Yesterday I came home from university and felt like I needed to do something practical, after a week of lectures about the state of the world’s ecosystems and the climate system and everything else that’s essential for our life here on Earth (really crappy, the state of everything, apparently – not that I didn’t know before, it’s just depressing to hear it so bluntly put several days in a row in slightly different ways). I needed to do something useful. So I decided to start cleaning the bathroom.
And once I started, there were so many other things I could do. Half way through the bathroom cleaning, I went outside to shake out the rugs – it’s incredible how much dust there can be in a rug. And while I was doing the bathroom rugs, I thought I might as well do the other rugs.
And my bed cover quilt.
Back in the bathroom, while cleaning the toilet, Lina walked by and maybe she felt bad for letting me clean all by myself, because she asked me if I wanted some wine.
And seriously, guys. Wine and bathroom cleaning turned out to be such a hit that I honestly can’t understand why I haven’t thought of it before. Crawling around on my knees, scrubbing away the dust from the pipes behind the toilet just became so much more fun when the room wasn’t completely level and the floor not really still. Lina stayed, sitting on the floor by the door and then Natalia arrived for our tv show night, got a glass of wine and joined Lina on the floor, keeping me constantly laughing in my yellow rubber gloves and apron, on my knees on the blue plastic floor.
Cleaning has never been as fun, and it’s been a long time since our bathroom was this clean.
Katja Malmborg 