How Not To Clean The Kitchen Floor

So today turned into a cleaning day and not a packing day. Oops. No big deal, still got a couple of days left. But I did learn a very important lesson today — how not to clean your kitchen floor. Here's the process:

Step 1: Wash half the dishes in the sink.

Step 2: Put the other half the dishes in the sink to soak.

Step 3: Turn on tap full steam on hot to fill the sink.

Step 4: Go check e-mail while sink is filling.

Step 5: Notice an e-mail from your blog-hosting website.

Step 6: Click on the link to your blog.

Step 7: Decide to write your first post.

Step 8: Write your first post on the wrong page, copy it to the correct page.

Step 9: Attempt to put a link in to the China trip school's website so that people can check it.

Step 10: Become frustrated when initial attempt to insert link does not work.

Step 11 (this is a crucial one): Spend 5 minutes figuring out how to insert a link.

Step 12: Feel very pleased with the progress you made.

Step 13: Realize you're thirsty, walk into kitchen to get a glass of water.

Step 14: Discover that you've created the 6th Great Lake on your kitchen floor, Lake Overflow.

Step 15: Apologize to the 1st floor neighbor who comes knocking at your door because there is water pouring through his ceiling.

Step 16: Get a bunch of towels out of the closet and drain the lake.

Voila. The kitchen floor is cleaned.

I would not personally recommend this method for cleaning your kitchen floor for four reasons. One, it is not highly effective. There are still parts of my kitchen floor that are dirty. You tend to get a little lost in the lake draining process and focus less on the cleaning aspect. Two, if you own your house, causing water damage is not generally a good thing. Even if you don't own your house, it's generally not a good thing. Someone owns the house. Three. It's a little inefficient, especially if you have plans to be somewhere. Four, if water happens to leak into the cabinet under the sink, then you have to empty the cabinet to let everything dry out. Not fun.

Packing is a bitch

And I haven't even started packing yet. Trying to get the apartment clean before I leave, and that has been taking all day. World Cup "breaks" haven't helped the cause any. And it's hot. Time to motivate.