Back Home Again.... FINALLY!!

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Hubby and I got back last night around 11pm and we're dogged butt tired!! My hands are so dry from all the cleaning. My nephew really did a job on my parent’s house. It was an absolute pig sty! Hell, a pig is cleaner than that!! The stench was incredible!! Cat pee smell was everywhere!! UGH!! My nephew and his roommate couldn't have known what cleaning is or how to clean!! It took me four and a half hours to clean the half bath!! Four and a half hours!! There's just a sink and a toilet, that's it!! It was just that AWFUL!! Words cannot describe the filth. I found a dead mouse by the toilet!! UGH!! I told mom that there's no way in hell that I'm sleeping in that house until it's cleaned up because it's so gross!! I was going to sleep either in my car or use my credit card and get a room in town but thankfully, hubby shampooed the carpet after I vacuumed. We have an electrolux vacuum, one of the best in the world and we went through 5 vacuum bags!! Now do you have an idea how dirty it was?! GEE MEE MOSES!!!! There were about 25 to 30 trash bags outside by the time we got there!! I'm talking about lawn sized bags!! It was incredible!! Unbelievable!! Shampooing the carpet brought out even more cat hair and debris so we had to vacuum again and again to get it all. 5 vacuum cleaner bags mind you!! A 1400 square foot house, small, and it took 5 vacuum bags!! The first two nights we were up till 3am cleaning, the third and fourth nights we were up till 1 and the last night we collapsed early at 11:30. We just couldn't keep going like we were because we were working from the time we got up until we went to bed and wore ourselves out. Hubby did his best on the main bathroom and he used all kinds of cleaners to get the tub clean and couldn't. Can you guess what it took? SANDPAPER!! It took sandpaper to get the grim out of the tub!!!! It took hubby an hour to sandpaper the tub clean and STILL there were stains that wouldn't come out!! We had cleaned the whole house from top to bottom and then painted the whole house. A friend of mine came and helped for one day, other than that, hubby and I did it ourselves. We cleaned the ceiling fans, windows - inside and out, the front and back screen doors, all of the cabinets - inside and out, vacuumed, shampooed, scrubbed the floors, painted the whole place, and replaced two toilet seats, light fixtures in the master bedroom fan, kitchen sink faucet, changed the locks and did some repairs too. We couldn't do all the repairs because we didn't have all our tools but we did what we could. My oldest brother will do the others once he's well again. He had surgery for skin cancer on his face and neck and has more to go later on. The realtor came by to take new pictures and was amazed at all the work we had done. She thought mom and dad would have to replace two carpets but we were able to save all of them!! Yippee!! So now EVERYTHING in that house is CLEAN!! The realtor thinks it'll sell now, much quicker than it would've.... if ever, the way my nephew had it. It took us from Wednesday afternoon to yesterday afternoon to get it all done but we did it!! Then on the way home we had to stop by my parents place to drop off some things and got some bad news. Dad had gone to the VA hospital for his appointment and had some blood work done. Cancer is showing up once again. We don't know yet where it is but the doctor wants to find out really soon. Talking about a blow. That really blew me away and popped a dozen of my balloons. I've said for a while now that I don't think I have my parents for much longer and I fear that I may be right. What a bittersweet moment coming home, huh? To turn this into a discussion, did you guys miss me?