Spring Fever

For the last two months, I’ve been itching to start spring cleaning. Get the house aired out, purge all the “stuff” that needs to go, wash the walls and baseboards… I’m talking down and dirty SERIOUS cleaning.

I try and do major cleaning once a week, so it’s not like I have been a slacking “home maker”. Weekly cleaning usually takes me about 4 ½ hours to get the whole house clean. I need three solid days off to get the “itch” of spring cleaning all knocked out.

As of today…it still hasn’t happened.

My excuse? The puppy.

Post puppy? It takes me 3 hours just to get the upstairs done. He chases the vacuum… he wants to play…he gets under my feet. It’s quite the challenge!

...Ok…ya! SO! I know. It’s a very poor excuse. Especially after I discovered Bully Sticks, a meat treat for puppies (which funny enough, I learned today: “Bully Sticks are 100% Beef Sticks Dog treats that are made from the pizzle or penis of the bull”) Give him one of those and I can actually get something done.

But the reason I babble about this, is that now of course, I have two days off. I take one look at the forcast…Monday, 18 degrees (Celsius), Tuesday…22. After being cooped up all winter I am JONESING! to get outside! The absolute LAST thing I want to do is spend a beautiful two days inside cleaning.

So what if there are dust bunnies under the couch that will attack small children…so who cares if you can draw pictures in the dust on the mantle? Who really needs to see themselves in the mirrors above the firplace and can’t because of the film over them?

I need fresh air! I want to play in the dirt! I want to start working on the golden tan of summer! I want to run around the yard with the puppy instead of swearing at him as he chases the broom LOL.

So yup…days off? Screw the good wife cleaning BS…Im playing outside!

Cheers!