Housework is Hazardous to Your Health

There was a story making the news rounds a while ago about how housework lessened women's chances of getting cancer. It turns out that the referenced study found that moderate activity (of which housework was one example) decreased health risks, but the apparently irresistible temptation to turn it into another lecture about why women should stop get back to the art of homemaking another rant for another day. Today's rant is about
why I am awkwardly typing this with the middle finger of my right hand all bandaged up.

My mistake was in deciding to clean the kids' bathroom. If they don't notice the dirt, maybe I should learn to not care either, but there's a point in which I can't stand it, even if I seldom darken the door of that dank and depressing space. But I haven't reached that point yet, and so the other day I filled up a bucket with hot water and pine cleaner, and went to work.

I left the toilet for last, but there was eventually no avoiding it. I put on some latex gloves, grabbed a rag, and set to scrubbing.

I wasn't looking too closely, for reasons that people with several small  boys living in their house will appreciate. What I failed to realize, though, is that the toilet was listing to the side not just because it's old and needs replacing, but because the base was cracked cleanly in two. I realized it when I felt something catch my finger, and when I looked I saw that the porcelain had sliced through my glove and taken a chunk out of my fingertip.

I'll spare you the gory details. I just wanted to share the following lesson: Don't listen to what anyone says. Housework is hazardous to your health. Also, it's really really hard to type when your I/K/comma finger is either slamming clumsily into letters it has no business touching, or just sticking awkwardly up int the air, leaving the other fingers to scramble to take its place.

That is all.
Topics: Illness and injury