Small space while I HAVE TO LOCK IN AND CLEAN THIS PLACE OMG AAAA

The Spaces is an intimate, stream-of-consciousness cleaning hangout hosted by Cecilia (“Cici”) as she tackles a very messy one-room apartment. She shares her pay-to-win strategy of hiring a cleaner biweekly for vacuuming/dusting, which doubles as accountability to keep things presentable. While sorting Japanese burnable vs. plastic trash and washing dishes, she riffs on food habits (cabbage/daikon-based salads, convenience tofu, side dishes), household systems (minimal dishware to force timely cleaning), and cautionary cookware tales (a gifted Le Creuset-style pot that mysteriously molded; a firm no to high-maintenance cast iron). A productivity tangent covers saving receipts, considering a business credit card for taxes, and discovering the pleasant pretentiousness of café work sessions. Reflecting on being chronically online yet not participating, she wonders about a missed path as a fanfic author and recounts Germany’s mainstreaming of anime. The second hour pivots to a live song-guessing game and an earworm hunt: shout-outs to Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2, correctly identifying Brahms Symphony No. 3 (iii), Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, Khachaturian’s Sabre Dance, an anime ending from Terror in Resonance, and finally plucking Final Fantasy XV’s Valse di Fantastica on violin—while staying considerate of neighbors and copyright.

Session overview

• Host: Cecilia (referred to by name in a quoted anecdote; also self-referenced as “Cici” in playful asides). Primary speaker throughout.
• Others: Occasional interjections from listeners/chat labeled as Speaker 2/3/4; chat participants guessed songs; specific names mentioned in anecdotes include Iris (friend/colleague) and Rora (friend/colleague).
• Format: Informal, stream-of-consciousness Twitter Space centered on Cecilia cleaning a very messy one-room apartment, interleaved with chat Q&A, personal anecdotes, and a spontaneous music-guessing game (classical, anime, video game).

Living situation and cleaning context

• Apartment and mess level
  • One-room apartment (small “monthly”/serviced style) that gets messy quickly. Mess currently described as “really bad,” to the point she locked her door to prevent spontaneous visitors.
  • Differentiates “messy” from “dirty,” but acknowledges the space is currently “pretty dirty,” especially the kitchen.
  • Finds minimalism helpful: the apartment’s standard inventory is only two of each dish (glasses, cups, plates), which forces frequent washing and limits buildup of dirty dishes.
• Cleaning strategy: pay-to-win
  • Recently moved (around June/July). Hired a cleaner who comes every two weeks to vacuum, dust, and lightly tidy (won’t enter the bedroom).
  • The scheduled visits function as an accountability trigger; Cecilia feels compelled to tidy beforehand so a stranger doesn’t see the full mess. Notes that at biweekly cadence it’s affordable.
• Chore preferences and habits
  • Least favorite chore: packing.
  • Frequently restarts laundry cycles due to forgetting to hang clothes; admitted running the same load three times before finally hanging it.
  • Dishwashing: heats water, hand-washes, and discussed removing labels/caps for recycling. Expressed frustration with certain household product designs and chores that feel needlessly inconvenient.
• Progress during session
  • Sorted trash into burnable vs plastic, broke down packaging, cleaned up kitchen surfaces, washed dishes, checked fridge contents, and continued tidying (bubble wrap, stickers, figure boxes).
  • Noted dehydration repeatedly, fetched water, and opened/closed windows.

Waste sorting and recycling practices

• Categories and method
  • Separates burnable and plastic waste; removes plastic components/caps/labels from bottles; mentions rinsing plastics (noting local expectations vary by area but encouraging cleanliness).
  • Observes that plastic bag sizes feel large relative to cans; comments on tedious aspects of sorting.
• Language/code-switching
  • Intermittent German while sorting (“Plastik,” “Stoff,” “Kurz vor acht”), and snippets of Korean/Chinese/Thai syllables during offhand remarks or musical mnemonics.

