so far

Just to update ya'll on my cleaning frenzy...

• My car air filter (it has already paid for itself!!), luckily someone kept the original filter because what the O'Reilly claimed would only take an hour or two really takes a day. So the original is in for the rest of today. It was easier than I thought to clean! But the drying is the time-consuming part, and we'll see about this spray on oil stuff later.
• The vacuum. Since I had the air compressor out, I decided to clean that filter as well. It was gross, with dust vermin flying everywhere. But it is now as good as new! And why does that dust stink so bad?? You would think that my filth would smell like me, like chocolate and sunshine, but sadly no. The kids funk must dominate, although if asked they usually smell like sunshine and sweets as well!
• My kitchen. I still need to do the floor, especially since we lost the automatic dust buster. Who knew that Sarah Dog worked so hard to keep the floors crumb free?? However, everything else is clean, even the shred pile has been taken care of!!
• The bathrooms. The girl really helped with this chore. And we kept it green by using old baby spit rags instead of paper towels!! We even had to replace a never clean in one of the bathrooms, and so was a fun lesson in twisting off the top when its wet!!
• The laundry. The boy helped here, taking care of most of the towels, and even replacing the ones in the bathrooms!! All that's left here is the hang-ups. Ugggghhh, how we all hate that, but I'll get to it soon, and it doesn't seem like quite as much when it's separated into our bedrooms!
• The pile of last semester's school work. I have determined that I will not need to use last semester's notes at all, so I tossed them! I now have a pile of books that are waiting until this semester is over to sell online!! Anyone know how to do this???

I think that is all I've gotten to. I think all I really need to do is the hang-ups, a final pickup of the living room, then it will be on to the floors. I haven't been the floor person in the house, except bathrooms, but since he is here no more, I will have to get into the groove. I'm guessing the floors will be better, since the bathroom floors were always cleaner than the kitchen!! And the girl has a Cinderella complex and wants to hand scrub the kitchen sometime!?!? I don't know what that's all about, but I'll take the help while I can, cause I'm sure she'll turn into her princess soon enough!