Phobias

Ok, not really on topic here but kinda sorta since it has to do with cleaning. I have a sponge phobia a.k.a poreferaphobia", from the Latin "porus" (pore) "ferre" (to bear) and "phobia" (to fear). Teehee...i have a real phobia with a shnazzy Latin name. I love it. But really, sponges creep me out. It makes it kinda hard with the whole scrubbing your sink thing. I have to hide my sponge. I feel like an idiot talking about hiding my sponge, but really if I don't it will get to the icky point. You know where sponges sit around and get all nasty and god only knows what is infecting it and it gets that disgusting smell and then the smell gets on your hands and it WON'T come off!!! Ok, the icky point. So I can't handle when sponges get like that (its like when foods start to infect each other on your plate, totally unacceptable.) So I have been hiding my sponge because then the only time it comes out is when I use it to scrub the sink or bathtub and there is Clorox involved which means it gets bleached out and therefor NOT icky. I promise you all that I am only MOSTLY crazy, not ENTIRELY crazy. So that is my rant on cleaning. I have some other pretty awesome phobias but no others that I can think of that involve cleaning.

So I read the next chapter of the book and its pretty much all about your attitude and especially about not being a martyr. I'm doing pretty good at not being a martyr but it happens sometimes. I think the attitude thing is not bad either. At least while I blog I seem to have a pretty good outlook on things. It also starts really talking about your morning and evening routine. And writing them down so you have to check them off (she gets all wonderfully geeky by putting them in plastic covers and using a dry erase marker to check them off.) I have to confess to a bit of geekiness myself because I love lists! They are awesome! And it actually is really good for your esteem when you see all those little check marks that mean you got all your groceries, or accomplished all your "To-Dos" and packed everything you need for a trip. So I'm totally behind this one. I made myself two little lists. They don't have a lot of cleaning on them at the moment but I figure I'll get there eventually. There is some cleaning on both (which is pretty darn amazing because as most of you know I AM NOT A MORNING PERSON.) On the morning issue, I have it down so that my alarm goes off first at 6:39 exactly and I hit snooze until 7:07 where I then get up and leave the house by 7:35. The least I can do in the morning the happier of a camper I am. So I've made it through most of my evening list, besides the things I do right before I go to sleep. Woo Hoo for me!!!

Progress is on the horizon. Now I have to do some actual cleaning. Don't expect much from me though for the next few days. Leaving at 10:00am and getting home at 9:30pm don't leave room for much, but I think the main thing I want to add to my morning list is one cleaning goal for the next day. I think for tomorrow I'm going to fold my laundry. I can do this, right?