Oh, yeah, I had forgotten, it’s that time of the month again!!!! How is it that some women suffer from that cleaning frenzy!? Not that I am complaining!!!! It’s actually nice to feel good about house-cleaning shores!!!! But why does PMS prompt this need to sort, organize and clean!??? We know that PMS symptoms include irritability, mood swings, lethargy, food cravings (tell me about it!!!), weepiness (i cried watching the bold & the beautiful today - please don't judge me!!!) and anxiety, only to name a few. But really, how does cleaning fit into the equation? Do our hormones decide that since we can’t easily cleanse our body, we might as well make the best of our surroundings and clean until we drop (or get on someone else’s nerves!!!)? Living alone and suffering from cleaning frenzy is one thing but doing so when there are loved ones living in the same house is… quite the experience. I remember my mom suffering from the same condition but not only did she clean, she actually expected all the family to feel the same!!!! “Euh, no… there’s no way I am washing the floors with a toothbrush!” or so I thought…
[Strange how, with time and retrospect, we tend to become like our parents, unwillingly. Ce sont les forces de la nature humaine je suppose. Thankfully, we learn from them just as much as we do from the world around us. I look at friend I used to know… she rarely spoke of her mother but when she did I could feel her clinging on to something her mother will never be able to give her. And I now realise that she has become like her mother, in a very twisted way.]
Too bad I didn’t get any grading done today BUT I did get to cook my spaghetti sauce and bake some “crème caramel”. Productive day indeed. I might as well enjoy it because tomorrow is another day and I feel lethargy might take over at some point!
Ally L.