Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, “Respect me; I’m a respectable grown-up!” and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.
Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay in the middle of the floor. Of course, the pan slid away. Eric scowled.
I’d finally found something Eric did poorly
Instead of communicating “I love you, so let me make life easy for you,” I decided that my message needed to be something more along these lines: “I love you. I believe in you. I know what you’re capable of. So I’m going to make you work.
Excuse the mess, but we live here.
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like you’re a kid again, poking around in your parents’ closet, only this time there’s no chance of getting in trouble, so you don’t have to be so sure that everything gets put back exactly where it was before you did your poking around. Still, you hope to find something, or maybe you fear finding something, that will completely change your conception of the parent you thought you knew.
Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.
Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, “Respect me; I’m a respectable grown-up!” and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.
Her mind is a mess, and she has no intention of cleaning today.
The combination of ammonia and chloride can be lethal but I’ve discovered it can work miracles as long as you keep telling yourself, “I want to love, I want to live…
I have to go home and get a few things done. If I don’t get out the Pledge soon, the dust bunnies are going to be leaving tracks on my furniture
The house was clean, scrubbed and immaculate, curtains washed, windows polished, but all as a man does it – the ironed curtains did not hang quite straight and there were streaks on the windows and a square showed on the table when a book was moved.
In taking a bath one is admitting he is dirty. In humility, he strips off all dignity and return as-was-born for natural cleaning.
One man with a broom cannot clean the whole world but if the whole world starts knowing that that man has an idea of cleaning the whole world, then this idea can come true! One man is one man, but one idea is one thousand men or one million or one billion men!
