{"id":10399,"date":"2010-09-06T10:11:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T10:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=10399"},"modified":"2014-10-17T20:59:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T00:59:03","slug":"ive-been-cleaning-my-floors-like-a-mad-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ive-been-cleaning-my-floors-like-a-mad-man\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve been cleaning my floors like a mad man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past couple of weeks I&#8217;ve been cleaning my floors repeatedly. Moving furniture to clean the floor beneath it, taking everything away from the wall and away from the corners to get the entire floor&#8217;s surface.\u00a0 My typical m.o. is a quick sweep, vac and swipe with the Swiffer wetjet.\u00a0 But lately I&#8217;ve been cleaning it more often and more thoroughly.\u00a0 I love how Mop &amp; Glo puts a nice teflon shine on the floor, but I need to clean the floor really well first or it&#8217;s going to get that waxy build up.\u00a0 As a test, I just tried a patch 3 tiles wide by 3 tiles down with a 50% solution of Clorox Kitchen Cleaner and water. I used a scrub brush for one minute and I was shocked at how much it lightened it up. The longer I left the solution on, the lighter it got.\u00a0 I&#8217;m considering renting a floor scrubber or asking a friend to do it for me. I don&#8217;t know why it&#8217;s suddenly more important now than it&#8217;s ever been to get the floor clean, but it is. During meditation this morning, I reflected that so often in the past I&#8217;ve made do with a surface clearing of my thoughts and behaviors and beliefs.\u00a0 I&#8217;d make room for something new, but not completely replace the old.\u00a0 I&#8217;d let myself walk between the worlds, so to speak, until I got used to the new ideas and until they ultimately replaced themselves.\u00a0 Now something is clearly happening, and being reflected in me being obsessed with getting my floor clean.\u00a0\u00a0 I have something I want to strip away, to get at the bottom of, to make new and fresh with a clean start, to get in on the ground floor with.\u00a0 I look forward to the unfolding.\u00a0 When I get to the bottom of it, I&#8217;ll let you know.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=38446\">RELATED:\u00a0 My first ever Steam Mop \u2014 A Bissell PowerFresh<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ive-been-cleaning-my-floors-like-a-mad-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=I&#8217;ve been cleaning my floors like a mad man&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ive-been-cleaning-my-floors-like-a-mad-man\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ive-been-cleaning-my-floors-like-a-mad-man\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ive-been-cleaning-my-floors-like-a-mad-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=I&#8217;ve%20been%20cleaning%20my%20floors%20like%20a%20mad%20man&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ive-been-cleaning-my-floors-like-a-mad-man\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past couple of weeks I&#8217;ve been cleaning my floors repeatedly. Moving furniture to clean the floor beneath it, taking everything away from the wall and away from the corners to get the entire floor&#8217;s surface.\u00a0 My typical m.o. is a quick sweep, vac and swipe with the Swiffer wetjet.\u00a0 But lately I&#8217;ve been cleaning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10399"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38502,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10399\/revisions\/38502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}