Revenge of the Killer Dust Bunnies

I'm not the cleanest person in the world, but I tell you...I have never seen dust bunnies like the ones that grow to amazing sizes and reproduce at an alarming rate in this apartment! The amount of dirt that collects in my apartment in a very short period of time is nothing short of incredible.

The craziness that is spring has begun (even if the weather that is spring has not yet). I leave on Sunday for Budapest for a 3-day ESL workshop and return the following Friday with a houseguest. A colleague from Slovakia will be spending a couple of weeks here, leading our March teacher training sessions around Romania and Moldova. She'll spend the first couple of days here with me, so I decided that evenings this week would be dedicated to a good spring cleaning.

Which for me means moving furniture. I get bored with the look of my apartment and feel the need to completely rearrange furniture every 3 months or so. I started with the bedroom since it really hadn't had a deep cleaning in a while. Can you say "disgusting"? I moved the bed...the first mistake, I suppose. Since my air is so hot and dry during the winter, the window is always open. And since the bed was on an angle in front of the windows (which are in the corner), I haven't cleaned behind the bed/under the windows in a really long time. Like since I moved the bed there...last summer, I think.

Apparently all of the stray dust from the street had settled on the floor behind my bed. Well, almost all of it. The rest of it was coating the plastic storage boxes under the bed. Seriously, who has to clean the tops of their storage boxes? If they were stored in a garage or basement, I would understand. But this is my house! Where does all the dirt come from?

Next step in the process (I won't bore you with too many details...suffice it to say, I conquer the record-sized dust bunnies in the bedroom and moved on) - washing curtains. I had done the ones in the bedrooms not long ago since they are white and easily show dirt. The ones in the living room and kitchen, however, are navy blue. They really don't show dirt at all. Nonetheless, I figured that a good spring cleaning meant washing curtains whether they needed it or not. Whether they needed it or not really wasn't the question...everything in this apartment needs washing. They just don't show it. Until you put them in a washing machine full of water. Which swiftly becomes mud. I probably should have washed them again, but couldn't justify the extra water/electricity.

The living room gets cleaned relatively often, so it was more a matter of dusting. And moving furniture, of course. After two years, I think I've exhausted the options in this room. But that's okay...it hasn't been like this for at least a year.

And since crazy spring is here, it can stay this way for a while. I won't be home enough to get tired of it :) Or to stop the revenge of the killer dust bunnies from recurring. Oh well, that battle can wait for another month!