using my good foot to push myself around. I did a real good job. Although I avoided some rooms that would have been just to hard to navigate. So that really left the main room/kitchen. Then used a towelie thing to smush it into the bin. First one down. Now there are some unsightly stains on the kitchen floor. It's funny how the kitchen ends up being the dirtiest in the house, we spend so much time there. All the yucky food stuffs on the floor. Eww. So out came the generic cleaning product and some more towelettes. This was harder as I decided to go back to the crutches for this - it's just too hard to bend down in the wheelchair. That kinda worked although there's still some smudges there.

Next the carpets. Avoiding the vacum once again I settled on the crutches and a plastic bag. I went around and like a council cleaner with one of those prods I went around picking up bits of fluff and god knows what else off the carpets into the bag. Bag into bin. Not bad. On the way I discovered a few unsightly stains so out came the next generic carpet cleaning product. And then I thought to myself that's probably enough for the day. My Pearl Jam t-shirt was starting to sweat and smell I thought. Besides, I need to go away now and finish up my short film. Very close now.

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