Tougher than I thought
This carpet cleaning is going to take longer than I anticipated and be a tougher job than I thought it would be. I had forgotten how much stuff I have crammed into the bedroom, and specifically, under the bed. All this stuff has to be moved into the living room so I can shift the bed around and get to the carpet under it.
The living room now looks like delivery day at the Salvation Army.
I also didn’t take into account the amount of wait time that’s involved. Waiting for the carpet to dry that is. I think I got a bit over zealous with the soap, so it’s taking forever for it to dry.
Sleeping in that room tonight is up in the air. The problem is that I know I won’t sleep well if I have to sleep on the sofa, AND I’ve piled all manner of "stuff" there so I’d have to find a place to move all that stuff to before I could sleep there anyway.
A carpet cleaning conundrum.
While waiting for the bedroom to dry I tackled the bathroom. No, it’s not carpeted, but I needed to clean the shower tiles to be sure there was no mildew growing, clean all the shelves and other surfaces, and wash the floor.
The floor in there gets washed regularly, but never seems clean to me. So in a moment of genius – or insanity – I decided to use the carpet cleaner in there.
I dumped out the cleaning fluid and just put water in the tank, splashed Lysol on the floor and let the brushes do the scrubbing. I don’t know if it really made a difference, but I figured that it couldn’t hurt.
Now the bathroom is all sparkly.
I also wrote a lengthy e-mail to Michael about my pathetic life, bemoaning the fact that half the world has gone to the four corners of the earth and I am stuck at home cleaning carpets. I wrote in a very tongue in cheek manner and got the loveliest reply:
You can't possibly be a pathetic person, since you write such delightful e-mail. This is a law of nature. I think it was first expounded by Descartes: "I write e-mail, therefore I am." But then, after a particularly fine afternoon of philosophizing, he amplified that to read, "I write lovely e-mail, therefore I am lovely." He might have had a glass or three of wine.
He can make me feel so good.
Time to check the carpets.
Listening to: All Broadway stuff
Reading: Call It Destiny Jayne Ann Krentz
Weather: 30’s partly sunny
Trivia:Are whales really larger than dinosaurs?
Some whales are. The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) can grow to be 110 feet long and weigh more than 150 tons. That's considerably larger than the biggest dinosaur ever was, and certainly puts them in the class as the single biggest mammal. It seems that whales are warm-blooded animals with skeletal, vascular, alimentary, respiratory, sensory, and reproductive features that are nearly identical in construction as those in other mammals despite the fact that they look more like fish than they do other mammals. Technically, whales are classified in their own group, called Cetaceans, that also include porpoises and dolphins. These animals breathe air like other mammals and must come to the water's surface to breathe through blowholes located on top of their heads. They have completely adapted to living their lives fully at sea. If they wash ashore, they're helpless, as without the support of water they can't move, and their lungs may be crushed by the weight of their body. But, in spite of their large size, whales do all right, as they live in the ocean, where there's plenty of room for them. They've successfully exploited all of their available aquatic habitats, even being found in estuaries and rivers. Some whales are social, traveling in groups called schools, herds, pods, or gams. They communicate using low-pitched signals, such as the barks, whistles, screams, and moans audible to humans, and use brief clicks of high-intensity sound, typically inaudible to the human ear, to navigate or to identify food sources. Whales don't really have any natural enemies other than man. Since they yield several products of commercial value, including whale meat, whale oil, whalebone, and ambergris, entire industries have grown up around them. So successful were they that the whale's future seemed in danger. In an attempt to conserve whales, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) tried to limit the sizes, kinds, locations, and seasons of catches. They've been partially successful, having established a whale sanctuary, permanently banning whaling in the waters around Antarctica. But the future of these great beasts remains uncertain.
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skullduggery (skull-DUG-uh-ree) - Dishonest actions or cheating. "Janice's first presentation as new marketing director was an inauspicious one, filled with verbal gaffes and incorrect slides, and many suspected skullduggery had been undertaken to ensure her failure."
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You've probably become more realistic recently about relationships. You want to be sure that you get things right now. But there are still several complicated questions left to be answered. There's no need to rush into anything now. You may find yourself discovering more and more about others, and learning a lot about yourself in the process. If you keep your eyes open, time will reveal everything you need to know about the people around you.