"The only other phrase which occurs to me is "my sisyphusian torture."

I think Sisyphus must have been a housewife (isn't that "Sisyphean"?)

As for picking up your room, or the impossibility thereof, I remember reading once in a comic strip someone remarking that the local bank had been held up by four armed men. To which his friend replied, "Well, if they all had four arms, I guess it was easy for them to hold up a whole building."