My parents are out of the house for two weeks to visit my step fathers family, and on day one, I've already started working on the kitchen, I hate this kitchen my dudes, and it's so hard to keep onto of while looking after two others that are also battling depression of their own, it didn't get horrendous thankfully, it's definitely allot better than I thought it was gonna be, still not super impressed though. mom works days and when she comes home she's burnt out from dealing with her coworkers. (Some of you may know how offices can be, there is so much drama all the time what the hell) and step dad works nights, and he's a welder, so when he gets home he's already worn out from work, and trying to sleep during the day with a dog that's in love with him and just wants to cuddle. I get anxious trying to clean while everyone is sleeping so it's always been super small bursts of quiet cleaning, and it prevents me from doing the things I want to do without waking one or the other up, but today I finally got so much done, I've done two loads of dishes, washed two loads by hand (Tupperware and pots/pans, stuff that can't go in the dishwasher) and I have a load of laundry going right now and I'm making lunch, the hope is I can stay on top of it much easier when they come home and I won't be so stressed trying to make sure I don't wake one or the other up in the future.
It doesn't look like.much with all the counters still being cluttered but the unseen parts are I sorted all the drawers and cupboards, I took out and washed all the Tupperware by hand cause my little brother kept putting them in the dishwasher, and that shit just doesn't work properly. All the lids and plastics and cups and travel mugs have been sorted and paired up and put in a place that makes more sense, I'm throwing out appliances we lost part too, or broke, I'm putting away the ones that still work but we don't use to be given away at a later point in the future, I'm gonna wipe everything down once the dishes are finished and then I'm gonna work on cleaning out the fridge, I've managed to stay on top of making sure anything going bad in the fridge is removed before it gets too nasty, but that doesn't mean some shit haven't leaked 🫠 I think this was 2 or 3 hours of work, I'm making good progress and I know they'll appreciate the space when they come home, I'm hoping once it's done it'll encourage me to cook more cause I really, really miss cooking.
