Well, its been a while and I've been MIA. To be honest, not much has been going on. I've spent the past month or two moving and unpacking and digging through boxes. Its really quite incredible how much stuff one person can collect over time. And its equally impressive how much one person doesn't need a lot of stuff when they're happy.
I guess our collective national consumerism could be an indication of how unhappy our society is.
Anyway, I've been digging and unpacking and settling in to my new home life. Luna is settling in quite nicely and is s-l-o-w-l-y getting accustomed to her new brothers. They still hiss at each other from time to time, but now Luna and Cliff have taken to chasing each other down the long hallway that stretches between the living room and our bedroom. Its nice to see her playing with other cats - even if it is just for a few minutes until she remembers she doesn't like them. And the hissing starts again.
Baby steps I guess.
Anyway, for once I really have no complaints. Life is good. I'm happy. WE'RE happy. And the cats? Well, they're getting there!!
So, I guess all I can say is that I hope Spring gets here fast, because this cold is getting old!
Tuesday, February 24
Monday, February 9
Who'd have thunk it?
I think I've hit a whole new level of domestication....I am SO excited over our new vacuum cleaner!
We've needed a new vacuum for a while. The old one was older than dirt. It was held together with duct tape and even though it was an upright, it didn't always stay upright (which was a treat when it tipped over on you)!! I even noticed that it wasn't sucking up the big stuff anymore (like shreddings from the cat scratching posts).
So after many weeks of looking and hemming and hawing and not wanting to spend the money on a new one, we finally gave in and got one of the dual cyclone bagless uprights with a HEPA filter that is washable (no extra trash and no replacing it!).
I can only describe it one way....AMAZING!!
The living room was vacuumed with the old one yesterday morning so there wasn't stuff all over. When we got home, we put the new one together and tried it. Just from the "clean" oriental rug we have, we filled the container. TWICE. It was disgusting how much dirt and cat hair came out of the carpet! At first we thought maybe it was carpet fibers and that the rotating blades had chopped up the rug to make so much debris, but nope. Cat hair and dirt!! Its amazing how much was in what we thought was CLEAN!!
We proceeded to vacuum every rug/carpet in the apartment. And I can't tell you how skeeved I was at what I thought was clean but really wasn't! In fact, our bedroom rug had what I thought were dark stains on it - but after it was vacuumed you couldn't see them anymore! It was just DIRT that hadn't come up!
EEEEEW!!
I'm not sure if its that our new toy is just that great or if our old one was just that bad. Chances are its a little of both. But still, its amazing how CLEAN home is now!!
Kinda makes me want to run home and vacuum some more!!
(Who'd have ever thought that sentence would've come out of me!!)
We've needed a new vacuum for a while. The old one was older than dirt. It was held together with duct tape and even though it was an upright, it didn't always stay upright (which was a treat when it tipped over on you)!! I even noticed that it wasn't sucking up the big stuff anymore (like shreddings from the cat scratching posts).
So after many weeks of looking and hemming and hawing and not wanting to spend the money on a new one, we finally gave in and got one of the dual cyclone bagless uprights with a HEPA filter that is washable (no extra trash and no replacing it!).
I can only describe it one way....AMAZING!!
The living room was vacuumed with the old one yesterday morning so there wasn't stuff all over. When we got home, we put the new one together and tried it. Just from the "clean" oriental rug we have, we filled the container. TWICE. It was disgusting how much dirt and cat hair came out of the carpet! At first we thought maybe it was carpet fibers and that the rotating blades had chopped up the rug to make so much debris, but nope. Cat hair and dirt!! Its amazing how much was in what we thought was CLEAN!!
We proceeded to vacuum every rug/carpet in the apartment. And I can't tell you how skeeved I was at what I thought was clean but really wasn't! In fact, our bedroom rug had what I thought were dark stains on it - but after it was vacuumed you couldn't see them anymore! It was just DIRT that hadn't come up!
EEEEEW!!
I'm not sure if its that our new toy is just that great or if our old one was just that bad. Chances are its a little of both. But still, its amazing how CLEAN home is now!!
Kinda makes me want to run home and vacuum some more!!
(Who'd have ever thought that sentence would've come out of me!!)
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