Hello fellow readers! (I have readers? Outside of the people in my head, that is?)
The last couple of days I've been in a major cleaning spree. It all began about a month ago when I moved my bed. (Funny how some things can escalate!)
Since then I have de-cluttered a lot, A LOT! My closet has ample space once more. My desk is not a mess anymore. I can tell you where everything is located with eyes closed. It's almost a miracle!
As I was saying, the last couple of days I have been cleaning everything (and that means EVERYTHING) re-organizing a lot and it's all without much effort. I actually like it! It feels so good.
I re-organized the kitchen drawers and cupboards (still need to do the pantry and fridge though), cleaned the iron and its water deposit with vinegar (will become relevant later), cleaned the washing machine's filter and drum, re-folded and re-organized the bathroom towels, spent almost an entire afternoon cleaning my computer's keyboard (I used to think I needed to buy a new one but in reality I had never cleaned it before... you won't believe how much dirt it had on!) and probably a few more things I don't remember right now.
Today though, disaster stroke. Well, not really a disaster but I can't help feeding my drama queen personality every now and then! When I was cleaning the iron some of the water had dripped on the kitchen floor (water mixed 1-1 with vinegar that is) and last night I realized there was a stain on the floor. Thinking it was a hard water stain I poured more vinegar on it and let it soak. Little did I know at the time that it was exactly vinegar that had caused it in the first place...
Yeah, I didn't mention that it's a marble floor, did I? Apparently vinegar damages marble and it's not just a stain by the way, it's an etching which is kinda worse. So, yeah, I fucked it up worse with that.
That really bummed me out, and then my brother called to ask me if I could return an mp3 player he had given me like, 5 years ago (could be even more now that I think of it... it was a 128MB player, go figure!) and I don't have that thing anymore! I'm not even sure what I did with it, I might have already returned it and we both forgot it or there's a huge possibility that I threw it away (well, recycled it is more likely) after I got a phone with 8GB storage for mp3s (which happened over 3 years ago) so yeah... There's nothing to return here! I felt bad about it of course, no matter if it's not something expensive nowadays.
Anyway, after mopping (the floor) and moping for a couple of hours I kinda cheered up. About the mp3 thingy, there's nothing I can do anymore, if it's gone it's gone. I can offer to get him a new one, so that's one thing. No need to mope about that, right? And the floor... Well, I'll see if I can make it any better (found something online about using baking soda to somehow fix it, so I'm trying that for now) and if I can't I'll get an expert to fix it eventually, when I can afford it. But even so, it's not something to cry about. Things get broken, damaged or lost but if we're still here, alive and healthy, then I guess it's never too bad. I can live with an ugly spot on my kitchen floor for a while. Maybe I'll even give it a name and make friends with it, then it might even seem somehow beautiful. (I'm getting really deep here baby!)
The moral of this story? (Besides "don't use things on other things unless you're sure they won't react badly" and "always do the research FIRST") Everyone fucks up once in a while. If you can go for very long periods of your life without any mistakes then kudos to you! But if you do fuck up now and then, it's not a reason to break down or anything. Everyone and I mean E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E does. As long as no lives are lost, it's not so bad. Either it can be fixed, so you fix it, or it can't so you move on. Isn't that a great way of thinking? (Hint: if it comes from me it's obviously great!)
And that's how I want to look at this incident today, not as a mistake that destroyed my last days streak of achievements but as something that further validates those achievements. I did good on so many things these last days that eventually it was almost natural for one thing to go wrong. But if I saw it as a sign that it's all futile and meaningless cause things can always go wrong I'd have lost the battle. No, I'd have lost the whole war then. I choose to see it as a lesson, to further remind me that although I might be good at some things, I still have lots to learn in order to be more efficient in the future without repeating the same mistakes. Sometimes a small mistake now can prevent much bigger ones in the future.
And I'll close with a character song from one my new favourite anime series, Working!!, which also inspired the post's title.
This is not so bad from Hiroshi Kamiya, I have no idea what the lyrics say as I don't know japanese (yet!) but I like the song and it feels very positive anyway so I have a good feeling it relates. :)
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| Just pretend you didn't read that part... ALL OF YOU! |
The last couple of days I've been in a major cleaning spree. It all began about a month ago when I moved my bed. (Funny how some things can escalate!)
