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Hey, it's Mariel. Happy pollen season.

Yeah, the pollen. It got me this week. And while I was hiding indoors,

I found myself taking part in a time-honored tradition. Spring cleaning. My stated mission here was to wipe away any pollen that had floated in on a breeze and taken up residence in my apartment

dust. But then I got kind of into it, you know.

I cleaned my fridge, defrosted my freezer, vacuumed underneath my mattress.

You guys, I washed my walls.

Okay, yes, I do have a history of this sort of thing.

I remember this time when I was like seven or eight and I decided to clean the whole house while my mom was out.

I was dusting and vacuuming and sweeping and wiping down mirrors.

Basically I went on this frenzied cleaning spree and she got home and I was like,

I don't know. There was this like weird joy and getting deep into it and being like, oh, this is so dusty.

Yeah.

I'm going to clean it. You know what I mean?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Once you saw all the dirt come off of one thing, you're like, what else has this much dirt on it?

Let me take it off. Let me get it cleaned. And, you know, that cleaning feeling or the

cleaned product or the end result or whatever it was is just so fulfilling. Yeah, there's something

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