cleaning day
date night last night was wonderful. today is cleaning day. it's time to sweep the floors. each boy has a broom, leaving none for dad. that's why i'm blogging. that'll teach 'em. getting to lunchtime hockey at windriver seems highly improbable today. ah, well. they only know me as that guy who brings two kids. well, that nickname is better than big red which was my nickname at the last group i played lunchtime hockey with. most of that group is now my regular monday night team. perhaps that's why they fessed up to my covert nickname. hopefully this season will be better than last. we finished 0-9-1. ouch! alas, i procrastinate. my office is now full of brooms. time to work.
[time passes]
well, the house is more or less clean. we used to have a cleaning service. in the beginning it was a good deal. we had two professionals working for 4 hours. then we got less and less time. then things weren't getting done. eventually, i was forced to let them go because the house just plain wasn't cleaned. we were down to paying for one person for an hour and a half. the boys and i spent many days cleaning places in the house that hadn't been touched in 5 years. we learned not to do any cleaning on mondays. we would kick up so much dust that i wouldn't be able to breathe at the hockey game on monday night. maybe that's why we finished winless. uh huh. right.