Autistic-style Housework

I have a glass baking pan because I really don't want my food to be in contact with aluminum or Teflon, if I can avoid it. The problem is that I suck at dishes, and I've been trying to remove this brown baked-on grease, and it's just not happening. I don't want to toss an otherwise perfectly good Pyrex baking dish. Any ideas how to clean the blasted thing?

My hands smell bad. How often should I replace rubber gloves, or is there a method to keep them fresh? I use them to do dishes.

After working a series of eleven to twelve hours days, my brain was frazzled to the point where I accidentally left on a three day vacation without first emptying the trash. Plus, I didn't have much time to attend to house work during the week as it was. When I come home, there are dozens of dead flies, and still so many live ones it's insane. I've been chasing them with Hotshot Flying Insect Killer. Every time they land on me I'm very much in Sense Defense mode.

Other than chasing with a nice chemical spray, does anyone have advice to...

1.) kill the flies now that they're here
2.) keep this from recurring.

Thanks.

When I'm not feeling well, it's a struggle to get out of bed, not to mention actually changing the sheets and doing the laundry. I'm not feeling well a lot of the time, so you may be able to imagine the way my sheets look.

I've started doing them regularly, but I'm still left with grimy looking sheets. These are nice sheets so I won't be throwing them away, but I'd love to be able to get them a bit 'cleaner' looking. I don't know how much bleaching they can take, so I was wondering if anyone had any other ideas.

Liquid bluing, maybe?

I've been discussing housework with a couple of people recently, and they have commented on problems they have doing housework -- staying on task, not getting distracted, and things like that.

I don't normally have a problem staying on task, unless I get interrupted. Then all bets are off. However, my biggest problem is motivation. I don't like doing housework, so I don't do it, even if it needs to be done.

I have clinical depression, which generally saps my motivation to do just about anything, but I'm not depressed all the time. And my physical disabilities do make housework more difficult than it would be for a non-disabled person. But even when I was perfectly healthy, did not have asthma or fibromyalgia, I still didn't do housework.

Is there some sort of "housework gene" that I am missing that makes other people do housework even when they hate it?

   {relevant because low energy results in lazy home-keeping, and I would appriciate any form of input 
   from those who may or may not understand}

   My reality includes a seemingly random fluctuation of energy.

   For periods of time I have tons of it and eat well and sleep well.
   Durring these times I am also more alert, more complicated, more thorough. 
   I do not get sick, even in the presence of sick people.

   Durring other instances, also ranging from weeks to months as does the first, 
   I have low energy, severally decreased motivation, poor appetite, pain, soreness, sickness.
   
   I fail to see a definitive pattern, though it does seem seasonal at times.

   When I am "down"  I do not like it, at times I do not like myself at all for it.
   I make futile attempts at making it better but without the motivation and energy to really follow through...
   It doesn't get me out.

   Eventually I just find myself getting better again.

   When it begins to fall I resist it so many ways until everything comes crashing down all at once.
 
   I think of Bi-polar disorder, but this diagnosis suggests that it is a mental construct, caused by function of the mind.
   
   My experience suggests that the resulting mental complication is preceded by lowered production of vital
   elements  to good mental and physical health.
  
   I have theorized that the behavior is in result to a sensitivity of earthical energy.
   Like a pantimime of earths electrical behavior.
   Resulting from the particular energy signatures prevalent at the time of my initial development.
 
   Not delusion, just hypothetical possibility from a scientific and mathmatical viewpoint. 
   The body is a highly complicated machine with cause and effect. 

    What do you think?

   

         

I too have been cleaning and doing various housework like crazy for the last two weeks. 
I don't know why, but I too like it, like the results, like the purpose. 

I bought a new lawn mower, fixed a weed trimmer someone gave me over a year ago. I cleaned up trash around the house and yard for like 12 hours total, I edged the sidewalks, and transfered all the extra dirt, (something that haden't been done in years) I layed grass seed all over, fertilizer, I trimmed half of the 18 bushes so far, and cut alot of dead branches out of the trees. 

Yesterday i bought 100 dollars of cleaning supplies, including mops, scrubbers, spunges, cleaning agents, paper towels, mild fragrance dispersers. 

I don't know what has gotten into me, I've been so driven and motivated towards beautifying the home inside and out as though some great visitor were coming whom I wanted to impress, and certainly not have see me as lazy. 

I think I get this way at least once a year, but never on such a large scale. 

During the week I'm too busy with school to clean, but on the weekends, I've been working every spare moment to clean my room. I don't know why; I just see something that is not clean and I NEED to pick it up! I'm not normally like this, but I'm really enjoying the result: I've taken out a total of four bags of trash so far (from one room) and two bags of clothes to be stored/donated. I've also organized my clothes better and in the process of all this I've found a lot of stuff that I've been missing for ages.
Does this kind of thing happen to you guys ever?

I really need to get a refrigerator repair-person into my apartment because my fridge no longer keeps food from going bad. (Freezer works, but not fridge.) However, I'm afraid that either the building manager will come in with the repair person, therefore allowing her to see how bad my apartment is, or the repair person will tell the manager how bad it is, if the manager doesn't come in.

What is the absolute minimum that I have to do to make my apartment appear okay, if not neat as a pin? What are the most important things? One of the reasons I never do housework is that I never know where to start. I realize that you can't see my apartment, but I'll tell you that I can shut the bedroom door so that no one can see in the bedroom, but the living room doesn't have doors. It's very messy and cluttered. The kitchen floor is dirty and the countertops are dirty and cluttered.

"Chore Wars lets you claim experience points for household chores. By getting a few people in your house or workplace to sign up, you can assign experience point rewards to individual chores, and see how quickly each of you levels up.

Experience points are tracked both as weekly high-score charts, and as ongoing character sheets - every time you rack up 200XP of chores, your character gains a "level", and their class changes to match the type of chores that they've been doing."

http://www.chorewars.com/

Via boingboing.com

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