The Heart of a Princess
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Jan. 15, 2009
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Bubbles and suds!
I'll tell you something, dishwater hands are quite literally a pain, and ultimately worse for someone such as myself considering I have winter egzima. The arctic tempuratures of the downstairs of our swamp-villa only complicate the problem.
And I didn't even wash that many dishes.
Well not enough to count as the main source of my crackly skin delema. It was scrubbing the cabinets that did is, and yes, I used dish washing soap, so you can get an idea of the brutal condition it left them in. But boy, was it worth it! After three years, God blessed mom with sufficient strength, and we finally started on the cabinets. We made our way from the left side of the room with the two pantries to the...left side of the room with the two pantries. *laugh* We had a bit of a late start, but even so, they are a good days work, mind you. I scrubbed them down and rinsed them, walking back and forth to the sink for a fresh bach of soapiness or to rinse a soap ladened rinse sponge some fifty thousand times. Wanting to do the cabinet closest to the stove first, thinking it would make sense to store the caned food there, we removed the second pantry's set of shelves. There were shelves missing and a most suspisious seam on the pantry floor. Apon inspection we stumbled across something most unpleasant. The people living here before not only stored cleaners, mop, and bucket (as marks can attest to), but left a horrible rip in the contact paper at the bottom of the cabinet where some cleaner burned clear through to the flaky ply wood, carefully hidden by the two missing small shelves. *sigh* I suppose we should have inspected these things more closely when we first moved in, but nothing we can do now except cover them with vinal flooring as we did under the sink. That I am going to worry about cleaning up tomorrow. As for tonight, we had pizza. Dellisious, sweet, Metro pizza. Alls well that ends well. *grins* Ah, Dad's home! I'll write more later on, maybe in the morning. Until then!
Very Rushed Blessings,
~Gabrielle |
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• Jan. 18, 2009 - Hello!
Well I'm sure all of that scrubbing payed off, as there is nothing like a set a clean cabinets :-)
I feel you pain regarding the dish hands, though! I am the dishwasher in my household as well, and in the summer time I don't mind much.. but the cold winter air (BRR!) is something else. I hope to hear from you soon... and I hope that you get this comment.
Toodles~<3