No "One-Hour House Cleaning," But Faster Than Normal

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I read an article that said that sleeping in on the weekend can help you live longer. I did my part. Woke up at the normal time for work, but decided that I wanted to go back to sleep for a little while. I was having an intense dream, so I slept a lot longer than I intended. The girls were hungry. First Mimi and then Zara ate some dry food. Then Zara tried to "bury" it. Goof :)   

 

I'm making a second cup of coffee to jumpstart myself into cleaning. Hmm, I added an extra "e" into coffee at first. COFFEEEEEE! First, I have to sit with Her Royal Highness, who is complaining. Or maybe she's doing vocal exercises. I've always said that she's the opera singer of cats.

 

Done with the kitchen except for washing the floor. I'm taking a short break. The person with the "one hour cleaning" (I've already blown that) said to vacuum the floor. Well, that person does not have cats because the vacuum didn't do a good job of picking up kitty litter and dry cat food. I swept the floor.

 

The Tightwad Gazette has convinced me to wash out plastic freezer bags. Why not. I used to save used aluminum foil, but I don't really have a place to put it in this house. I need to work on my grocery price book sometime this weekend. I started making a list of things that I buy regularly for the book.

 

Made pancakes, my weekend treat.

 

Mixed reviews on using the carpet cleaner to wash floors. The squeegee kept falling off. It does a nice job of scrubbing, but it leaves dirty water on the floor. I needed to go over it with a towel to pick up the dirty water. However, the whole process was a lot faster than cleaning the floor manually. It's taking a long time to dry and it isn't looking great. Someone is selling a used steam mop for $20 on Mercari, so I might get it and see if it cleans better.

 

I cleaned the bathroom. I did the floor by hand. One thing that I did was to apply cleaning solution to the spots where Harlee made messes and let them soak. It helped.

 

I found, to my dismay, that although the chest freezer was on, everything in there had thawed. I turned it off and on, and it made a noise like it was turning on. I hope that it's not broken. I had intended to have frozen pizza, but am making Aldi's Parmesan Pasta (a Pastaroni ripoff) instead. I'm too tired to make anything more complicated.