Spring Cleaning

We don't typically do a Big Clean in the spring, but this year I started feeling the urge then. At the time I was stressed with studying Finnish, and waxjism was so depressed she barely ate/slept/moved and she had to get a long-term sickleave from office work school and a drastic change of medication. It took her about two months of even MORE sickness to taper off of it, during which I was too anxious/depressed to do much of anything besides try to make sure she was eating.

So by the time she started to feel better, the need for cleaning had been fomenting for months and my relief/zeal combined with her sudden rise to awareness/energy to move her body around and we embarked upon simultaneously deep cleaning everything, reorganizing everything, and throwing away as much stuff as possible.

We:

• moved all the furniture in the livingroom and reorganized and shifted the contents of the 5 livingroom bookcases


• replaced the kitty gym with this bookshelf hack


• threw away the hard cases to all our DVDs, transferred them to CD wallets inside boxes, made a database of them on the computer


• sewed covers for the two footcubes that have been unclothed for a few years (me)


• cleaned out all the closets, shelves, drawers and other storage things, sorting, throwing things out and reorganizing


• are in the process of doing all the laundry/washing all the things

But we still haven't finished cleaning and organizing the kitchen (we can only hope that we will be able to find space to put everything away) and we still have a bunch of heavy and/or unwieldy trash objects that we don't want to carry down four storeys to the dumpsters.

We concluded that we have lived here for way too long. And it was kind of overdue for a cosmetic makeover before we arrived.