OCD rearing its head again!

been sick for a couple of days, and couldn’t muster the energy to do anything much.  feels sucky to always be lying down or sleeping simply because breathing’s such a labor cos’ of the phlegm…..so i did something simple around the house – cleaning!

I find it super therapeutic cos’ I get to see the effects with pretty much little effort….well sometimes a lot of elbow grease, but effects are fast!

okay, this list is gonna be boring (so skip it if you must), but I must list them to make me feel less guilty about the inordinate amount of time i spent lying down like a worm while my body tries to recover from the darn flu!

• did some of my filing (which i haven’t touched for a good year or so! still got more, but at least half of it is done!),
• tidied some paper work (which was at one point strewn all over my table top and any available space i could simply chunk them at) and tidied my room in general
• cleaned my cupboards and drawers,
• washed and polished my basins and cleaned the mirror,
• washed my stinky floor mats,
• washed my smelly cats butts cos’ they didn’t finish their business cleanly!!
• put up a hook in my toilet (so that I can hang some clothes and reuse w/o it crumbled…but still many pieces remain on my sink top and chair)
• wiped my ceiling fans,
• cleaned off the rust off my fork (which has been there for ages, and try as i might – couldn’t get it off – until i googled and it said VINEGAR! Works!!!! and a lot less elbow grease! but huh…there seems to be a mark where the knife was soaking in….)
• and blah blah blah… which includes vacuuming the floor several times….

obviously the above were done over a few days!  much as I wished i had the strength to finish everything within the same day! but i’m no super woman!

hook for my clothes! hanging nicely in the toilet so that my clothes don't get crumpled from being stacked on top of each other!

but i also get bored REALLY easily….so yesterday headed to orchard, and got myself….a nice table lamp!:)

energy saving lamp - looks cute too!:) sorry about the blurry photo!

looks nice and cheerful huh!:) and it’s energy saving with a 18W bulb, and when i get bored of my working area (which is what is preventing me from doing more work!), i switch the lamp on, and VOILA!  a different environment – more warm and cosy – to work in. keeee…..yeah, i’m nuts like that. (when i was young –  i used to get superbly distracted by the state of the room i was studying in….i think i am very much affected by my surroundings, so i try to keep them clean and tidy as much as possible – to prevent myself from being distracted!)

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plus..instead of my ceiling lights which work at a combined 72W, i’m saving the earth by using the night energy saving lamp.  thing though is that it can get kindda glaring since it’s in eye-sight, so I use a piece of scrap book paper to block the glare.

nice warm and cosy.....

alright….enough of obsessing over my home….now gotta go think of how to make my chocolate passionfruit cake without it collapsing!! childhood friend (gosh! ~ 20 years!) wants to get that for her dad, and the last time, the whole thing fell apart while experimenting!!

okay, charmaine tan, focus!  thinking about tidying the kitchen and the drawers and the shelves can come later!!

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