Getting my life together, you know?

YES.

Keeping a clean house corresponds directly timeline-wise when I started to make irl friends*, being able to keep a stable job, and generally getting my own life together.

For me, it was year 26 that I hit sloppy and gross rock bottom. I hired a maid for an afternoon to help me get back to "reasonable". She and I threw out so much junk and cleaned so hard that I was able to say, "never again!" She was the professional help that I needed at that time.

Do you like candles? I love a quietly burning candle in a freshly cleaned space :3

I'm really happy for you to have been bitten by the cleaning bug!

*previously, I had internet friends and my sister's friends. now I have my own irl friends that my sister doesn't even know!