Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Got junk?

I'm having a hard time cleaning my place up. It's become so messy I find it difficult to live here but cleaning up seems such an overwhelming and tedious job that I've been postponing it for weeks. I'm watching Hoarders which really helps me get up and get going. I tackle one little task at a time and keep sitting down to rest and divert my thoughts every couple of minutes, which seems a good strategy. From lack of sleep and rest during over half a year of working two jobs I'm simply too physically tired to accomplish much in one or two days but I'm making a slow progress.

It helps that the fleas seem to be largely gone ever since I sprayed the cats with medication (Frontline, a single dose for large dogs divided into four doses of 0.7 mililiters for each of my little possums, as I sometimes call them) two weeks ago. Before that, there were so many fleas I couldn't really enter the cats' room to clean it because several fleas would instantly jump on each of my legs. But once the cats became, so to say, poisonous to them, the fleas seem to have died. Of hunger, I guess. Although I was afraid they'd move on to me to feed on, it didn't happen. Today I managed to wash a part of the floor in the cats' room under their toilets, and, surprisingly, didn't see a single flea in the process. And I haven't even used the spray I ordered from the vet to treat the floors.

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