Hi everyone, Ronnie here. You're listening to Clean with me, the podcast where I talk you through,

cleaning your house. Thanks for joining me today. This is episode 73, I believe. I know it's been a long time since I have posted a new

episode. I apologize for that. I've just been busy with a lot of things. So I'm going to have you

get started on kind of your preliminaries. And then I'm going to give a few shoutouts and explain what I've

been up to. So first of all, you're going to want to either straighten up the front entrance

area of your home, or maybe start a load of laundry, or if you're just having trouble,

getting motivated, maybe make sure that you're feeling presentable,

light a candle so your house will smell good and you'll enjoy the process of cleaning.

So go ahead and get started on that. And for those of you who do start a load of laundry,

I'll remind you at the end of the episode to switch

that from the washer into the dryer. So that might be a good way to kick off your cleaning

session. Well, let's see. I'll give you just a few excuses. I have gone out of town twice over the

past few weeks, and I have a brand new puppy. And it's been really hot outside,

so it's not like I can just leave the puppy out in the backyard for very long. I just have to

take her out to the bathroom, bring her back in. Somebody's got to be watching her all the time,

stuff like that. So those are just a few of my excuses. And also just when, when you go a long time

without doing something, it's like you kind of lose your nerve, if that makes sense. Not that I'm

painfully shy or anything, but I'm just kind of out of the habit of recording. So I've been

procrastinating on it a little bit. But I'm back,

and I want to thank Laura for checking on me. She sent an email to make sure I was okay,

and I appreciate that. I guess another one of my excuses is I've gotten a little bit of hate mail,

which I didn't take very well. But I need to develop a

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