OMG - It's the Clean Machine!

 A couple of times a year

I go against the grain of who I am

and go on a cleaning frenzy,

shocking those around me.

Not just the weekly vaccum and floor wash,

or the biweekly dusting, if we're lucky

but an all out cleaning frenzy.

I never know when its going to come on

there are no identified triggers that I can avoid

it usually just starts with an innocent round with my Bissel Upright vaccum

or a casual sweep of the kitchen.

Today, it was the living room that fell victim.

I did get the bedrooms vacuumed

and the kitchen floor washed

but the living room bore the brunt of the action.

Somewhere between cleaning the glass topped coffee table

and wondering if this Turtle Wax Upholstery Cleaner really works,

I fell victim.

I put on some music

in this case, it was an old Billy Joel cassette that I taped from an old employer's CD

back in the days when CD's were fairly new

and blank cassettes were still the preferred method of recording favourite tunes

I gave my husband and my dog fair warning of what was going to happen....

Music that they probably wouldn't care for,

Sung along with and probably overpowered

by me...I am told I can't sing very well, but I beg to differ!

So, while belting out tunes about piano men, up town girls, innocent men and New York states of minds,

I spritzed, sprayed and wiped my way around the room,

cleaning the nooks and crannies and feeling like I accomplished something good.

I even stood on a chair to wipe some spots off of the ceiling that looked like someone threw half of a cup of cofee up at it - they've been there a while!  There's also a couple of spots that came one Christmas morning when my son threw silly puddy up to see if it would stick.  It did.

If I'm lucky, the tidiness will last a day.

Maybe when the snow melts and spring is finally here,

I'll feel like doing it again!