Food, groceries, and kitchen anecdotes

• Salad and vegetable preferences
  • Recently “into salads” but dislikes dark/bitter leafy greens (arugula/rucola) and “leafy” textures; prefers cabbage-based salads and daikon radish. Likes iceberg/head lettuces.
• Convenience foods and side dishes
  • Praised single-serve silky tofu packs (100g mini blocks) for portion control; bought multiple banchan-style sides (sweet-spicy cucumber kimchi, salted cucumber, corn, pickled radish).
  • Kept a peach jelly drink as a post-cleaning treat; later realized milk had expired, jeopardizing cereal plans, though she has one of the best cereals she’s had.
• Mishaps and humor
  • Found a convenience-store salad on the floor hours later (no dressing; decided it’s fine).
  • Cake-for-dinner story: she and a friend (“resident Gremlin”) ordered cakes; received candles labeled “6” and “7” (twice), but had no lighter, rendering the candles useless.

Personal organization, workstyle, and finances

• Receipts and taxes
  • Trying to keep receipts for tax reasons; considering a separate credit card for work-related spending to simplify bookkeeping (previously used a separate account but is now consolidating).
• Cafe work session
  • Worked in a quiet, aesthetically pleasing cafe; acknowledged the stereotypical “hipster”/pretentious vibe (journaling/working in a cafe), but enjoyed it. Felt compelled to order multiple drinks and foods to justify occupying space.

Internet history and creative alt-life reflections

• Internet use and missed communities
  • Despite being chronically online from early on, she mostly consumed media and avoided social media (privacy concerns, lack of online friends); didn’t participate in fandom communities (Tumblr, fanfic forums) when young.
  • Feels a twinge of regret about “what could have been” creatively—imagines an alternate path where she started with fanfiction (e.g., Inuyasha, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Golden Compass), honed craft, and potentially landed a book deal. Recognizes this is optimistic but emotionally resonant.
• Storycrafting habit
  • As a child, would fall asleep by mentally “branching” existing stories (what-ifs, alternate outcomes), though memory gaps meant rethinking the same 5 minutes night after night.
• Webtoons and manga
  • Lost her Webtoon app bookmarks after a phone replacement; fell out of habit. Recently read a shounen webtoon she liked and rediscovered it shared an author with an older piece she’d read (“Of Straits” or similar-sounding title), which she is rereading. Reads manga intermittently.

Household goods: dishes, cookware, and jewelry storage

• Dishes philosophy
  • Enjoys thrifting “ugly,” mismatched dishes for charm and cost; imagines buying a high-quality matching set when life is more settled. Recalled nearly buying a €150 set (4–6 place settings) but deferred.
• High-end cookware mishap
  • Mother gifted a very expensive French pot (likely enamel-coated cast iron). Cecilia stored a new sponge inside, sealed with the lid, and forgot it for a year; found unexpected mold despite no apparent moisture source, believes the pot is now unusable. Hasn’t told her mother yet; expects she’d now laugh but would have been upset before.
  • Rejects cookware that requires seasoning/special care (e.g., cast iron) as unrealistic for her lifestyle.
• Jewelry storage
  • Wants a simple jewelry stand for small daily-wear pieces to prevent tangling; currently uses a small plastic box (e.g., from toothpicks). Teases that some pieces may or may not be visible in a forthcoming casual outfit reveal.

