...they smell.
I love cleaning products, and cleaning, and for things to be clean. However, cleaning products come in too many scents and everyone has different preferences. This means that during cleaning check week you smell all sorts of "clean" smells. Lemon, Orange, Cool Citrus, Lavendar, Windex, Shower Power, Vinegar, etc. If everyone could just decide "alright, we're going to use orange scented products" I think I would like cleaning checks a lot more. The smell of all the products mixed together in an apartment or on a floor just makes me sad. It doesn't smell as clean. Then I look in our supply closet: Lavendar Clorox Wipes, Orange Pine Sol, Lemon Dish Soap, 409, Windex, Toilet Bowl Cleanser. Nothing smells alike. And then I remember why I thought of this post.
Our cleaning check is tonight and everyone is doing their cleaning. And it smells gross, because there are too many "clean" smells in one room. Maybe when I move into my condo next year I'll buy a ton of cleaning products all of the same scent, and then I'll volunteer to be the one to buy more when things run out so that it actually smells good. But hey, I shouldn't complain. My roommates actually bought the Pine Sol and the Clorox Wipes this time, without needing a reminder or a conversation about "we're running really low on (insert product here)". They just showed up in the utility closet one day. YAY!
Also. 33 days. Still lots to do, but there is some way fun stuff still happening. And mom, I know I keep saying that I'm going to send a box home for you to put in my closet, but this time I mean it. As I've been cleaning my room for cleaning check (not that there was really much cleaning to do) I've pulled stuff out that I don't need for the next 33 days but that I want to have at home and would take up some of my weight/space on the airplane. When everything on campus opens again (it's Tuesday around devotional time) I will be going to pick up a box at the Post Office and then coming back to pack it. I'll Facebook you when I have actually sent it (probably on Thursday when I have a 2 1/2 hour break between classes).
And Steph: I facebook messaged you, wrote on your wall, emailed you, and texted you. You said that I missed some forms of communication so here is my note to you on my blog (watch for a comment on yours). I want to get my haircut but want you to tell me which of the pictures I sent you you like better. So... pick your favorite form of communication and let me know :)
And finally. Happy Birthday to my friend Harrison. He doesn't read my blog, and he doesn't know about my blog, but Happy 21st Birthday anyway. This reminds me of another funny birthday story. It was Tyler (not he nephew)'s birthday last week. He's on his mission in Ecuador so I couldn't sing to him. Well, I figured singing to a picture of him was the next best option... so I grabbed a picture he sent from Ecuador and my roommates and I all sang to him. It sounded awful, but I'm sure Tyler would've LOVED it!
And on that note... I will go grab the vaccuum and edge my room and probably even vaccuum out my closet, window track, and drawers. Yay for cleaning!
1 comment:
Hmmm...this reminds me of my last day at the Tree House in Seattle before moving to Boston. I cleaned the bathroom with that Bleach-based anti-mold-and-mildew stuff (this particular brand smelled like lemon...I remember it well). Long story short: I inhaled so much of it in the process that I almosted ended up in the emergency room.
Consequently, I recommend...envirnomentally safe cleaning products. No, not because I'm a tree hugger (I sort of am though) but because inhaling too much cleaning product is simply unhealthy. Many of the environmentally sound products have no smell at all (which is great...they clean and leave no bi-oder). Nice!
Good luck finishing off your last month as a Sophmore!
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