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March 1, 2007
Yes, I’m talking about cleaning again. And not even in a useful, motivating sort of way like Swistle’s been doing (I love the picture of her twins on that entry. Furiously bleating toddlers are so hilarious when they don’t belong to me), although I do have one handy homemaking tip for you: spraying a bit of perfume onto a lamp’s lightbulb really does make a room smell nice.
Oh, and if your garbage disposal starts to stink, ramming a cut-up lime or lemon into its grind-hole then running it for a minute or so usually does the trick. Using wadded-up newspaper works much better to clean glass or a mirror than paper toweling (no smears, no lint residue). Also, washing your face with honey is supposedly great for your skin.
There! Now I’m practically Hints from fucking Heloise over here. Although I cannot for the life of me figure out why you’re supposed to wash out your coffee machine with vinegar.
ANYWAY. So we met with the housecleaner, who did a walkthrough of our house and talked with us about what we’d like them to focus on. The bad news is, she’s expensive, $90 a visit for a biweekly service. Each visit includes two cleaners working for about 1.5 hours, doing floors (vacuuming and mopping), dusting, counters, showers, toilets, tubs, etc.
I don’t know, it sounds pretty awesome to me. JB is grouchy about the cost and that’s exactly why we’ve canceled housecleaning in the past, so either 1) we both decide it’s worth the investment, 2) we decide it’s too expensive and we figure out something else (a cheaper service, or less-frequent visits), or 3) I decide it’s worth it and every time JB bitches I hand him a bottle of 409 and tell him to go ahead and get cracking.
We’ll see. Our first visit is scheduled for Monday.
In other news that is even more thrilling, except for the part where it’s not, I signed up for Weight Watchers Dot Com, which I’ve been diligently using for, let’s see, about 24 hours now. The website reminded me that I’d registered once before in 2004, when I’d listed my weight as 146, which was sort of encouraging in a way. I mean, at least I haven’t porked up very much since then. Silver lining, silver lining!
I’d forgotten about the obsessive little thrill of entering foods in the online tracker tool, watching things get converted to points and occasionally recoiling in horror. I like the system, really, because it forces me to consider both nutrition/calories and portion size and get realistic about what I’m eating. For instance, the KettleMania “Kinda Sweet, Kinda Salty” popcorn I love with all of my heart and soul and would eat every single night around 10 PM if only I had a constant supply in the house? Has, like, eleventy jillion grams of fat per serving. That’s . . . um, I don’t have a converter handy, but that’s basically a whole shitload of points. I think if I recorded it in my points tracker it would crash the website, immediately after displaying a blinking message: “WHAT ARE YOU, RETARDED?”.
I’m doing the “Flex Plan”, which gives me 20 points per day to expend on the various things I put in my mouth (what?), and I’m hoping I can stay with it long enough to see some real progress. Full disclosure: I’m also hoping (in a fearful, second-guessing kind of way, of course) our attempts at pregnancy this month were successful, so I’m kind of at cross-purposes here, but until the stick tells me otherwise the focus is on belly reduction.
Too bad I don’t have a good close for this yawnworthy entry, maybe something about strippers. How about Dog, instead?
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