Against Cleaning (or, Lillian, the Wonder Mop)

Ok, so full disclosure here; I am not the "Spic and Span" type person many of you may have the impression that I am.

All right, no one would actually think that. Still I'm not against having things at least semi-neat.

When the mood strikes me, I can be pretty serious about cleaning up, and I'm aware that I need to impart a good attitude towards keeping things clean into the Lillian monster.

So, when I found myself in a "Let's clean up the Living Room" mood, I was wondering how long she'd stay with me. I have to say this; she was a trouper. 2 hours straight, and she only took one small break while I was doing some mopping, and she wanted to help do lots of it, even stuff she wasn't really ready for. Vacuuming, Dusting, washing the floor, everything.

I really should have stopped there. I should not have gone ahead and used the Pledge*.

First she loved how she could skate on the floor in her socks.

Then, as the finish wore off, she found she could still slide around by laying down and spinning.

Finally it culminated in;

Lillian, laying on her back, being "used as a mop" by her mother, being slid around on the floor, singing a medley of songs from "The Wizard of Oz" at the top of her lungs, giggling wildly between verses. We're definitely carrying the "weird" genes forward.

If only I'd had the video camera handy, I'd have something for her first date. Her second date....her third....

* Yes I know pledge isn't for floors, it wasn't pledge, but same kind of stuff, and I know it's not for floors. Gimme a break, the Murphy's Oil had been unused for so long it had congealed. You use what you have.

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Illusions (or GinMar's on a roll again.)

Illusions: I've said elsewhere that I wasn't in favor of castration for rapists; what I wanted was to bring it home to them what they did to another person. I don't want them to feel good about themselves: I want them to feel accurately about themselves. That's something that always fascinates me about people who find Jaysus in prison. 'I'm reformed, now can you let me go?'

'Did your victim come back to life?'

'Er, no---but I pray every day! I'm nice now!'

'Your victim's still dead. Next!' (Via A View from A Broad.)

It's an interesting one. I figure if someone committed a murder and reformed, and found God/Allah/Whatever, that they would, in fact, want to stay in prison, and minister/witness/preach to the others who've been down the same path, maybe save them too.

Of course, there are people like that, don't you worry. Also the ones who get out after serving their time and try to keep people from going down that path as well.

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