Bleaching dishes

It is 4:30 am and I just cleaned the kitchen. The dishes were so far behind that I knew it would require some hand washing. Washing dished has freaked me out since I heard about the revolution of sanitization and the decrease in food born sickness since the advent of the dishwasher. My grandmother mentioned bleaching dishes when washing by hand the other day and I thought 'of course that makes sense'. SO of course I jumped on google and quickly found instructions on how to do it. I have never appreciated the fact that I have to clean the food off my dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. Basically it doesn't wash them but sanitizes them. I have never had much appreciation of that and always felt it should be called a dish sanitizer not a "washer". I can officially say that I now appreciate my dish sanitizer. Cleaning, rinsing, sanitizing, and drying dishes by hand takes a long time. Also it involves the majority of my counter space. My hands are raw and I may have ruined my shirt. I now also understand why so many people own aprons (I do not). Live and learn. I have been wanting to start a blog and if I wasn't so tired I may have thought of something more interesting to write about, but I am tired and sick of procrastinating so here is my first official blog and I can not believe it is about doing dishes. Has my life really come to this :)