The Cleaning Process - Part 2
0 Comments Posted by Nabeel K on Sunday, November 4, 2007 at 11:22 AM.
Sunday arrives, and you know you have no choice but to continue with the cleaning process. It's now or never, you tell yourself.
You realize that since the previous night, you have accumulated more garbage and you need to pack more stuff in those shopping bags. And things appear a bit different to you - what you didn't consider garbage before now looks like garbage. You end up packing three more shopping bags to dump down the garbage chute.
That is when you receive a shock - ever since you moved into your new room this semester (three months ago), you never tried to fit your clothes in the cupboard! You've been taking them right out of the laundry bag! No folding them up or ironing them and fitting them neatly into your cupboards. Now you have a laundry bag full of clothes recently washed; and that old one with clean clothes you didn't clear out since you did your laundry at the beginning of the semester.
Luckily, at this point your sister arrives to feed you and help you with the folding process. So you delve right into it.
A few 8-minute smoke breaks, a sheesha break and an ice-lemon-tea break later, you get back to the much-dreaded ironing part of the cleaning process.
Nine hours later, you're through with both your laundry bags, and you have ironed all your dress shirts - for the first time in at least a year! The trousers will have to see the steam of an iron another day.
You proceed to have your breakfast (you never slept but normal people have breakfast at the time, so you decide you must conform - a bit). Dirty dishes need cleaning too, but you have more important things to do, like classes. The cleaning process must continue some other time.
Save for a 'quick' 60 minute bath to wash all that coconut oil off your hair! (And that facial hair must go too - or the young girls in your class will go "Uh, tsk tsk.")
You realize that since the previous night, you have accumulated more garbage and you need to pack more stuff in those shopping bags. And things appear a bit different to you - what you didn't consider garbage before now looks like garbage. You end up packing three more shopping bags to dump down the garbage chute.
That is when you receive a shock - ever since you moved into your new room this semester (three months ago), you never tried to fit your clothes in the cupboard! You've been taking them right out of the laundry bag! No folding them up or ironing them and fitting them neatly into your cupboards. Now you have a laundry bag full of clothes recently washed; and that old one with clean clothes you didn't clear out since you did your laundry at the beginning of the semester.
Luckily, at this point your sister arrives to feed you and help you with the folding process. So you delve right into it.
A few 8-minute smoke breaks, a sheesha break and an ice-lemon-tea break later, you get back to the much-dreaded ironing part of the cleaning process.
Nine hours later, you're through with both your laundry bags, and you have ironed all your dress shirts - for the first time in at least a year! The trousers will have to see the steam of an iron another day.
You proceed to have your breakfast (you never slept but normal people have breakfast at the time, so you decide you must conform - a bit). Dirty dishes need cleaning too, but you have more important things to do, like classes. The cleaning process must continue some other time.
Save for a 'quick' 60 minute bath to wash all that coconut oil off your hair! (And that facial hair must go too - or the young girls in your class will go "Uh, tsk tsk.")
Labels: Cleaning, Garbage, Ironing, Sheesha Break, Smoke Break
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