Monday was great - we had my folks and a couple of friends over to just hang out, eat hamburgers & hot dogs, and play games. It was a lot of fun.
But the *best* thing about Monday was, I got the whole house really clean. Even though my hubby is home all day (he works like 3 nights a week), he doesn't clean the house very much. He gets offended when I say this, because he claims he cleans. But it's very slap-dash: he'll clean only one room, like the bathroom, and the rest of the house still looks like a pit. And what he does clean, he doesn't clean all that well. The inch of dust on the entertainment center will attest to that.
So my mom brought out a vacuum for us to borrow and I cleaned the *shit* out of my house. We haven't had a working vacuum in months, so the carpet was *filthy.* Now, the house looks so good...it made me feel so much better. I have a classic Type A Personality; when my surroundings aren't neat and orderly, I'm tense and annoyed. So just having a clean house has made me more relaxed. I know, it's picky...but I believe it's a behavior we evolved for a reason.
Think about it: if your home is dirty, you have a much higher chance of breeding disease in that dirt. And of course it will attract parasites & vermin. A dirty home - especially if that home is a cave or a tent in the wilds of the Neolithic - would be an unsafe home for everyone in it - *especially* infants & small children. So, the slightly anal types who just didn't feel right unless their cave was neat and clean would be less likely to have diseases or mice or whatever, thereby being (on the whole) healthier, stronger, and more well-fed (since mice wouldn't be eating all their food).
The slobs would have a higher chance of dealing with disease and pests, which would make them and their children (on the whole) less healthy and well-fed. Guess who's gonna win that race.
So I don't feel bad about my slightly "obsessive" need to have a clean house. I'm carrying on a very important lesson passed down through thousands of generations of women - keep your house clean and your family healthy.