Cleaning house
Megan insisted on watching Henry for us so Dave and I could go out and have a perfectly romantic evening staring into each other's eyes over bbq ribs in honor of our seventh anniversary. I took a quick look around our house and was completely blown away by the state of things. I decided it was imperative that I clean it before she arrives. To put this in context, Megan and I are at the stage of our friendship where neither of us feels at all pushed to clean when the other is coming over. That statement should give you an idea of how bad our house had gotten.
Since I'd rather write a 10,000 line epic poem entitled "What I Did Over Summer Vacation" in iambic pentameter than clean, I got onto realtor.com and looked at houses for sale in our area. To make a long story short, we have an appointment tomorrow to see what could possibly be my dream house in a somewhat less desirable location than our current one. Also I think I may have stumbled across a genius way to avoid cleaning our house: buy a new one.
Comments
Hey Jenn! Did we ever learn if a duck's quack echoes? Is Skip remiss in getting back to us on that?
Posted by: Debbie | January 11, 2008 06:53 PM
in my experience, the new ones are always clean, or at least you can make that a condition of sale. sounds like a good idea to me. where is the dream house?
Posted by: phoebe | January 11, 2008 07:41 PM
I don't think Skip did get back to us. Dave and I saw a Mythbusters about it but I don't remember the outcome, I just remember they couldn't get the duck to quack until they brought in a second duck for it to talk to.
Phoebe, it sounded like a good idea to me too until I realized if we sold our house it would have to be clean for the new owners. Tragic flaw in my logic that I shall now and forever ignore. Only you and I will know.
Posted by: Jenn | January 11, 2008 09:44 PM
Our place in VT was unbelieveably filthy and mouse-infested when we moved in.
The other thing is you still have to move all your stuff. Unless you abandon it.
Posted by: Mel | January 12, 2008 12:17 PM