sponge bathing my car

Quite honestly, it didn't work as well as I thought it would. I had grand visions of using my 3 gallon bucket of soapy water to clean the inside vinyl and then washing the outside of the car until it was a lovely, gleaming grey(yes, I recently was informed that my car is grey, not black. My recent parking ticket, the DMV and Matthew have all three insisted on this point; it was a surprise to me). Really, the dish soap that I used didn't cut through the brown grit like I expected it to and I suppose the kitchen sponge I used wasn't truly adequate for the job. Oh well, it looks slightly better than it did with it's streaky brown patches of dirt covering the hood, trunk lid and top of the car, and besides, using only 3 gallons of water for the entire car bath is far more environmentally friendly than using a car wash. Although I think giving my car a sponge bath is pretty high up on the crazy scale, I still don't think it competes with taking a rag mop to the car like a former acquaintance of mine once did.

I also discovered that my roomba is not designed for vacuuming the floors of a car. He did absolutely nothing to suck up the dirt but did successfully managed to fling the dirt and other collected filth in a little circle, away from his little body. He's cute.

mold is cute

Here's a picture of the mold that I found behind the bottle of Hello Kitty bubble bath, as imagined by Matthew, who is at work, but has vast amounts of experience in cleaning out moldy showers. Such an accurate depiction =)

The Housewife in me...

Since I didn't take my theraflu today I've gotta find something else to motivate me to do the dishes and I think Caldrea dish washing liquid will do the trick. Seriously folks, this stuff smells delicious and it works really well. It's also exorbitantly expensive so I probably won't be buying any when my samples run out. My dear, sweet employers brought back a handful of these little samples from Market(the place where buyers for retail shops go to shop) and I am now absolutely in love with Caldrea's product. I do have to wonder if paying 8 bucks for a 16oz bottle of dish soap ever evens out. But then, when you consider how much less you have to use of the product and when you consider how yummy it smells, therefore how much happier it makes you feel while you're doing a pile of dishes, it might not be such a rip off. Hmmm....I'll have to reconsider this question when I actually have money in my bank account instead of a big fat zero in my account and a pile of new clothes from victoria's secret in my closet =) Then I'll see if the $8 dish soap and the shipping cost on the dish soap will be justifiable for such a luxury.

My drug of choice is...

Theraflu, specifically the Daytime Severe Cold version of the medicine. This stuff is crazy. I have no idea what they put in it to make me so hyper and full of energy but it works very well. I mean it makes me want to just do chores all day long. The only thing that kept me from cleaning everything in sight was the knowledge that I was in fact sick, despite how I felt, and that my incredibly runny nose would just spread germs as quickly as I cleaned.

That's my only complaint, it decongests and therefore does not stop a runny nose. As soon as it wears off, I remember why I took it in the first place, but until then having a head cold does little to stop me from doing more, with more energy, than I ever do when I'm perfectly well. I think I already feel an addiction forming, so hopefully I'll be fully well by tomorrow(and I won't have an excuse to use it). I'm having trouble resisting the tempting thought that this could be rather useful, for those days off when I just don't feel like doing chores.

The problem with whatever energizing ingredient they put in this version of theraflu(it isn't listed, at least not that I can tell) is that it makes me want to stop resting and do something, anything to keep from being idle. The benefit is that it helps me focus. Yesterday, after finishing up making a delicious pot of soup, doing the dishes, taking out the trash and fighting off the urge to clean the entire top of the fridge(believe me it is nasty) I was able to read for a couple of hours with such focus that I finished way more than I expected to. It doesn't make me feel the way caffeine does. I know this because all caffeine does is help me not focus and frazzle my little nerves.

What is in the theraflu? Can I get huge amounts of it? How much does it cost? Is it highly dangerous and addictive? I think this could be useful if I ever get to grad school.

Perhaps I'll just have to start saving up all my nasty chores for when I'm sick and have an excuse to take this delightful drug =)