things i hate: cleaning!

the 'rents are coming into town this week and i've been procrastinating for the past 2 months to start cleaning my place and getting it in shape to have my mom, dad, gma and aunt stay with me. over the past couple of years i've been slowly letting my downstairs rooms... especially my bedroom... get filled up with "stuff" and the more it piled on the less i wanted to deal with it. i slowly stopped letting anyone go downstairs when i have friends over.

since my parents are going to be staying in my room while they're here it was inevitable that i finally start the cleaning process. you'd think that tackling a project this big would be best done in small manageable chunks, but since i'm a professional procrastinator, my tactic was just to do a deep dive and don't come out until it's all done. and so i spent 7 hours and got it done this past sunday. yes, that's SEVEN HOURS of pretty much non-stop cleaning/purging/recycling!!! and that's JUST my bedroom, nothing else.

however, i do love my almost perfectly clean room now and am glad i had the "motivation" to get it done. BUT it will not make me like cleaning any more than before. the reason i absolutely hate cleaning is b/c it always leads to a ton of sneezing and blowing of my nose. in fact, i usually get sick after a do a round of cleaning b/c my sinuses never really recover from it (yes, i've even tried the neti pot and wearing face masks while cleaning). now, most people would think well if you just clean more often then you wouldn't have to do massive clean-ups or maybe it won't be so dusty in places, but i seriously think i'm just allergic to the activity of cleaning. i vacuum my upstairs pretty frequently and yet every time i pull our the vacuum and start going, my nose starts running and i start sneezing.

ok my whine session is done now, just one more day of cleaning to go!