Monday, August 09, 2010
Clean Your House
Monday is a special day. It's the day we recover from Sunday. Someone asked me for a playlist to listen to while cleaning her house. You won't get this kind of service from Dooce, y'all. I hope it inspires and energizes you. It is also designed to bring out and soothe the martyr in you. Why should you have to clean the house anyway? Why is it so hard to get a little help around here? Is that so much to ask? Let Bono murmur in your ear. You deserve it. Unless you hate Bono. If that's the case you'll have a good chuckle over his falsetto while the rest of us catch our breath. And if your cleaning routine involves cleaning up excrement, vomit, or urine, take heart--Track #9 is for you. Why Elvis and Willie? Well, Willie's version is more beautiful but I think we'd all rather hear Elvis saying it to us. This is a long playlist because there's a lot of resentment to build up and subsequently let go while you are putting away other people's things. Listen up: When your husband gets home it will be like he already said "sorry."
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Oh good. I'm cleaning my office and had a friend's blog playlist going. I'll switch to yours.
ReplyDeleteI heart you. Really I do. I'm recovering from Sunday, not because I went to church, but because my baby barfed all over me while I stayed home from church.
ReplyDeleteSo you can see why this playlist is a tender mercy sent down to me from up above. Thank you for helping me feel the Spirit while going through my Google Reader.
I really am happy that you did this for us! You are so thoughtful. Thanks a heap!
ReplyDeletehear, hear! yay you!
ReplyDeleteI, too, am recovering. People are touring my house tomorrow and it's a smoldering pile of campin-out crap. the playlist is an answer to my earlier prayer, the one where i said, "HEAVEN HELP US."
way to be an instrument in the lord's hands, KC.
This playlist makes me want to throw on a 60s shift dress, tie a silk scarf on and go at it. The cleaning, that is.
ReplyDeleteBahahaha!!! I actually stopped reading Dooce after I discovered your blog! She turned
ReplyDeleteYou could have included Michael Buble with Elvis & Willie. His nearly brings me to tears.
ReplyDeleteOn My Mind Trifecta...
Haven't cked your blog in several months because of a loathsome move, into a house that was left filthy, so I've been forced into a lot of deep, and I mean really deep, cleaning of late. And I absolutely hate to clean. Esp. other people's dirt! It puts me in the worst mood. And I'm trying to make Mondays my cleaning day (a first for me...any kind of routine like this) so now I hate Mondays even more.
ReplyDeleteYou made this Monday better because I laughed at all your posts. I love your sense of humor.
i seriously love your taste in music! Please keep the playlists coming. Marks a fan too. i also appreciate the sleeping on your face post...too bad my kids think im a jumping bag. ughh
ReplyDeleteI love this. Unfortunately I didn't see it for Monday cleaning. I'll have to use it for Tuesday cleaning. Oh well, I didn't get finished with Monday cleaning anyway.
ReplyDeleteThanks.
This is just what I needed after A MONTH OF CLEANING RESENTMENT has been building up like slimly soap scum around my heart. Well done.
ReplyDeleteWay to be "in tune". Love the list. Love the post. Just so YOU know, you quite possibly saved my husband's life today with your "spot on" playlist. Let's just say, it didn't really soothe the "martyr" more like it detinated the "ticking time bomb of fury". I'm sure if my husband had any idea, he'd thank you.....
ReplyDeleteYeah. Dooce only WISHES she was cool like you. I am currently rereading Zippy and you know what? I think you and Haven have many delightful literarish things in common.
ReplyDeleteOh, and thanks for the playlist. I cranked up the computer in my bedroom and successfully sorted and stacked (I am opposed to folding) well over 3,047 clean items of clothing that had been languishing in a pile on the floor at the foot of our bed. For weeks.
I so needed this today. Why didn't I read your blog first thing in the AM?! I'm gonna have to start making that a habit.
ReplyDeleteP.S. your blog is way better than dooce. Just sayin'.
P.P.S. Scarlett pooped all over me today, I was wearing my favorite jeans and yes it got on them. And Lucy jumped out of the tub, ran over and crawled up onto our bed, and peed all over our comforter. See? I so needed this today. I'm all over it tomorrow.
this is brilliant, thank you
ReplyDelete"You won't get this kind of service from Dooce, y'all." I'm dying. Dooce is overrated.
ReplyDeleteI happen to love Bono. And Ruby Blue is one of my faves!
Instead of giving my husband the Glowering Look of Death while I'm cleaning but he's watching a movie, I should put on your playlist. It won't change that he's still not helping, but it can perk me up while I work, and then I get dibs on naps anyway since I worked so hard! Thanks for the motivation!
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