Adventures in Cleaning

[onefixedstar]

For various reasons, mostly things like spending weekends at B's place, going out to dinner with various people, and spending television night at AmericanAnglo's place, I haven't been home a lot in the evenings. In fact, I've only cooked dinner at home once in the past two weeks.

Today I decided to clean out the fridge.

Usually I'm pretty good at keeping up with the fridge-cleaning-out, catching things just as they're about to go and tossing them before they get really disgusting. I discovered today that I'm much less good at it when I don't cook at home. It's much easier, when I'm not actually using the food, to ignore the fact that the tomatoes are slowly turning colours that even heritage tomatoes should never be, and that the sweet potato I forgot has turned into a science project and is well on its way to becoming a piece of modern art. When I'm not cooking, I can just reach in, grab a glass of water or the container of ice cream, and close the door.

(This might be a partial explanation of why MasseyPrincess never seems to get around to cleaning out the fridge, even when she acknowledges that it really, really needs it.)

I'm going to need a shower when I'm done in there. But first, I have to clean the bathroom.

Comments

[rinjava.livejournal.com]

Y'know, if you get in The Zone, I have a fridge and bathroom that could use some tlc...

So tempting, and yet...

[onefixedstar.livejournal.com]

I see a problem with this plan. If I were to come over and clean your apartment, you would, of course, feel obligated to feed me supper for my trouble. This would result in yet another night of me not cooking at home, which could potentially restart the whole cycle of not cleaning out the fridge, and an eventual replay of this afternoon.

I never want to relive this afternoon again.

I'm afraid it just wouldn't work. (Plus, as you can see from my posting on LJ before the bathroom has been cleaned, the whole Zone thing just isn't happening today.)