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metaphortunate son ([personal profile] metaphortunate) wrote2015-04-20 09:01 pm

from beneath you, it devours

Today I spent two hours trying to de-rat poop the garage and the basement. I now understand something deeply in my soul that I did not truly understand before. I mean, if you had said it to me, I would have agreed, but I didn't know it. And that thing is: whatever you do not clean will be dirty.

God. Think about all the parts of your house that you don't clean. Under the stove. Behind the refrigerator. The cracks in the windowsills. The space under the sink. The gaps where things don't quite meet. The rot under the plywood, the crumbling of the foundations. Think of the dirt collecting there. Think of the silverfish and spider eggs and black mold waiting there to diffuse out into the air you breathe. It turns out we have never mopped the garage floor and as a result parts of it are made out of humus. There were parts so dusty I went to mop them with my 10% bleach solution and it just beaded up and ran off. Waves of spiders ran from me. I didn't even get to it all, because I would have had to move the 50 lbs of old paint cans that the previous owners left us. I am never going to feel clean again, I am never going to feel safe in my house again, and I kind of want to secede from my skin because it's been touching everything around me.
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[personal profile] jae 2015-04-21 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
So. Horrifying. :(

-J
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[personal profile] jesse_the_k 2015-04-21 12:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Aieeeeeeeee!

Silverfish rule in hell.
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[personal profile] laurashapiro 2015-04-21 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Eeeewww!

Are there people who regularly mop the garage floor, though? I mean, are we MEANT to clean these things? #AskingForAFriend

Harimad here

(Anonymous) 2015-04-21 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Some parts of my garage floor are easy, usually we sweep rather than mop. But that one corner, and the window sills near the sink... ugh! And that's just what I can see.

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[personal profile] laurashapiro 2015-04-21 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
True. I just...we are renting a house that's over 120 years old. The layers of accumulated crud defy description; we couldn't make a dent in it without professional help.
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[personal profile] laurashapiro 2015-04-22 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I have spring cleaning fantasies fairly often, but I have not yet figured out how to get P. excited about it.
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[personal profile] liseuse 2015-04-21 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I clean behind the fridge fairly frequently, but only because I also break glasses fairly frequently and the shards end up skittering behind the fridge every single time. I try very hard not to think about behind the cooker because that way lies wanting to secede from my skin, as you say.
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[personal profile] the_siobhan 2015-04-23 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
*waves in greeting*

We have mutual friends and we both posted about the horrors of rodent poop in the same 48 hour period. I interpret this to mean that I need to sub to your DW. (Don't feel obligated to sub back if you don't want to, I'm won't be offended.)

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[personal profile] kest 2015-05-27 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
*stamp of approval*

(Um. That's on y'all being blog friends, not on rodent poop. Fuck rodent poop.)