Cleanin' Up with the Friday Five

1. What housekeeping chore(s) do you hate doing the most? Cleaning the bathtub. We have incredibly hard water here, and it takes insane amounts of elbow grease to get the stains out. I hate doing it so much that I usually end up leaving it until even I, no neat freak by any stretch of the imagination, am too disgusted to be entirely comfortable about the idea of bathing in it. Then I scrub it just enough to trip the disgust trigger back to "off" again. Cleaning toilets is no fun, either, but at least it doesn't take long to do and you don't have to worry about them being clean enough to bathe in afterward.

2. Are there any that you like or don't mind doing? I kind of like doing laundry. I don't know why. And I don't mind doing the dishes, because it gives me a good excuse to listen to music. My brain works in such a way that I simply cannot play the stereo when I'm trying to think, but it makes a great accompaniment to mindless physical tasks. I sometimes think that if it weren't for needing something to do while I listen to music, I'd never get any housework done at all.

3. Do you have a routine throughout the week or just clean as it's needed? I have nothing remotely resembling a routine, though I don't know that I could be accurately said to clean as it's needed, either.

4. Do you have any odd cleaning/housekeeping quirks or rules? Um... I suspect most people would consider everything about my housekeeping to be a bit quirky.

5. What was the last thing you cleaned? I cleaned a bunch of junk off the kitchen table earlier today. There's still a huge pile of bank statements and receipts and bill stubs and such sitting there, but at least they are in a pile now. And you can actually see most of the surface of the table, so that's a big improvement.