Hausfrau

[changeling]

Urgh. Feel absolutely bushed. Have had a hellishly busy last few months, but lo! my course is over and I have my graduation ceremony next week, and a dinner with Steph's and my families this weekend. And, most brilliant of brilliant happenings, my new bed was delivered yesterday. This was originally my Christmas present, but my parents switched it to a graduation present in lieu of something more transportable to Queensland. It's very exciting - it brings the end to Steph's and my sleeping on the floor for the last three months; rather a big problem in a room as small as mine. We had to roll away our bed every morning in order to get out of the room.

In celebration, I went out and beat the living hell out of my two single-bed duvets, which I strung up on the line. I haven't done this ... oh, well, ever, so the clouds of fine off-white powder were many and large. It was disturbing and gross. The racquet I used got covered and I had to wipe it off with a tissue.

It struck me that there are so many details to keeping house that you never get taught at school - and why not, I'd like to ask - and if your parents aren't the perfect housekeepers, you may never learn them. Your only hope is to marry someone with greater housing smarts than your own ... I don't know. Why don't they teach us this stuff in home ec? It's just as important as how to make a traffic-light sandwich.

Hm. Want to start drawing this year's Christmas cards. I have some half-formed ideas for two or three, and if I want to get them done in time I need to send them before I leave for Queensland ... but on the other hand, I've been so absent from the online world this year that I don't suppose I'll really have anyone to send them to. My QLD relatives certainly wouldn't appreciate them.

Want my Livejournal icons back. Maybe if I last a good month or so of proper use I might buy them for myself again. Save up. I also want to redesign the whole thing. Maybe I'll see if I can bring the laptop to Queensland ... I don't know.

MIRRORMASK! We're going tonight. It's finally been released in Australia (I got an letter announcing it and telling me where I can catch it - too bad the cinema stated was in Sydney). I can't wait. I need to run - I want to have some vegan snacks prepared for the movie tonight. Mirrormask! EEEEEE!

Comments

[buhfly.livejournal.com]

I MISS MY BISCUIT.

Also, Mirrormask is delightful and I already have it saved on my Netflix queue for when it comes out on DVD next year.

[watersusurrus.livejournal.com]

*slides up*

pssst buhfly, can you email me. I something to ask you!

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I MISS YOU, TOO.

*nods* I liked it very much, although I should quite like to see it again.

[buhfly.livejournal.com]

I want to, too. Maybe it's playing in the Valley now. Before, I had to drive two hours to see it.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

That's a very long way to drive for a movie! EEP!

[jolly-oddness.livejournal.com]

Queensland? Huh? I have missed something, right?

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Just a holiday, to visit agéd relatives.

[jolly-oddness.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's lovely. Where abouts in the ol' sun baked state are they?

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Proserpine and Brisbane.

[jolly-oddness.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I've heard of Proserpine! Or maybe I just like the sound of the name.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

It's a sugar-cane town.
Proserpine is also the Roman name for Persephone.

[jolly-oddness.livejournal.com]

Oh, that might be it.

[celeloriel.livejournal.com]

Trust me. My mother has OCD and IS a perfect housekeeper, and there are still things I don't know. That's why the Donna Hay/Martha Stewart industry is so huge: there's so much practical knowledge you and I don't have. Most of the random housekeeping things I know how to do I've learned from books.

Congratulations on graduating, AND on the bed! Both must be very good for easing your stress level. :)

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

*nods* But you're better off than, say, a former friend of mine, whose mother doesn't know how to - and isn't interested in - keep her own house even approximating clean. You understand that housekeeping is important. When one grows up in a filthy house, one have differing standards about what is clean, and what is "acceptable". It's not only about what skills you learn, but also what attitudes you cultivate.

That's what I think, anyway.

[celeloriel.livejournal.com]

I definitely can see that. But part of being an adult, I'm finding, is picking my own standards/cultivating my own attitudes. Example: my mother washes her floors daily. I don't mean like mops - she doesn't own one - but hands and knees washes. She's gotten so good at it over the years she can do the entire first floor in half an hour. I vaccum a lot, but if I manage to wash once a month it's miraculous. It took YEARS for me to be okay with this emotionally, and I still feel weird and twitchy now and again about it. So I had to fall in a middle sort of a place. Maybe your friend, after s/he lived away from zir parents, is finding hir own groove, you know?

And I have NO idea why this stuff isn't taught in home ec. I don't know what a traffic light sandwich is, but I'd like to know more about caring for down comforters than sandwich-making, that's for sure. Or even how to embroider a simple running stitch.

[oh-contraire.livejournal.com]

So... where is Mirrormask showing??? I couldn't find it anywhere... *pout*

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Cinema Nova, in Carlton. Right by Melbourne University.

[muzaken.livejournal.com]

Are you moving up to QLD??? Or just going for a holiday?

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Hell no. Wild horses couldn't make me. 'Tis a holiday only. And it means we can't have Christmas in the Gardens! I am mucho disappointed.

[muzaken.livejournal.com]

haha - i know what you mean, it's a nice place for a holiday. I will be in Vietnam over Xmas anyway (visiting Mum) so I don't think Dad and my sister are going in!

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

That'll be awesome! You'll have to pass on our regards &c. Have fun!