Clean?

I have a confession to make.  I am not a very good housekeeper. 

I would like to be a good housekeeper and I continue to make resolutions to myself to do better, but somehow, I just never seem to get around to it. 

Now, I'm not talking about clutter.  Clutter happens in a busy life whether you like it or not.  I can deal with clutter -- you just move the stuff from one place to another (preferably another room) and voila, the clutter is gone!  (Yesterday I actually found a book that Mom lent me that had been missing since July.  All it took was moving some clutter from one place to another!)

When I say I am not a good housekeeper, I mean real dirt and dust.  It may not surprise many of the readers of this blog that I do not like to dust.  It is a time consuming chore that seems to be never-ending and then needs to be done again just days later.  However, I do sometimes wish that someone else would do some dusting around here . . . it is really getting bad. 

As a matter of fact, it was getting so bad in the kitchen that I was not sure if the stuff on my cabinet doors was dust or something worse.  I actually took bleach water to all the cabinet doors and the buffet today.  I also (for the first time since I moved in) cleaned my oven today.  This was prompted by all the time in the last couple of weeks that I have set the smoke alarms off when the gunk on the bottom of the oven started to burn.  -- Yeah, not a very good housekeeper.

But the good news is that I now have one room done and my kitchen smells like bleach and lemon scented oven cleaner! 

Just so you know, I do not blog about this to "brag" about my poor housekeeping, but rather to make a resolution in writing that I am going to do better.  ----    (Right after I finish this book that I just found.)