Domestic goddess

[lnr]

I took today off work because I was feeling lazy and fancied turning a four day weekend into a 5 day weekend. So today I spent working pretty much non-stop from 9:40 til 5:40, with just a break for lunch and one for a glass of water. I think I must have got a bit of spring cleaning bug or something.

I cleaned the bathroom properly including the loo, threw away some cardboard from upstairs, jogged to the postbox and back, put away the washing up, cleaned all the surfaces in the kitchen including the draining board, cleaned the dining table and mats, did the washing up, cleaned the top of the cooker, cleaned the inside of the fridge, started cleaning the inside of the cooker, put away the shopping which Tesco delivered, made a note of best before dates to work out what to eat first, finished cleaning the inside of the cooker (it's a lot better if not perfect), had lunch, washed up again, did two loads of washing, mopped the kitchen and bathroom floors, hoovered upstairs, downstairs and on the stairs, dusted everywhere: shelves, skirting boards, windowsills, electrical appliances and even the tops of pictures and doors, stopped for a drink, got out recipe book, walked to ASDA and back in the rain to get some ingredients, baked a cake, washed up again again, took cake out of oven, had a shower and iced the cake. I was just finishing that off when Mike got back and did the last load of washing up :-) Look, cake!:

Comments

[perdita-fysh.livejournal.com]

Nice cake!

[lnr]

It's this one, with crumbled flake and mini-eggs on top instead of grated chocolate.

[bellinghwoman.livejournal.com]

I feel tired just reading that :-)

The cake looks lovely.

[lnr]

Funny that, cos I'm shattered :-) Worth it though. And it made a really nice change from a desk job.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Wow! SuperWoman! :-) And the cake looks delicious OM NOM NOM NOM.

BTW thank you very much for the CD player (which sion_a & 1ngi dropped off this morning). It survived the journey fine, the display seems to work (thought you said it didn't?) and the remote just needed batteries as per your note :-) so as far as I'm concerned it's 100% functional -- you sure you don't want some beer tokens for it?

[lnr]

Display fine: oh cool, I was sure at the very least the backlight wasn't working. And I'm chuffed the remote works with new batteries. But honest it was probably a 50 quid max player when it was bought 12 years ago, I really don't need any money for it! Stick a couple of quid in a charity box of your choice if you like or buy yourself an easter egg from me!

[sparrowsion]

Glad it survived the journey—I'm never entirely convinced that anything will survive Milton Keynes's roundabouts.

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

Ooh that looks lovely! :)

It's amazing how many things you can think of to do when you have time. I don't think I ever sit still for very long before I'm off doing something domestic. Must be the 'having your own house' thing... ;)

[lnr]

I was thinking we might need to invite a few people over at some point over the weekend to help eat it...