anal retentiveness

came home at 1030 in the morning after a very tedious trip to heathrow.

had lunch (coz i was hungry and it was too late for breakfast anyway) and called shin. felt like a total loser for being at home all alone all the time and moving furniture and tidying up most of the time.

went into kitchen and looked at bin. the sight of which completely repelled me.

so decided to dismantle it and wash it. as kitchen sink far too miniscule for gigantic barbantia, dismantled whole thing and washed it in bath tub. sticky dark green and black pieces of gunk got washed down the hole. it wasn't a sight for the pretty. proceeded to scrub it with industrial strength abrasive cream cleaner. inside, outside, at the bottom, the lid...

while washing gigantic barbantia, turned around and looked at little barbantia which was in equally disgruntled state andproceeded to dismantle and wash it too.













sprayed both barbantias with dettol-germ-obliterator-spray-thing and left them to dry.

















back in bathroom, looked at the disgusting grey floormat and changed them to spanking new ikea ones (hand carried from singapore. yes london hasan ikea too, but they are far away). noticed that floor where little barbantia used to sit on was covered in yellow scale and had lots of dust and hair.

got down on hands and knees and scrubbed the ugly blue floor. as was doing so, noticed that pillar under sink had lots of streak marks and more yellow scale, so had to rid it of that too.

considered that if bathroom floor was this dirty and not much garbage being thrown as in kitchen, kitchen must be in worse state!

kitchen indeed in repulsive state. bits of onion skin, carrot shreds, smelly juices, squashed up baked beans...

got down on hands and knees and decided to scrub entire area. and since was already on hand and kness, figured might as well do all surrounding area, including under washing machine, cabinet doors, walls and radiator.













found little nooks and crannies were hard to stuff fingers in, so whipped out aeroplane toothbrush and brushed years of dirt and dust off.

after cleaning said area, stood up to wash hands at sink and noticed metal blinds were annoyingly dusty. therefore, had to clean that too.

and sink after.

retreated to room all sweaty and smelling of wild boar, and grumbled about unruly state of room. decided to prove to the world (most importantly myself) that i could resist the temptation of procrastination, and decided to move furniture around, unpack boxes, set up new clothes rail and fold lot of clothing on sofa.

furniture moved all over the room, and eventually returned to same position. but floor was vacuumed, and used entire roll of toilet tissue to mop it. boxes moved from one end of room to cunning space under bed. bed sheets changed and washed. clothes rail filled with technicolour spectrum of clothing!!


















am ever so please with myself.


xxx D