#not the beatles

[pennielane]

different but same

[i-am-the-oyster]

How I learned to stop worrying and love cleaning

Watch youtube cleaning channels (eg The Carla Project, A Beautiful Mess, Midwest Magic Cleaning). I learned so much from watching these: cleaning techniques, but also just watching things go from dirty to clean made certain jobs feel surmountable.

Get yourself a set of products and tools. The grease around your extractor fan is a different chemical than the white deposit on your toilet rim, and a brush can reach corners a cloth can't touch. I can go into specifics in a separate post if anyone wants, or you can just follow point 1 and learn the way I did.

Don't try to blitz a room unless you're working with a team. Blitzing is the crash-diet of cleaning. You exhaust yourself, the effects don't last very long, and your lasting memory from the experience is bad enough to put you off doing anything about it. Chip away at your housework, and allow your mind to fixate on the thing that's annoying you most today and deal with that.

Set a realistic goal and stick to it. Assess your energy and time, and set yourself a goal that's doable. If you don't have the time or energy to do wash the floor and put the furniture back in, don't take it out. Ignore the voice that says "while you're here, just ..." because you might run out of energy or time, and a job half done leaves you frustrated and can be worse than not starting. If you finish the job you start and have something left, you can start another and get the satisfaction twice!

I grew up in a house that was not hoarded, but was very messy. (I often say it was the kind of house where you might say "what is that smell" for a couple of weeks before you find the source). My mother was always vocal about her hatred of housework so I never learned the skills of cleaning.

I'm also neurodivergent, and very prone to relying on the SHARP method of organisation (Stacks, Heaps, and Random Piles). Mac from Midwest Magic Cleaning in particular has helped me understand some of the psychology of my difficulties. And watching all these youtubers take homes from absolutely filthy to sparkling clean has made the idea of getting my house clean seem so much more realistic.

[dearwhack]

Happy Christmas to my favorite weirdoes! 😂

[eveepe]

thank you lovely @tenderlady for tagging me to share a few little titbits

last song: the last song I added to my favourites was King of the Mountain by Kate Bush

last book: I just finished All Quiet on the Western Front because I love to suffer

last movie: rewatched The Blues Brothers for the nth time (and at the cinema it was Heretic which was both fun and stupid - my favourite things)

last tv show: last night's episode of bake off

sweet/spicy/savory: savoury - i'm always craving those delicious expensive perello gordal olives with the chilli in them

relationship status: we're only not married because neither of us wants a fuss

last thing i googled: 'aviemore weather warnings' because I'm supposed to be driving north on Friday but it's snowing and despite being in a country where it snows regularly we are poorly prepared

current obsession: you'll never guess!!! ok i'll tell you it's the beatles (shh)

looking forward to: will the end of this godforsaken semester never come??????

tagging @aquarianshift @scurator @monkberryfields @fkajohnlennon

[tavolgisvist]

With respect to the songs which come from dreams

[toovirgins]

election day! should i gouge my eyes out with a fork and drive a stake through my heart

[worksdotpm]

[lennon-gal]

i would like to share this because last night i looked up "baby pandas" at around 4am and started sobbing. i was BAWLING my eyes out. because of this one panda.

there were a bunch of baby pandas on a platform and this one fell on his face, but couldn't get up because he's a BABY, and his legs were just FLAILING

[exhausted-think-bucket]

Oh dear

here's a random word generator--whatever word it gives you is now the thing you are the deity of

[pennielane]

[i-am-the-oyster]

I know I'm late to this party, but Challengers is a great movie.

[eveepe]

@notgrungybitchin tagged me to post 10 pics that describe me without downloading anything new and that sounded fun so here they are! ❤️ I don't really download that many memes so most of these are pics I have taken

@fkajohnlennon @crumblingcookies @scurator pics pls

[paintdoktahwho]

google it

[ringo-starr-daily]

All of the Beatles dying in a glue trap

[beatlepaul4ever]

This is where they’d be working if they hadn’t made it to the toppermost of the poppermost.

Screwing and tugging - yeah sound very like our boys.