Music: earworms, preferences, and live guessing game

• Earworm hunt and classical favorites
  • Got stuck on a one-bar earworm; tried identifying it among long-form works. Played with the idea that it might be Shostakovich or Rachmaninoff before finding the match: Brahms Symphony No. 3, 3rd movement.
  • Described Brahms’s music as emotionally heavy and “older-soul” leaning; recalled a teacher noting that Brahms requires emotional maturity. Says Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 is among her favorite piano works (popular because it’s genuinely excellent).
• Guessing game highlights (chat participation)
  • Classical round
    • Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin) correctly guessed by chat early on.
    • Mentioned/contrasted In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg). Another correct guess associated with Khachaturian (likely Sabre Dance from ballet repertoire)—“the boat man” credited as first correct guess. Flight of the Bumblebee came up in comparisons.
    • Eventually pinned down Brahms Symphony No. 3, 3rd movement (after exploring and eliminating other composers/works like Sibelius and Shostakovich).
  • Anime round
    • A Japanese “weep song” was sung (she never watched the anime); chat identified it as the ending of Terror in Resonance (Zankyou no Terror). Her phrasing referenced “Aimer” (heard as “in me”) and “Sakura,” reflecting chat shorthand/naming confusions.
  • Video game round
    • Attempted to recall a theme starting with “D,” then switched; contemplated checking sheet music; plucked violin strings quietly (late-night courtesy). Chat correctly identified Final Fantasy XV’s Valse di Fantastica.
• Instruments and copyright asides
  • Considered playing violin softly to avoid disturbing neighbors and voiced joking concern about copyright enforcement even for brief, quiet renditions. Noted the violin was out of tune and lacking a mute.

Social, language, and cultural notes

• Live-chat interplay
  • Chat helped test audio range (counting to five), nudged Cecilia back to cleaning when she drifted, played along in song guessing, and provided first-correct-answer bragging rights (reward humorously: “you get nothing”).
• Multilingual flavor
  • Code-switched occasionally: German (“Kurz vor acht,” “Plastik,” “Stoff”), Korean (brief descriptors), Thai wordplay, and Chinese onomatopoeia.
• Names in anecdotes
  • Iris: mentioned hosting/visiting; Cecilia contrasted her own real mess with friends’ milder “messy” claims, recounting visiting Iris’s tidy home.
  • Rora: mentioned in connection with an Italian liqueur aside (“anything Italian is from Rora”); sampled a lemon liqueur mid-session and found it strong but good.

Notable quotes and perspectives

• “Pay to win” as a practical cleaning hack: outsourcing motivates personal tidying.
• Acceptance over shame: acknowledges messiness as a core negative trait but accepts it, balancing with self-awareness and humor.
• Minimal inventory as behavior design: fewer dishes forces immediate cleanup.
• Nostalgia and creative regret: laments missing fan communities that might have incubated a writing career; still cherishes daydreaming and incremental creative exercises.
• Practical honesty about maintenance-heavy tools: avoids cookware requiring special care, recognizing mismatched habits.

Small decisions, to-dos, and outcomes

• To-dos considered
  • Find/buy a simple jewelry stand.
  • Consider a dedicated business credit card for clearer expense tracking.
  • Discard figure box/cardboard and surplus bubble wrap as appropriate.
  • Save peach jelly drink as a post-clean treat; revisit cereal once milk is restocked.
  • Possibly call a friend/colleague later (noted she’s traveling at the moment).
• Completed during session
  • Significant trash sorting (burnable vs plastic), dishwashing, some fridge audit, and general tidying.
  • Identified the persistent earworm as Brahms Symphony No. 3, 3rd movement.
  • Successfully ran a multi-round song guessing game with chat (classical/anime/video game), culminating in FF XV’s Valse di Fantastica.

Highlights and takeaways

• Blending chores with community: turned a mundane clean-up into a participatory, light-hearted session with chat, mixing productivity with playful music trivia.
• Personal systems thinking: demonstrated pragmatic approaches to self-constraints (biweekly cleaner, minimal dishware strategy) and recognized where high-maintenance gear doesn’t fit her habits.
• Cultural eclecticism: cross-lingual asides, Japanese-style waste sorting and convenience foods, and wide-ranging musical references from concert hall staples to JRPG soundtracks.
• Insightful self-reflection: candid talk about online history, creative aspirations, and the emotional resonance of certain composers, especially Brahms.