When you’re a kid or a teenager, you think of adulthood with longing and expectations. And in a lot of ways, it is great. Sometimes, though, it’s not so fantastic. Who knew adulthood was so expensive??
I’m feeling kind of broke right now. Yes, mostly that is because I have been a somewhat ridiculous person with the traveling lately, but there are always so many bills. Rent, utilities, I have to get my car inspected, the penguin babies are due for their yearly check up (yes, I’ve had them almost a year—who knew?!?!), etc etc. And I lead a relatively expense-free life, because I am very lucky. I’m going to have to become a millionaire before I have children, otherwise I will spend every minute of their young lives agonizing over the cost of very last diaper.
The other recent expense was that I had to buy a vacuum today. My $100 model with the one year warranty gave up the ghost last week, 15 months after it joined the family. Quitter. I was going to try to wait for payday on Friday but the fact is, two black cats and a long-haired brunette, a beige carpet, and no vacuum cleaner is an equation with no happy solution. So I sucked it up and got a new one.
This is going to sound odd, but normally I LOVE to vacuum. It is pretty much tied with doing laundry for my favorite chore. It’s so simple and there are such immediate results!! And being a borderline germaphobe, I love clean things. So after I stopped tearing up over the credit card total, I was very excited to go home and try out my new appliance. Of course there were some minor assembly issues (I wish sometimes I’d taped all my assembly issues, they’d made for good comedy), but I managed to work through those. Then came the cleaning. My neighbors must think I’m crazy—I vacuumed for about an hour. And that was just my living room and 1 of the hallways! Never have I felt more like a dirty slob than I did while emptying the filter for the second time about halfway through the living room. I think maybe the old vacuum stopped working a while before I noticed it stopped working. Whoops. The dust, people, you should have seen the dust!! Horrfiying.
The good news is, my carpet is back to the pretty color I almost forgot it was. Now I just have to do the same with my bedroom, clean the kitchen, and the bathroom, and then I’m all clean!! Woohooo.
Fortunately I am dogsitting this weekend, so I won’t have time to do any of that ☺
Polishing up the rest of the Guatemala blog, will post soon ☺
No comments:
Post a Comment