Day: January 29, 2006

Time for bleach

By / January 29, 2006 / 8 Comments

I am hereby declaring this next week to be cleaning week. The micro organisms in my house are getting ready to take over. I know this because Patches has a fever, Gleek has “bad coughs,” and Kiki has a raging head cold. All of that and the mildewy patches in my bathroom are getting ready for an assault on the bedroom. This week I’ll be breaking out the chemical weapons. My house will be smelling like a swimming pool from all the bleach. Or at least that’s the plan so long as I don’t get sick, or kids don’t take up all my time, or I don’t get lazy.

Why do I get motivated to clean at 10 pm instead of 10 am? I just know all this zeal will be gone by tomorrow morning. sigh.

By / January 29, 2006

I’ve been watching my african violet, waiting for it to bloom. It usually blooms in January, but I forgot to water it in December and it went dormant. I’m longing for flowers and so I’m watching the bud stalks slowly creep upwards. It’ll probably be in bloom next week. This african violet was given to me in January of 2000 by some good friends who knew it was the anniversary of radiation therapy and wanted me to have flowers in the winter. It has given me flowers every winter since then and I love it every year.

I got my wish about lots of snow and I find that, while snow is better than bleak, what I really want is spring. But before spring comes I want to be completely done with writing about my radiation experiences. It sent tendrils into my life in many unexpected directions. Some of the tendrils are so sneaky that I didn’t even know they were there until I began writing these entries. Mine was not the only life affected.
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