Carpet Cleaning Diva
I am not happy to announce that I have become a carpet cleaning Diva.
It is not a title I intended to seek, nor is it one that I wanted.
I realize that "Carpet Cleaning Queen" has a better alliterative cadence to it, however, I refuse to attach the title of Queen to the word "cleaning".
In any case, I have gone over the top in this department - or maybe it's over the edge.
And the worst part is, I've yet to tackle the living room.
I do have some words of advice for anyone who has the urge to take on this project:
Do not wear shoes or slippers when cleaning carpets, the soles are dirty and leave marks that you have to scrub out. This is irritating, but you learn this early on.
Do not wear socks while cleaning carpets - they get soggy. This is unpleasant.
Bare feet seem to be the way to go. However, this involves a word of caution. Bare feet are fine when you are on the carpeted areas, however, BEWARE OF TILE FLOORS! Yes, the bathroom floor can become an indoor skating rink when your soapy feet hit the tiles. I did a "double axle" that would have brought Dick Button to tears. (Not that I think this is hard to do)
Take an allergy pill BEFORE you start working. Or better yet, wear a dust mask. The dust that is stirred up (as well as the cat hair), coupled with the scent of the cleaning stuff can lead to new adventures in sneezing and wheezing.
Watch an episode of "I Love Lucy". Thanks to my memory for useless trivia I recalled that you should start at the back of the room and work your way towards the door. I didn't start out this way and had a sudden flash of Lucy painted into a corner.
I lit a candle of thanks in her honor.
Admit to not being young anymore. Take a handful of Advil before you go to bed. If you fail to do this you will wake up at 3 am with every muscle in your body screaming in protest. It's not the carpet cleaning, it's the furniture moving that will kill you.
Realize that as much as you might want to rearrange the furniture in the room the reason you put the pieces in those places in the first place was because they were the only way they would FIT. Save yourself excess moving and aggravation. It's the square peg/round hole thing.
The living room awaits.
Groan.
Listening to: A shuffle of CDs, from Broadway to the Cranberries
Reading: Call It Destiny Jayne Ann Krentz
Weather: I haven’t been out, but it looks sunny and cold
Trivia:Was Sherlock Holmes a real person?
No, but a lot of people think he was. The fictional character of Sherlock Holmes fictional character was created in 1887 by the English writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a doctor with a lagging practice. To fill the time he began writing detective fictions based, in no small part, on the character of C. Auguste Dupin, created by Edgar Allen Poe. The stories, published in the popular "Strand" magazine, caught the public's imagination and within a short time Holmes became the prototype for the modern mastermind detective, with the character generating the most enduring tradition in detective fiction. A slim, nervously intense, hawk-nosed man, Holmes' trademark was his use of purely scientific reasoning to solve crimes, making the most startling deductions from trivial details and bits of physical evidence overlooked by others. Nearly all of the Holmes stories were narrated by his partner and best friend, Dr. John H. Watson. It's precisely this technique which has been the cause of so much confusion over the years. Watson always refers to himself as Holmes' "biographer," with Holmes often complaining within the story itself of the liberties and exaggerations Watson had taken in previous accounts. Additionally, there is a real continuity within the stories themselves with mention being made of adventures yet to be written. None of this was actually indicative of Holmes actual existence, but merely a narrative tool Doyle utilized to breathe life into his characters. Of course, this tool turned out to be so successful that, even today, people believe that Holmes was a living, breathing person. Incidentally, while the convention of Holmes pipe smoking and violin playing are highly prevalent in all of the stories, the convention of his wearing of a wool cape and deerstalker cap are not - Holmes only wore these trademark items in a single story.
Cool word:fete [n., v. FAYT / FET]
A fete is a large, elaborate party, festival, or celebration, often
held outdoors and often in honor of some person. To have a fete held
in your honor is to be feted. Example: "The yacht club spared no expense to celebrate its founder's birthday, and held a huge fete for
its four hundred members." A fete is a festival that often includes a feast. It's also a time of great festivity. All of these words emerged in the 19th century from the same ancestor, Old French feste (festival).
The original Latin root was festus (festive), which was also the source of festoon (party decoration; to decorate) and Spanish fiesta (holiday, time of celebration).
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If you rely on your gut feel and intuition it can prove a good move. You are able to enjoy the benefits of shrewd insights, or so it appears to other people, who are surprised by how well your feel for events proves to be. Although you may not even understand yourself quite how you arrive at your conclusions it is linked to your ability to spot subtle signs and indicators that are invisible to less observant people than yourself.