Cleaner (584 hits)
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Submitted by ninja fuck (View user info) at 2008-06-15 18:33:24 EDT
I woke up today and made my list.
I make a list every day.
Every day.
22 years of lists and agendas.
I feel like I'm repeating myself already.
It's what happens when I think about my lists sometimes. I'm so sorry.
I map it out, every thing I need done, I write it down, I need to make sure everything gets done. It's not like the end of the world if I forget to pick up cupcakes and m&m's, right? It just needs to get done.
There are certain things on my list every day.
I clean. I mean, I vacuum, sweep, wash all the windows, clean the stove (after I'm done cooking, it's not compulsive, right?), wash the refrigerator, organize the kids' toys, and bathrooms, you understand? The basics, the basic things that need done daily. Daily. Don't forget. They need to be done. Daily.
I stay up sometimes at night thinking about what I have to do the next day. It comes as second nature now. The lists, the cleaning, the organizing, the store trips, the kids. But I don't want to forget. What if it slips tomorrow? What happens if my second nature fails me? What then? I can't forget. It's my job as a mother to not forget anything.
I hope I'm a good mom. I think that's something most young mothers worry about. That's why I have to make my lists. Why I have to not forget. Why I make my lists.
Yesterday was good. It could've been better. I left a few streaks in the bathroom window up in the right hand corner. I'm not a bad mom. They got fed. They are safe. They are clean. I hope they are happy. Yesterday was good; but I had an accident last night after the kids went to bed. My eye is bruised and swollen shut and it's excruciating. I think there's some shiny wet stuff fallin out of it. It makes it so much harder to clean. The pain ebbs when I think of how much better I can do tomorrow, though. I can't take advil or Tylenol, though, that's a luxury. One I haven't proven to deserve.
I'm almost done cleaning today. But it never really ends. It's okay. I need to keep busy. What else would I do? Eat bon bons and watch soap operas? Absurd. The splatters on the walls in the dining room won't wash themselves. Have to clean them before the kids see. Have to wipe down our wedding picture. I accidentally left some of my skin stuck to it. I must have fallen or something. No one's asking, I'm not telling. I wonder what it'd be like to have girlfriends. I know some people have them. Wonder what they're husbands are like, why they just let them run around like floozies?
The kids are outside playing in the sprinkler and I've got the A/C off to save some money. I want to buy a new shirt in a few months. It will be worth it. I ripped my new one last night. It's just a tattered lump of ... I wish I wasn't so stupid. I could have nicer things.
Hear the summer sounds; the traffic, the kids yelling and laughing. The camaraderie between neighbors; smell the food on grills and plastic grocery bags crinkle. I smile without realizing it until it fades. I hear the F-250 and picture the meticulously clean maroon paint, the tires rolling over the street with ease, no worries or cleaning for them and I am jealous. Jealous of the black 2008 Caddy in the driveway I've never driven. With its leather seats and heated mirrors and no obligations. The engine turns off and after a tit I hear Josh step out.
It's been another day just like the rest. All my life I've been training for this. Josh always said I was such a good little girl. I hope he's pleased today.
I hope I did good enough today.
User Reviews
Submitted by Mr_Trollope (user info) at 2008-06-16 12:13:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
I am unsure of your name........ninjafuck, hmmm seems awfully crass
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2008-06-16 12:09:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by tatersninja (user info) at 2008-06-16 11:36:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
How is this obvious?
Pandora and that other idiot didn't get it!
Damnit, I hate when people who can think read my stuff!
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That's a pretty uptight thing to say, especially from some noob.
Submitted by tatersninja (user info) at 2008-06-16 11:36:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
How is this obvious?
Pandora and that other idiot didn't get it!
Damnit, I hate when people who can think read my stuff!
Submitted by tloshjohnson (user info) at 2008-06-16 08:38:22 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
For Genko.
Submitted by AlwaysAnEagle (user info) at 2008-06-16 08:36:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Decent writing, little obvious, better than poop jokes, high five.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2008-06-16 06:57:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
http://www.ubersite.com/m/117217
Submitted by sexualchocolate1984 (user info) at 2008-06-16 06:55:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Submitted by Genko (user info) at 2008-06-16 00:10:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Linus (user info) at 2008-06-15 20:21:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Don't get it.
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Then maybe you should shut the hell up. Little fucking shits like you were the reason I hated college. Always fucking holding up the class whining about how you don't "get it". This isn't college, kid, this is the real world, and if you don't "get" this post, (not that there's a whole lot to "get") then it means you're a worthless sack of skin who needs to learn how to shut the fuck up while intelligent people are talking.
I'll give you a free piece of advice. The world is run by people who get it. Those people generally get it more than everybody else, but when they don't, they don't broadcast their ignorance to the world like some spoiled fatass rich kid who expects everything to be fucking handed to him. Don't get it? Sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up until you do.
Fuck you
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I enjoyed this response a whole lot more than your shitty post.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-06-16 04:11:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Your fiction makes better reading than your non-fiction, for whatever that's worth.
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2008-06-16 01:46:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Whoa, Genko went on a rampage there.
Submitted by TheBrad (user info) at 2008-06-16 01:41:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
What do you say to a woman with two black eyes? Nothing, you already told the bitch twice!
Submitted by Chroniclysm (user info) at 2008-06-16 01:40:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by beer-turtle (user info) at 2008-06-16 00:55:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Aye is for pirates
Eh is for canadia
Submitted by tatersninja (user info) at 2008-06-16 00:30:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
~) Can I +2 my own post?? Fuck it.
~) Not quite what the allusion was, Pandora. But thank you for that insight into your psyche.
~) Genko; thanks, that's what I was thinking but too exhausted to type. I deal with enough of these incompetent assholes in my everyday life. They are abundant, so much for natural selection and evolution, aye?
~) I'm not from Canadia, I just love saying, "Aye," aye.
Submitted by Genko (user info) at 2008-06-16 00:10:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Linus (user info) at 2008-06-15 20:21:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Don't get it.
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Then maybe you should shut the hell up. Little fucking shits like you were the reason I hated college. Always fucking holding up the class whining about how you don't "get it". This isn't college, kid, this is the real world, and if you don't "get" this post, (not that there's a whole lot to "get") then it means you're a worthless sack of skin who needs to learn how to shut the fuck up while intelligent people are talking.
I'll give you a free piece of advice. The world is run by people who get it. Those people generally get it more than everybody else, but when they don't, they don't broadcast their ignorance to the world like some spoiled fatass rich kid who expects everything to be fucking handed to him. Don't get it? Sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up until you do.
Fuck you.
Submitted by pandora (user info) at 2008-06-15 23:25:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
It sounds like they're into that hot, sexy role-playing where she calls him "Daddy" and he bends her over and beats her ass for dropping a fork. I love that.
Submitted by Linus (user info) at 2008-06-15 20:21:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Don't get it.
Submitted by Ballare (user info) at 2008-06-15 19:51:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Genko (user info) at 2008-06-15 19:12:37 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Chroniclysm (user info) at 2008-06-15 18:46:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
U fucking ber