Domestic goddess, well at least for today.

I never thought in a million years that I would be excited about finally getting a steam mop! But, there I was this morning grinning ear to ear as I waited in line and paid for my brand new steam mop!
In the car on the way home I was humming to an 80's song that I love "Freeze Frame" and thinking how much easier cleaning the floors today is going to be!
J. Geils Band - Freeze Frame
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  I've wanted a steam mop/floor care system for a while. I hate to use chemicals on the floors especially with 2 pugs walking on them, picking their toys up off the floor, sleeping, eating dropped dog food off the floors that I cleaned with chemicals.
The instructions to put the mop together were really easy. When it was all ready I filled the tank up and plugged it in. Steam arose from the bottom pad like smoke coming out of a dragon's mouth. With a couple of pumps of the handle, I was ready to start.
Once I started, gone were the dingey marks left by slightly muddy paw prints, also gone were the scuff marks from my hiking boots, also just general dirt from being a high traffic area. My kitchen tile was spotless!
The rest of our house has hardwood floors, which also had some areas marked by paw prints, all now look shiny and new!
The mop made floor cleaning much easier, and I do feel like a "domestic goddess"! A domestic goddess that kept singing "Freeze Frame" in her head the whole time, but a goddess nontheless!
Now if I can only get a robot that dusts and does laundry I'd be set!

Junk

I spent part of the day today cleaning and "reorganizing" some drawers. It is absolutely amazing how much "junk" one can find! In one particular drawer I found a clear plastic ruler from who knows where, a very used black calculator that I don't remember ever buying(my husband told me he used the calculator in college back in 1992). The calculator and ruler are now in the trash. I have no idea how pen caps without pens ended up there (I think maybe one pen cap got in there and multiplied itself!) Also, how did one baseball card make it out of my husband's boxed baseball card collection (which is located in the basement)and into my upstairs drawer? Hmmm.. After a few old receipts were trashed and some wayward pennies were rounded up and put in my little kitchen bank, I was done! I felt a small since of accomplishment, but was still amazed at how much "junk" one drawer can accumulate! Well, one drawer conquered and 5 more to go!