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How come I always feel the need to clean up the house before I can sit down and do anything constructive? I’ve just spent the last couple of hours doing general cleaning of the house: I got fed up of the fridge being so untidy and dirty so I cleaned that (this involved removing everything, checking sell-by dates, wiping everything, removing all of the racks, bars and glass and cleaning that before cleaning the inside of the fridge and spending an inordinate amount of time deciding on the most effective use of the three fridge racks in relation to the stuff that we put in it… in the end I think I’ve done a pretty good job, James and Kim will be glad to know there is pretty much a “dedicated” beer section, I’ve put my naan bread in the plastic drawer that veg would normally go in, and I’ve adjusted the height of the shelves so we can put stuff that has previously leaked upright), the sofa was looking pretty grubby (everybody puts their shoes on it, which annoys me because I always have to wipe the weird tree crap off it that comes from outside before I sit down) so I put the covers in the washing machine. Then I washed all of the pots, cleaned the kitchen (just a quick job, I’ve not mopped the floor or cleaned the hobs yet) and tidied up the living room and hoovered all around.

It’s not that I enjoy cleaning; I really don’t. I think it is mostly down to the fact that I just don’t like things to be untidy… what doesn’t help is that somewhere in the past (almost) 22 years I’ve picked up the mentality that if you’re going to do something, you may as well do it properly. This basically means that if I start something that other people might finish in ten minutes, I’ll take at least 20, if not more. It’s almost like a mini case of obsessive-compulsive disorder, or something.

Ah, well. At least everything is pretty tidy now. I can get on with my work :)

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