As you may or may not have noticed, I have not posted to this project over the last two weeks. It’s nothing to worry about, in fact there is a great word for it: vacation!
I took two whole weeks off from work, and in *checks clock* 30 minutes I’ll be logging back in to check my no-doubt overflowing email to find out if I missed anything important (spoiler: probably not, but maybe!).
I have a longer post brewing about what I did do on my summer vacation, which was ALL THE CLEANING. Since I was not going anywhere, I sat at home my first day off and a thought struck: what if I just finally cleaned the house top to bottom like I always claim I’m going to do on the weekends???? So I did.
It took me the full two weeks.
To be fair to myself, I did not do it in hurricane mode! I used the Pomodoro method of short sprints followed by breaks, and there were a couple of days I simply took off to rest and relax. I also made time to spend on the porch when mornings were cool enough. Here is Keely wondering what we are doing and why:
In the end it was not just a cleaning but a deep clean of every single surface in my house and also a purging of things that I don’t use/need (old shoes! Old music CDs! Books I do not like and/or will never read!!!). Quite honestly it was exhausting, both physically and emotionally. For one thing I’d very, very out of shape. For another, it was a deep dive into the murky waters of my past lives, up to and including rediscovering my parent’s boxes of ashes (I earn my goth cred honestly!).
But now I’m back to “real life”, grateful that at least today is a WFH day so I can recuperate from two weeks of hard work! *cries while laughing*