Apple Pie

I need to clean the bathroom, then empty it, today. My plan is to declutter some books and magazines and stuff downstairs to make a place for the bathroom items that won't be used in the shower. Then to apply a bleach or TSP solution to the bathroom. So I went downstairs, and was disappointed (okay, infuriated) to encounter cat urine smells on books. I've turfed out some books, and the ones that don't smell of cat urine will get deposited in a book drop or exchanged for credit at a used books store. I will buy a black light, some pet enzyme cleaner, more bleach, distilled water, and garlic.

So one of the books I was removing was Jean Paré's Easy Entertaining and what did I find but the first page of my mother's apple pie recipe! Hot damn! My father-in-law will be pleased. I am near ecstatic. Maybe it's a sign of my aging that I'm whipsawing between ecstasy and fury right now. But I should photocopy the one page I have and commit the rest to online, and put maybe one copy in the safe deposit box.

How do you get your partner to engage in cleaning, by the way? My spouse seems to be okay with cat urine, and I am not. Should I assume he is insensitive, or that he prefers cat urine to me? He's home nearly all day, whereas I have a lengthy commute, so I can't just drop everything and clean full-time.