8.02.2009

oddly satisfying

I use this blog to document my life and record aspects of myself that illustrate who I am at this point in my life. So I would be remiss to go without documenting this.

Confession session: I like to do the dishes. I find a special kind of satisfaction in loading the dishwasher, scrubbing pots, and Cometing the sink. Most Sundays I do the dishes. It doesn't bother me; in fact, I quite enjoy Sunday dishes. The mess always looks worse than it actually is. I bring in my iPod dock and kitchen dance or talk with Mom while she clips coupons. Today, we had grilled salmon, brown rice, corn on the cob, angel biscuits, and watermelon. So good. This was the kitchen mess.

So I decide to tackle it with John Mayer in the background. Ready . . . set . . . go!

I start out my dish washing by putting away all the excess food and organizing the mess a little bit (you know, stacking dinner plates, collecting silverware, gathering pots and pans and pressure cookers). My next step--and second favorite--is loading the dishwasher. Dishwasher loading is most satisfying when I have a completely empty dishwasher to work with. That way I can load and organize exactly how I want.

Beautiful, huh?

Then I fill the sink with hot water and Dawn and go to town scrubbing and rinsing. I usually have someone or two helping dry and put away dishes. (Tonight my helper was Emily.) Then after all the dishes are scrubbed I get to drain the dirty water and get to the best part: scrubbing the sink. At Grandma's I use Comet, and at my house I use diluted Soft Scrub. But regardless, the effect is the same.

Stainless steel perfection.

Tonight's final product?

Now that's what I call domestic bliss.

7 comments:

Shiny said...

Can you do our dishes? We're not the biggest fans of doing the dishes:)

michelle said...

That's just cute, Charlotte. I wish scrubbing the sink was my favorite part. Sometimes I'm too tired after doing the dishes to do the sink...

Denise said...

Ah--bliss indeed! Thank you.

Jill said...

I don't mind doing the dishes if I didn't make the meal, but I don't enjoy doing both.

I love a clean sink too!

Diana said...

love it. You know I love a clean kitchen!

paws said...

Do you clean the sink every time you do dishes or just on Sunday? I have never considered cleaning it that regularly, but judging from the current state of my kitchen sink, I clearly should.

emily said...

I love it so much that you love to do the dishes. It is such a wonderful service to us all. Thanks, buddy!

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