I hate the phrase “lazy girl”, often used to describe a recipe or workout that takes less than 30 minutes. How is making cherry tomatoes, salmon, and cheese in the oven for LUNCH lazy? Using the oven before sundown? What am I, a farmer? (We don’t stan Alec Baldwinito over here, but we do love some 30 Rockefeller Plaza quotes). To me putting washed arugula into a tupperware is meal prep.
I’m not Nara Smith. I can’t spend 8 hours making toothpaste from scratch. I want my apartment to be as dust-free as possible and to eat healthier so I have energy. I unfortunately can’t eat junk food anymore, but this development has validated my eating like a gremlin in my teens and 20s; I did it while I could. If I have a sour patch kid now, I may end up in the emergency room.
I spend a lot of time cleaning just for the dust to reappear a day later, as if its on a timer set to drive me to my death. I hyperfixate and can lose 2 hours scrubbing 1 corner of the floor.
Solutions I’m trying (emphasis on trying):
Lint roller with a long handle to just get the dust that way, I feel guilty using the paper BUT THEN I REMEMBER I DON’T HAVE A PLANE CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT ENTIRELY MY FAULT. Overthinking and not being selfish 24/7 can make me feel annoyingly empathetic, like bish shut up use a lint roller!!!!!
How to clean your bathroom in 5 minutes. Fill a dish brush with dish soap & vinegar, use it to clean the tub/shower while you shower. The women who invented this??!! They are them, the granddaughters of the witches you could not burn!!!!!!!!
Imagine if I start saying stuff like that in earnest, “I am the granddaughter of the witch you could not burn”. Not only would I never say that, but it would be inaccurate because my family is not from Salem, Massachusetts.
I am interested in becoming a witch but I don’t have the follow-through or time management skills. I set timers to remind me to do things. If I don’t set 5 alarms, I go back to sleep and end up late. I get hyperfocused and lose track of time. On Sunday I set a timer for 15 minutes to clean and it took me 3+ hours. I tried to make it realistic, just clean the areas I get most anxious about in 15 minutes, but perfectionism kicked in, I couldn’t stay focused on 1 section of the apartment, and then my day was gone.
Some days I go 110% and then I’m so tired the next day, I give 30%, if anyone has tips on how to balance this, please let me know.
This feels like me, except the liquids are just all iced coffee.
I will literally stop everything to do the dishes, or randomly declutter a closet when I have a million other things to do 😩 So I can def relate. One thing that has helped is just focusing on one space that I have to use for the day, like my desk. So if my desk is clean, then I try to give myself permission to not worry about any other place in the apartment. Also, sometimes just getting out of the house to do work helps. Out of sight, out of mind 🫡