Starting Fresh

If I'm going to have a fresh start to the new year, I need a fresh house. Cleanse the house, cleanse the heart and mind? I don't know. But Ben and I did spend 8 hours yesterday cleaning our apartment top to bottom. And when I say clean I mean CLEAN. Lauren, you could come over right now and not sneeze once (or thirteen times like normal)! I don't think our place has been this scrubbed since we first moved in, almost three years ago. I did things like wash the filter in our air conditioner and sweep under the fridge. We moved every piece of furniture to vacuum and scrub. Partly because we really, really needed to and partly because I really, really wanted to find my jewelry. But no luck. Ben did find a necklace in the vacuum bag, but not the one I was looking for. I didn't even know this one was lost. Sigh.

Well, here's to 2009. Here's to starting fresh.