she dusted , vacuumed , scrubbed the bathroom , and washed the kitchen floor , then spent a long time rearranging furniture , knickknacks and the like to achieve maximum effect ; though truth to tell , after moving the couch here and the rocking chair there , nudging a carved bird of teds a few inches to the left , and moving books to a lower shelf , in the end when ted came back home everything was in the same place it was before all her fidgeting .