Straight Up SLOBS!

If you drove by or walked into our house today, you would have thought we were straight up slobs! Driving by you will see that our grass hadn't been mowed in at least 6 months, edges hadn't been trimmed, weeds were the same height as I am, and we have a pile of dirt/sand about 4 feet high in the front yard. If you can get past the initial extremely sad exterior appearance, you enter into a house that the floors and the counters are sticky, their is dirt being ground into the carpet, a nice aroma of cigarette smoke, and the baseboards are no longer white (they are nice grayish color because of the dust). It is embarrassing, Swallow and I had finally had enough. We are usually the only person that cleans anyways. I think we were trying to out wait the others, but apparently, they won!

Swallow and I went to picked up the lawn mower (I am now a proud owner of a lawn mower), an edger, and some garden gloves. As we went to go pick up the lawn mower, Suds did pick about four maybe five weeds in the back yard (such the helper she is). As Swallow and I picked weeds, mowed the lawn, and put the excess grass clippings into bags, we are watched as Suds sits on the porch and gets lung cancer. Do we look like Cinderella? I think that should at least be my new name if not as well as Swallow's. Swallow, mowed the front and I did the back. She raked leaves and pine needles as I raked up the grass clippings. We were a team, and its a good thing we had each other to keep each other sane! I was unsuccessful when trying put together our broken edger (it has to go back).

Once we were finished on the outside and we came inside to start cleaning the interior. I threw the food that was left in the broken freezer on to the floor. I had asked Suds to clean out the rest of food that was hers away two days ago, but my guess is that she hadn't gotten around to it. Thats okay, just leave it for Swallow and I to clean out. Apparently, we are the cleaning crew. I don't care if you don't like to clean, you still have to do it. As I was cleaning out the fridge and throwing the rotten food on the floor, that I was on a rampage. Sitting on the floor looking up at her, I just smiled and asked "am I out of line or are my expectations to hire that we have grown adults that live like pigs?" She responded with, well yes we are currently living like pigs. We cleaned out each individual shelf in the freezer and took everything out of the fridge and cleaned that as well. The entire refrigerator looks as if it is brand new. The walls, shelfs, and draws are sparkling and they smell of lemon. It is fantastic!

Swallow and I are a good match for each other. We are both clean. We both have the same expectations of cleanliness. We don't have a problem rolling up our sleeves and helping out around the house...I just wish we weren't the only ones that did so. If you aren't going to help out others, the least you could do is not smoke a cigarette and watch them work. Have some common courtesy.