Trash Day

In a matter of hours the kitchen went from being one of the places I absolutely avoided to being one of the cleaner places in the whole house.

Our area's trash pick-up day is Tuesday and Ronnie and I had decided earlier that we were going to dump the trash from the kitchen on Monday night so it could be picked up. With help from Rafel we finally motivated ourselves to get up and take care of everything. I put on gloves and began taking some of the trash off the top of the can so we could get a trash bag around it. After some initial gagging I was able to get it together and soon the trash was gone from the kitchen.

Ronnie and Rafel then began to put all of the dishes that had been crowding the sink and stove into trash bags as well. Rather than deal with them right now we just decided to put them somewhere where the people who destroyed them can deal with them on their own time. As of now they are still sitting in the hallway. While they were doing the dishes I was trying to scrape off old nasty stuff from the walls. It was terrible.

I went downstairs to look for my Swiffer Sweeper but someone has lost it or done something with it so I had to go out to the store at 12:30 in order to get a new something. I ended up getting an amazing mop with scrubbing bristles on one side along with a big bottle of bleach. the mop worked wonderfully and our kitchen floor is now walkable again. Before you ALWAYS had to have shoes on. Now, I feel like socks might suffice.

After I mopped up the floor and everything I went around to the various sinks upstairs and just poured bleach down them, hoping that if anything was existing in there that the bleach would take care of it. I'm hoping it worked.

I think we can finally take control of the house again....take it back from the flies.