Clean Queen Bee on a Sudden Clean Spree

It's 11:30p.m. My children have long been asleep and my husband is out with friends for the night.
On a quiet night like this, I tend to engross my mind in the latest bestseller or zone out on some show playing on Discovery. But tonight, when I finally had free reign of the house, I noticed that one of my pieces of furniture was looking rather dusty. So I took everything off, dusted it all down and put it all neatly back. I figured that would be it. I'd make a cup of tea, light some candles, put on some soothing music and catch-up on a magazine.

I entered the kitchen and started the teapot. As I stood there, waiting for the water to come to a boil, I noticed that our toaster oven was in desperate need of some TLC. So I grabbed a rag and quickly wiped it down. But for some reason, it didn't feel quite good enough. So I grabbed the Windex...then a sponge...then an SOS pad. After I'd successfully scrubbed it to my liking, I noticed the microwave had some smudges on the buttons, so I took a cleaning cloth to it. Upon opening it, I was horrified by the splatters caked inside. How did I never notice this?!

This pattern continued until I'd spent the better half of the night cleaning my kitchen. I even dusted the forgotten top of the fridge! Once my kitchen was cleaned, I thought I'd be spent, but the sudden need-to-clean spree continued into organizing the coat closet and picking up the livingroom (even going as far as sorting the toys in the baskets on our bookshelves). By the time I was finished, I was disgusted with myself that I'd wasted the best night to relax, but was also feeling rather accomplished because I knew that the weekend could come and my house would be clean...well, clean as in, minus the whirlwind of toys that are left in the wake of my kids.

When I finally felt like it was safe for me to sit down, I started clipping coupons. I see a coupon for $3.00 off 'Chef Michael's'. I look at the picture and see hearty chicken chunks in thick gravy with veggies and think, "Wow, that looks good!" I begin to clip said coupon but upon closer inspection, I see that it isn't for some bagged frozen dinner...it's for dog food! I'm going to confess: I'm rather upset that they made dog food look so appetizing. I was looking forward to making that 'frozen dinner' in my nice clean kitchen!