For once, I'm too tall

I got stuck at average height in the US (5'4"). For most things, this means I'm on the short side. I live with a stepstool easy to get to in my house and all is well.

Well, here...that's all broken. While I don't clock my head on every door like Owl and Chrys (6'4" and 5'11", respectively), I am apparently too tall to run a Japanese house.

I cleaned today...my back hurts for it. The broom is too short. Ditto the vaccuum cleaner. Heck, so are the sink and washing machine if you want to get particular. The good news...it's a small apartment so it only took me about an hour to clean pretty much everything. The bad part is that it felt like an eternity since I was hunched over the whole time.

I, for one, will be very happy to have to stand on my tippy toes to reach stuff in another year. Hopefully I'll remember not to complain when I can't reach something. :)