Since I last posted here, I've acquired a new housekeeper and my life is now complete. She comes here for 4 hours once a week and restores order, vacuuming, dusting, buffing the hardwood floors and mopping the others, and erasing the grubby marks I leave around every doorknob when I come in from outside.
I do love a clean house. I just don't want to be the one cleaning it.