Since then I have de-cluttered a lot, A LOT! My closet has ample space once more. My desk is not a mess anymore. I can tell you where everything is located with eyes closed. It's almost a miracle!
As I was saying, the last couple of days I have been cleaning everything (and that means EVERYTHING) re-organizing a lot and it's all without much effort. I actually like it! It feels so good.
I re-organized the kitchen drawers and cupboards (still need to do the pantry and fridge though), cleaned the iron and its water deposit with vinegar (will become relevant later), cleaned the washing machine's filter and drum, re-folded and re-organized the bathroom towels, spent almost an entire afternoon cleaning my computer's keyboard (I used to think I needed to buy a new one but in reality I had never cleaned it before... you won't believe how much dirt it had on!) and probably a few more things I don't remember right now.
Today though, disaster stroke. Well, not really a disaster but I can't help feeding my drama queen personality every now and then! When I was cleaning the iron some of the water had dripped on the kitchen floor (water mixed 1-1 with vinegar that is) and last night I realized there was a stain on the floor. Thinking it was a hard water stain I poured more vinegar on it and let it soak. Little did I know at the time that it was exactly vinegar that had caused it in the first place...
Yeah, I didn't mention that it's a marble floor, did I? Apparently vinegar damages marble and it's not just a stain by the way, it's an etching which is kinda worse. So, yeah, I fucked it up worse with that.
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| Nothing compared to that of course. |
That really bummed me out, and then my brother called to ask me if I could return an mp3 player he had given me like, 5 years ago (could be even more now that I think of it... it was a 128MB player, go figure!) and I don't have that thing anymore! I'm not even sure what I did with it, I might have already returned it and we both forgot it or there's a huge possibility that I threw it away (well, recycled it is more likely) after I got a phone with 8GB storage for mp3s (which happened over 3 years ago) so yeah... There's nothing to return here! I felt bad about it of course, no matter if it's not something expensive nowadays.
Anyway, after mopping (the floor) and moping for a couple of hours I kinda cheered up. About the mp3 thingy, there's nothing I can do anymore, if it's gone it's gone. I can offer to get him a new one, so that's one thing. No need to mope about that, right? And the floor... Well, I'll see if I can make it any better (found something online about using baking soda to somehow fix it, so I'm trying that for now) and if I can't I'll get an expert to fix it eventually, when I can afford it. But even so, it's not something to cry about. Things get broken, damaged or lost but if we're still here, alive and healthy, then I guess it's never too bad. I can live with an ugly spot on my kitchen floor for a while. Maybe I'll even give it a name and make friends with it, then it might even seem somehow beautiful. (I'm getting really deep here baby!)
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| Err... No, that wasn't an innuendo! |
The moral of this story? (Besides "don't use things on other things unless you're sure they won't react badly" and "always do the research FIRST") Everyone fucks up once in a while. If you can go for very long periods of your life without any mistakes then kudos to you! But if you do fuck up now and then, it's not a reason to break down or anything. Everyone and I mean E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E does. As long as no lives are lost, it's not so bad. Either it can be fixed, so you fix it, or it can't so you move on. Isn't that a great way of thinking? (Hint: if it comes from me it's obviously great!)
And that's how I want to look at this incident today, not as a mistake that destroyed my last days streak of achievements but as something that further validates those achievements. I did good on so many things these last days that eventually it was almost natural for one thing to go wrong. But if I saw it as a sign that it's all futile and meaningless cause things can always go wrong I'd have lost the battle. No, I'd have lost the whole war then. I choose to see it as a lesson, to further remind me that although I might be good at some things, I still have lots to learn in order to be more efficient in the future without repeating the same mistakes. Sometimes a small mistake now can prevent much bigger ones in the future.
And I'll close with a character song from one my new favourite anime series, Working!!, which also inspired the post's title.
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| It all seems so normal. It isn't. |
This is not so bad from Hiroshi Kamiya, I have no idea what the lyrics say as I don't know japanese (yet!) but I like the song and it feels very positive anyway so I have a good feeling it relates. :)
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