Mission Impossible.

It's 4:40pm and I have less than twenty-four hours to take this house and get it looking like it did before the parental units left two weeks ago. I am looking forward to living on my own again in September and not having to worry about someone elses standard of clean.

Today has been an eventful day thus far--it started with a bit of cleanup, laundry and a shower. I then dug through the garage for primer, paint, brushers, rollers, sand paper and a powerwasher. After collecting all the above, I placed the items in the backyard so that Ken (who was comming over to do work for my parents) could start his work without me. Minutes after Ken arrived, Dave Rees showed up to pick me up. I quickly showed Ken the work that needed doing and ran out of the house to join Dave Rees. A couple of days ago I offered to help Dave and his family because they are moving within the next week to their new house. So we spent the afternoon cleaning out his new garage, first with brooms and a hose--then with all purpose cleaner (which was an 8 on the corrosive alkali scale--this reminded me of my chem lectures). This stuff was pretty close to neon pink which when scrubbed into the floor caused us to be surrounded by pink suds. After power washing the floor (we did our best to avoid a waterfight but we still got a little wet), we hosed down the garage door itself and call it a day. Dave was nice in treating me to lunch afterwords at Quizno's for helping him this afternoon. Now I am home--looking around this mess that I have created in the last couple of weeks...mission impossible.

Speaking of the word 'impossible', I am reminded (through the power of A.D.D.) of an Adidas advertisment that I've always loved:

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Ipossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

Now, having written this blog I realize I should have titled it with quotations around 'impossible'.

Let the chaos begin.