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Monday, November 30th, 2009 05:32 pm
After Herculean efforts I bought a light bulb for the kitchen today (fluorescent, 1500mm) and discovered the dreadful truth. I live like a pig. For some reason, the new bulb seems to be brighter than the one it replaced, and the kitchen is now lit like the opening scene of a panto ("are we all happy boys and girls?") bringing into sharp relief my kitchen-cleaning failure of the past few weeks. (This may be a lie. It may have been longer – cleaning the kitchen rather went by the wayside when I got depressed. Don't eat at my house.)

I first tried to buy this thing on Sunday at the horrible shop near where [info - personal] gloria1 lives, and over a week since the previous one bit the dust. They had everything else, they sell kitchens let alone kitchen sinks, but not a 1500mm fluorescent bulb. Every other size, and shape, but not that. So, frustrated, I bought a Christmas tree. As you do, obviously.

The young man in the horrible shop told me strange stories of an electrical shop further down the road at Thatched House - which is near the place where the psychiatrist has his office – but obviously he was not open on a Sunday. It seemed to me therefore that I could roll two visits up together today.

Had I the sense given a billiard ball I'd have visited the psychiatrist first and then bought the bulb, but for some reason that obvious way round eluded me and I arrived at the psychiatrist's office clutching a fragile 1500mm of glass. And the psychiatrist says I'm not mad – really, he does. I asked him.

I also asked him what I should do about my generalised cleaning failure. He said, "Get a cleaner." Which is what [info - personal] gloria1 told me when I asked her. So I'm considering it.
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Monday, November 30th, 2009 09:34 pm (UTC)
Not sure I can afford one forever, but I'm looking into it.

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 11:17 am (UTC)
You could try a one-off spring clean thing to get yourself all sparkling and fresh for 2010, and then see how it goes? Once a quarter or so? Thing is, as I've found (and I'm a pig) once I got my flat clean and tidy, it was easier to *keep* it clean and tidy. But let it go too far and I'm back in pig-town.

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 11:22 am (UTC)
My immediate difficulty is that cleaners clean, and it's the tidying up I haven't done for an eon. I am considering getting someone in for a day to help me tidy up and give it a spring clean, and then going from there with a regular cleaner.