Nine Hours Later, I Proclaim My Mastery
Posted by Moose on December 20th, 2008. Filed under: Uncategorized.It’s now 2:22 in the morning, and I began my long-anticipated (read: long put off) Scrub the Sty project right after I got home from work at 5:30. Let’s review:
Before:
After:
What we’ve learned tonight:
1. It can take the equivalent of a full work day to clean an apartment the size of a tube sock.
2. I am stubborn.
3. Also FULL OF CHRISTMAS CHEER, DAMN IT.
4. Spending nine hours on a Friday night scrubbing floors makes me oddly smug.
5. Therefore:
6. I may be the dullest person currently in existence.
7. I’m definitely the dullest person still awake.
8. But my apartment smells like fresh pine.
9. And CHRISTMAS CHEER, DAMN IT.
10. I’m going to bed now.
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December 20th, 2008 at 3:45 am
11. I still can’t take a picture to save my life. My camera thwarts me at every turn. Which is sad, because crisp clear color would demonstrate the MAGNITUDE OF MY SUCCESS. In a way that blurry, poorly-lit shots do not.
December 20th, 2008 at 3:45 am
12: I’m really going to bed now.
December 20th, 2008 at 4:22 am
Don’t feel too bad, I am still awake and I didn’t clean a THING though my house could definitely use it. Good work! I hope you rest well, because you earned it.
December 20th, 2008 at 8:32 am
My apartment is never so clean as when I have a paper or test, or when finals are coming up. It positively sparkles. (Not to say that you’re procrastinating. That’s just how I roll.)
December 20th, 2008 at 8:33 am
Nice! And Christmas cheeer? Well, it’s rampant in this picture.
December 20th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Yay, you know what your apartment is now good for??? KNITTING! I’ll return promptly.
December 20th, 2008 at 10:08 am
WOW—- You’d make ANY mother proud!!!!
(Even in the before pictures, your floors looked clean….)
December 20th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Damn, I had an airline ticket in hand as I like to give a good pummeling! It’s only a matter of time, or your next cooking session, when your apartment reverts back to it’s natural cluttered state. Would a good pummeling offer be available then, too?
Isn’t odd how one would rather clean someone else’s place rather than their own? Maybe, it’s just me? Good job, though! Love the fresh pine scent in an old apartment building, too!
December 20th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Oh! It looks heavenly! Quick, come use your powers on my tissue swamp! Your floors are so shiny! Your tree is so wee and happy and sparkly!
December 20th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Ok, you have inspired me. I will be getting off my butt to attack the filth now.
December 20th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
I would eat food off of those floors. Especially if bacon was offered…
December 20th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
I want to run away and hide there.
Sigh.
December 20th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Cleaning…. Cleaning… I don’t know that I am familiar with this concept.
December 21st, 2008 at 3:56 pm
I’m doing this today. But thankfully my before? Not nearly as bad
December 22nd, 2008 at 9:56 am
Way to go! Would you come clean mine? Because it’s bordering on disgusting. I’m hoping to spend my weekend cleaning after Xmas. Because it is too cold to go out anyway.
December 22nd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Oh crap. That’s what I was supposed to do this weekend, except I failed. Maybe this will inspire a serious cleaning after work tonight. Maybe….
December 22nd, 2008 at 5:55 pm
You have “Mean Girls” and “Devil Wears Prada” DVD’s!!
Do you have “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” with Sarah Jessica Parker?
SLUMBER PARTY!
January 2nd, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Holy shitballs, Moosey! Your apartment/tube-sock must be made of that special garbage bag material that stretches and stretches. It’s an amazing feat to conceal 3-bedrooms worth of stuff into a 1-bedroom apartment and still have room for a Christmas tree. I am totally saluting you right now. Maybe if I can take a leaf out of your book, I wouldn’t have to sleep in my bathtub