Spring Cleaning

It makes me sad that the only motivation I have to clean my house is when I know someone's coming over. 

My uncle from Alaska is coming to town & is probably only staying one night but nonetheless I've been cleaning for two days now. Granted I haven't cleaned since it was 2008 (I know, gross!) but with all the sweat equity I've put out in the last two days, I feel pretty confident I can safely eat on any surface in any part of my house at this point. 

Did you know walls get dusty?! 

Thanks to my self-prescribed ADHD, staying with one cleaning project at a time is pretty hard. 

Example: I was scrubbing off the spray-on-caulk (don't ask) from the guest bathtub when I decided to rinse off the washcloth. Since I'm not that well-educated in the proper order of items to clean (ie top to bottom) and had already cleaned the bathroom sink to a sparkly spotfree shine, I decided to use the kitchen sink. On my way back to the bathroom, however, I glanced at the backdoor to be horrified at how gross the doggie door was. While sweating up a storm on all fours, I noticed some spots on the door so I wiped at those and when it came off, decided there was more wipe-able grossness that needed to come off. Needless to say, the backdoor (both sides), the doggie door flap (both sides), frame of the door and the baseboards leading into the kitchen are now spotless! Thank goodness for toothbrushes being able to get into those cracks & corners! I finally made it back to the bathroom and am quite happy with it's clean, fresh result! 

If anyone uses that bathroom before the guests arrive, I'll freak!