Cleaning

So after grocery shopping this afternoon, I decided to do a bit around the house. This decision was made after we found bugs in our pantry.

When Peter and I grocery shop we have a bit of a method. We each put in $100 a fortnight, and do 1 big shop. If we find stuff on sale we will usually stock up. Last shop we found the pasta sheets for lazanga. It was one of the named brands, and was exceptionally cheap. So we brought a few boxes.

Now living here, I have come to the conclusion that anything opened needs to be in a container. I spent a LOT of monry buying containers for everything, just so we could keep the ants out of the kitchen.

Because the lazanga sheets hadnt been opened I thought nothing of them. They were in a hard plasticy box, and I just assummed they would be ok.

Wrong!

When putting our new grocerys away today I found these little black speck-like things on the back wall of our pantry. Now we dont actually have a full pantry..

(Before our microwave went in)

We have lots and lots of cupboards. So we have cupboard for baking, one for lunch food, one for cans and another for pasta/bread/cereals ect. It was this last cuboard that we were having the problems with.

We found out that these bug things (Peter thinks they were weevels) were living in our un-opened boxs of pasta. We opened the box up, and they had nibbled holes through all 10 sheets. Annoying!

So I have spent the afternoon clearing, spraying and washing out our pantry. It was such a huge job, as I had to check all our food was ok.. and then throw out quite a bit of it. Luckily I found them before they had the chance to eat all our new food!

After this I decided to tackle our bathroom. Now I get a lot of crap about being lazy. I dont do much of the day to day jobs around the house, but this is usually becuase i put in 12hr days just getting to work. I am exausted!

The bathroom... It was a huge mess! I dont think that Peter even really realises how much extra effort I put into cleaning.. Properly!

The shower has pink mould on it, and there was dust everywhere. I managed to do most of it pretty quickly, except for the toilet. Dam that was a mess. SOMEONE (*cough* not me *cough*) has bad aim, and the toilet was a dusgusting mess. It looks ok on the surface, but when you take it apart, there is stickness everywhere! down the side of the bowl, floor, and even under the seat!

I may not clean as often as I should, but seriously.. when I do, I clean a lot more and throughly then he does. Men! they just never realise the effort that women actually go to.

And to top it off... While I was cleaning I asked Peter to do tea. all this involved was putting the meal I had already made into the oven, ad putting it on bake.

His reply? "which setting is bake again?"

Somebody save me!