I keep stepping over piles of kitty litter.

    It's everywhere. The kitty litter. The dog hair. The collections of fur and crumbs and dust under the furniture and in the corners. I sweep everyday. Sometimes three times a day. It doesn't matter. When you're outnumbered in your home by four legged creatures with fur, who don't clean up after themselves, you spend a lot of quality time with your cleaning products. In a dream world we would have a robot vacuum, or a Dyson, or something that actually worked and didn't weigh 85 pounds or smell like old cat pans. But it is not a dream world, clearly, look around at literally everything going on all over all the time... and it's clear we are in a nightmare world. That is all beside the point. The point is that I have a yellow handled rubber bristled push broom with a squeegee side as well, and the handle is telescopic though I generally don't find that convenient except for in storage. It was a targeted ad I kept seeing and since it was clear that no one was going to gift me a $400 vacuum, I went ahead and bought this broom that IG told me was going to be the best broom ever. 

And I know, now is when I say, AND IT WAS NOT. 

BUT.. it is a pretty fucking great broom. I should know. I use it two to three times a day. Every day. 

I've since added a really nice dust broom with washable microfiber pads to my endless cycle of floor cleaning (even though the floors will never ever ever be clean)

and through this loop of days spent in this house: fretting and worrying and clenching my jaw, feeding the animals and the humans, watering the plants while knowing the drought will kill them anyways, reading Octavia Butler at 1:00 am while everyone sleeps, making coffee and lunches for him, scraps to the neighbors' chickens, ignoring the compost, ignoring the piles of paper, ignoring the pain in my teeth, don't forget to read up on homeschooling (oh no why no) don't forget to pay the health insurance, don't forget to try to find lysol wipes and paper towels, don't forget to send in your mail in ballot, don't forget to not look at social media or try not to anyways maybe can you please, don't forget to stretch, don't forget to get some sleep, don't forget to stay hydrated and wash your face and take your meds and wear a MASK

and 

and 

and

I keep stepping over piles of kitty liter.