Who Made This Mess!

A clean house is a sign of a wasted life. ~ Refrigerator Magnet

Here's something I've noticed lately: I do dishes, clearing off all the counters and wiping everything down and it looks great - for about five minutes. Then as if by magic, the counters are cluttered with cups and cereal bowls and the skillet I scrambled eggs in.

Same thing with the laundry. I do a couple of loads, fold everything, stow it, and while I'm wondering how my kitchen got cluttered, the dryer beeps and there's more laundry to do.

It's like painting the Golden Gate Bridge: When the painters get to the end, they have to go back to the beginning and start all over again.

There's something wrong with this picture. We can send a man to the moon, but we haven't figured out how to keep the house dusted and the floors mopped, the laundry washed and dried and put away, and the kitchen clear of plates with smears of tomato and bowls with a film of last night's mushroom soup.

And they call this the 21st century.