When we first moved in we worked to get the basics cleaned in this house, quick top to bottom to make it livable for us. While I was cleaning the kitchen I took down one of the curtain rods to clean try and at least dust the top of the curtain. The curtain was stuck to the rod. Now these aren’t full length curtains, they are just decorative that cover the tops of the windows, so when I thought they couldn’t move I honestly believed that they were glued.
I even told people about this.
Well yesterday I was cleaning some curtains and decided to figure out if I could do anything with those “glued on” curtains, since it was hard to get them clean in the state they were in.
I climbed on a chair and took down the first curtain rod, I started pulling on the curtain, and to my surprise it began to come loose. So I continued to pull on it and eventually got it off the rod, I touched the rod and it was mildly sticky, not glue sticky, but “hasn’t been cleaned and is damp in the kitchen sticky”
MY CURTAINS WERE STUCK TO THE ROD WITH FUNK.
I felt like an idiot. Don’t get my wrong, I keep a pretty clean house, it’s just those spaces that no one noticed that can get weird in every house. The “funk” on these rods was mostly invisible except for a bit of dust.
So I was able to get all the curtains off the rods (the one above the stove was especially difficult… yuck yuck yuck). And I could finally wash and bleach them! Yay! So I finished that up this morning and got them all nicely hung again. It feels good.
So I was glowing after that wonderful homemaking task, and I heard that I actually have some real work in the office tomorrow. Yay! I get to go into work!
This weekend we’re going to try and get the painting in our bedroom done. We really want to do that before our friend’s party next weekend, and before our LAN party that we’re planning for “sometimg in mid June” so the options for weekends is pretty slim. The irc server needs to be upgraded as well, we’re adding another server to test for stability for a couple weeks, and considering retiring a server that has been causing even more problems lately.
That’s it for now, I need to go make some dinner.