merely talk

I guess it's about time to get my squealing "phan" girl (get it, phan like phantom, I'm so witty I slay myself) off the top of the page.

I don't really have much to say. I'm coming down with some weird illness. It'll most likely turn out to be a cold, but weird illness just sounds so much better.

I was thinking at work today about cleanliness. And how when you come right down to it, I am very unclean. Well no, not unclean, just a slob I guess. Not about gross things like food. I hate food that's been left out. It sticks and it's gross, but about non-smelly things I'm pretty messy. Especially my bedroom. At the moment half my wardrobe is strewn across the floor. It's been this way for at least two weeks and I just can't be bothered to pick it up.

My "office" has a whole bunch of random work papers in haphazard piles. I really need to file them, and if I hadn't left them for so long, it would have been easy, but I have and now it's going to take awhile. So I've been avoiding them.

My living room is a mess of different yarns and knitting needles and patterns and blankets cause I'm always cold.

In the end I think the only acceptably clean room in the apartment is the second bedroom. And that's only because I don't use it.

What I find weird about all of this is how impeccably clean I am at work. When the kids and I are done with a toy we clean it up. Which is fine and part of my job. But the weird thing is when I arrive at some of my houses I sometimes have to do a bit of cleaning of the rooms I work in. So usually I leave the place I work in a much better condition than how I found it.

So why can I do this at work, but not my own house. Part of it may be that it is an other persons home. Another may be that since it is my workspace it needs to be uncluttered, so working in a messy room would be counter productive for the kids and lead to way to many distractions.

I guess I just find it weird how cleaning at these places is just second nature, while cleaning at my place is an absolute chore.

And yes I did just write a long post about cleaning. I'm not boring at all. Maybe I should stop reading so much. (to get that last line you should go read a few posts back at Amy's blog...which you should be reading anyway cause it's awesome.)