cleanliness is next to...
Well, it's not often that I spend a weekend in my flat. In fact, in the two years I've been living here, it's probably only about twice, and that's because people have come to stay with me. So This weekend, apart from going to work yesterday morning, I've basically been in and around the flat, doing chores - most of them long overdue.
Went out for a breakfast date with friends this morning, and after a full english was ready to take on the world.
Broke the vacuum cleaner - And, on a side note, given that I only touch a vacuum about four or five times per year, I find it unfair that I've now broken two in a row in our flat. However, I noticed a while ago that although we have a new Hoover HEPA filter super-silent vacuum cleaner now, the old one was still around. So I asked what was up with it, and apparently it 'didn't suck'. Now, our new Hoover one has NEVER sucked, for 'silent' read 'wail like a thousand tortured banshees' and the HEPA filter works so well because it doesn't suck up any dust in the first place, so there's nothing to filter... and then I just blew it up, so I decided to take a look at the old one, cleaned it, changed its bag and gave it a bit of luvvin' (washed its filters, then used a hair dryer to give them a blow dry etc) and now it sucks like a prostitute on overtime pay. So everyone's happy. I also found all its old nozzley ends.
So my room is now cleaner than it's been in a long time. I've not tackled the bookcase, and that still needs to be emptied, cleaned and re-arranged. I even moved my mattress for the FIRST TIME EVER. And as it went down on the new carpet, the square of carpet under it is fuzzy-wuzzy new and still the right colour, whereas all the other carpet it flat and sorta...not the same colour anymore. Not because I'm a minger - well, not just because of that...but mainly because of all the builders who tramped through the place during the renovations plus it's a cheap carpet that now has no pile left.
I also bought a new plant. Don't remember what the guy said it was, but it's got cool flowers and he didn't reckon I could kill it through neglect, so it was perfect.
I feel the urge to take some pics of my abode, actually...weehee! PicSpam!
And five minutes later..I'm back! With pics!
As you walk into my bedroom from the hallway:
Then stand in the other corner of the same wall you can see into the sunlounge:
Moving into the sunlounge and looking back into my room at my bookshelves etc:
Standing in front of my window looking out onto my balcony:
And finally, my new plant, who is also looking out at the balcony:
It's never that tidy, man...treasure those images XD
Went out for a breakfast date with friends this morning, and after a full english was ready to take on the world.
Broke the vacuum cleaner - And, on a side note, given that I only touch a vacuum about four or five times per year, I find it unfair that I've now broken two in a row in our flat. However, I noticed a while ago that although we have a new Hoover HEPA filter super-silent vacuum cleaner now, the old one was still around. So I asked what was up with it, and apparently it 'didn't suck'. Now, our new Hoover one has NEVER sucked, for 'silent' read 'wail like a thousand tortured banshees' and the HEPA filter works so well because it doesn't suck up any dust in the first place, so there's nothing to filter... and then I just blew it up, so I decided to take a look at the old one, cleaned it, changed its bag and gave it a bit of luvvin' (washed its filters, then used a hair dryer to give them a blow dry etc) and now it sucks like a prostitute on overtime pay. So everyone's happy. I also found all its old nozzley ends.
So my room is now cleaner than it's been in a long time. I've not tackled the bookcase, and that still needs to be emptied, cleaned and re-arranged. I even moved my mattress for the FIRST TIME EVER. And as it went down on the new carpet, the square of carpet under it is fuzzy-wuzzy new and still the right colour, whereas all the other carpet it flat and sorta...not the same colour anymore. Not because I'm a minger - well, not just because of that...but mainly because of all the builders who tramped through the place during the renovations plus it's a cheap carpet that now has no pile left.
I also bought a new plant. Don't remember what the guy said it was, but it's got cool flowers and he didn't reckon I could kill it through neglect, so it was perfect.
I feel the urge to take some pics of my abode, actually...weehee! PicSpam!
And five minutes later..I'm back! With pics!
As you walk into my bedroom from the hallway:
Then stand in the other corner of the same wall you can see into the sunlounge:
Moving into the sunlounge and looking back into my room at my bookshelves etc:
Standing in front of my window looking out onto my balcony:
And finally, my new plant, who is also looking out at the balcony:
It's never that tidy, man...treasure those images XD