When Dishes Pile Up

For a while I have been noticing how messy and unliveable my apartment is becoming. Of course, there's no excuse for not cleaning up after myself, but sometimes, or rather, more often than not, washing a simple plate amounts to a little battle in my world. Okay, maybe not that bad, but resting is of absolute necessity. So I let things go by, procrastinate, do what I like, etc. You know how that goes. Then all of a sudden, when I have about 30 or so hours left before school starts, I start panicking. In other words, being as desperate as I am to have a clean apartment, and organized books and papers for a new semester, I'm faced with tons of cleaning, lots of dishes, loads and loads of laundry, and scattered books and papers. This battle seems a lot bigger than one single plate. Can I do this, "crawling like snail"?

Well, for starters, I don't have much of a choice; the show must go on, so I came up with an action plan. In fact, I'm in the middle of it right now. One plate at a time, one dish at a time, one folder at a time. It's easier said than done, but I think it is doable. I will find out soon enough. I'm going to do in little batches. It won't, hopefully, be that daunting. I just finished doing a small batch ofdishes. Wasn't all that bad, really... here's how I plan to do it. I'm writing this down, more for my sake than yours. :) Bear with me.

Small batch of dishes
Rest
Another small batch
Rest
Dry the two batches
Rest
Put away dishes
Rest
Clean the kitchen (it's a kitchenette, to be accurate)
Rest
Clean the dining table (This is not as simple as it sounds!)
Rest
Put laundry in laundry bag
Rest
Sweep the kitchen
Vacuum the dining area
Rest

AND NOW I SHOULD HAVE A CLEAN 0.5 APARTMENT

Then

Pick up garbage from the sleeping/studying area
Rest
Take books/papers to the dining table
Clean the dresser top
Rest
Clean the computer desk
Rest
Arrange bed
Take all papers from under the bed to the dining table (This might be a Herculean task!)
Rest Rest Rest
Clean other little things in the sleeping/studying area
Rest
Vacuum
Rest

NOW, THE BATHROOM!

Clean th bathtub
Rest
Arrange my countless toiletries
Rest
Mop the kitchen floor and bathroom floor
Rest

HMMMM GETTING CLOSE!

Spray air freshner
Listen to Enya

DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now, I reckon that it's not all that simple, but I can a least try. After all this is done, I will try to write my 2000 words, and then polish my syllabus for spring. Well, wish me luck! :)