Not quite Mary Poppins, but I do have a list

Today I had a “leave” day, but still found myself getting up at my now “usual” time, followed by my now “usual” morning routine. Only difference was that there was no laptop to switch on, which meant that I had my day free to do whatever I wanted. I ran through my mental check list and decided to “tackle” my kitchen draws and oven! I know, right?

Am I the only one, or are you also surprised by how many corkscrews you own? I wonder if it is one for each grape varietal or something? Bottle stops were the other thing! As if open wine lasts that long in this house. Actually I don’t know when the last time was that we used one of those. Am going to blame it on lock-down, which saw my alcohol-free March go belly-up!

I also discovered 2 knife sharpeners, which I forgot I had, so as I was sorting through my kitchen knives, I also sharpened them at the same time. I bit of multi-tasking, before I forgot I had it again! Now the other thing which surprised me was the fact that I saved every single appliance manual of every single appliance which I have ever bought over the last 15 years, including of items which were thrown away 10 years ago! Who knew that I was a hoarder of such useless reading materials? I did find a recipe of a beer bread which I need Jason to make, since we are now on our last loaf of bread and according to him, the world is now about to end!

Cleaning and re-arranging of drawers done, then onto the oven. So I read the instructions on the bottle of oven cleaner, spray the foam, whereby I practically have a chemical high. Shoving your head into a just sprayed oven probably is not a good idea, but how else are you going to make sure that you have not missed a spot? Oven door closed so that the oven cleaner can do its thing, I go in search of kitchen gloves and all I find are my garden gloves, which would have to do, since apparently I don’t own kitchen gloves. Yes, OK, so I am spoilt and stick everything in the dishwasher, but I blame it on Jason whose motto is, “if it cannot go in the dishwasher, why do we own it?” Therefore it looks I have not owned kitchen gloves in at least 5 years! The other thing I went in search of was steel wool to scrub the oven racks with. Apparently I do not own that either! Guess the Handy Andy with a bit of elbow crease needs to do the trick.

So far on the shopping MUST have list:

1. Kitchen gloves

2. Steel wool

3. Dusting cloths, as you can never have enough

Yes, just in case I end up in another lock-down. The thought did occur to me, as to why my domestic has not requested any of these items. What does she use? Gosh, I am a terrible supplier of cleaning utensils! The products are plentiful, but the utensils not no much

A non-alcoholic beer later and I find the energy to sort out my sock and underwear draw. It is a week day and Jason is working. I thought I better not push it, since I still had a blog to write! Now 2 more weeks of lock-down I probably should not rush through the cleaning list which looks something like this:

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DONE:

• Fridge and freezer

• Food pantry

• Oven

• Rearranging of wardrobe

• Sorting out of sock and underwear draws

• Freshening of mattress

• Taking stock of the medicine cupboard

STILL TO DO:

• Rearranging of kitchen cupboards

• Listening to and sorting out of all my now ancient music cassettes

• Rearranging of garage cupboards

• Sorting out the linen cupboard

A few more things could probably get added, but lets see how bored I get. I do still have my “day job”, a coaching practice which needs attention, 3 books from Book Club to read, TV binging to do, a few recipes to try out, Italian lessons which I could do, scrap-booking and board games to play, a wine collection to drink, a garden to weed. Now who says I am going to be bored?

Until next time…….

Love, light and positive change,

Ophelia