{"id":21784,"date":"2026-01-24T05:33:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T04:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=21784"},"modified":"2026-02-13T05:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T04:41:19","slug":"daily_3979_-_cannot_enjoy_vacuuming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/01\/24\/daily_3979_-_cannot_enjoy_vacuuming\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3979 &#8211; cannot enjoy vacuuming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3979_vacuum.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mind most chores too much. But I really struggle to enjoy vacuuming.<\/p>\n<p>Groceries and cooking? Usually fun, or neutral if I&#8217;m tired or rushed. Loading and unloading the dishwasher? Doing the dishes by hand? Watering the house plants? No problem. Dusting, cleaning the kitchen and the bathroom? I can get myself into a mindset where I enjoy it. But vacuuming I just never manage to enjoy. The vacuum itself is bulky and in my way. The furniture is in my way. The cord is in my way. It&#8217;s noisy. I need to pause to switch the nozzle between carpet mode and floor mode.<\/p>\n<p>During my &#8220;rich people years&#8221; the one service we paid for was cleaning. I really miss that. I looked into paying for it myself but even the cheapest options (sticking to the legal ones and not &#8220;under the table&#8221; deals where the employees have no rights) are more than I can justify paying in my current situation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t mind most chores too much. But I really struggle to enjoy vacuuming. Groceries and cooking? Usually fun, or neutral if I&#8217;m tired or rushed. Loading and unloading the dishwasher? Doing the dishes by hand? Watering the house plants? No problem. Dusting, cleaning the kitchen and the bathroom? I can get myself into a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-observing_the_self","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21784"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21787,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21784\/revisions\/21787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}