I really do like housework.

[azurelunatic]

It makes me feel good about getting things done, and I can feel how it works my muscles. Today's little exercise was sweeping the kitchen floor, then attacking problem spots with the new floor sponge. (Sponges go through several phases of their life-cycle. We keep two in the sink, and one for the floor in the under-sink cupboard. One of the sink-sponges is newer; one is older. The oldest one turns into a floor-sponge when it gets replaced.)

I don't know why I hate mopping the floor. If you ask me to mop the floor, and hand me a handled mop and bucket, or equivalent, especially a sponge mop, I balk and then get very pissy about doing it. I don't know why I hate it so much. (Rag mops are not such a problem.)

You ask me to get those nasty spots off the floor, I'm down on my hands and knees scrubbing with a floor sponge, and happily removing the spots, perhaps with teeth bared. (I get into my work.)

Not sure why.

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[ornjkitty.livejournal.com]

I'm the same way when it comes to mopping. I think part of it is that getting down on your hands and knees and scrubbing the heck out of the dirt is more personal. And the other part of it is that it kind of stretches credulity to believe that swishing something casually over the floor (and let's face it, no matter how much effort you put into it, you just aren't at the right angle to really SCRUB the de'il out of things with a mop!) actually does anything with the dirt other than move it around a little (thereby dirtying up the parts of it that may actually have been clean).

[azurelunatic]

Which is fine if you have strong detergent/powerful way of rinsing sponge, but if not...

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[ornjkitty.livejournal.com]

's why God invented rubber gloves, love!

[azurelunatic]

Or, in my case, lots and lots of hand lotion.

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[ornjkitty.livejournal.com]

**licks in sympathy**

[azurelunatic]

You may not want to lick the hand that is covered in equal parts WD-40 and hand lotion...

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[ornjkitty.livejournal.com]

Sure. I'll just borrow someone else's tongue! LOL
[Besides, I was planning on licking your _nose_ anyway, silly!]