This house is clean

[bunchofgrapes]

Many, many years ago, a co-worker used to comment on how she needed to go home to clean because the cleaning lady was coming the next day. This was something I could never comprehend. If a woman was coming to clean your house, why do you need to clean it first? Doesn't that defeat the purpose?

Yesterday I got an estimate from Silvia to clean my house once a month. I spend most of my weekend doing yard work or cleaning the house but I feel like the house is winning. Silvia cleans my friend's house and her parents house and they love her so I got her number and actually called. She came out yesterday so I could meet her and she could see the place and give me an estimate. Her estimate was extremely reasonable so she's coming tomorrow morning.

After she left, I immediately knew what my co-worker meant. Looking around the place, I realized that I needed to clean up the clutter so she could actually clean. So I have spent the entire weekend attacking the clutter. Having a cleaning person come is like watching that show, Hoarders. I was tossing stuff right and left, filling up the recycling bin with magazines and junk mail, and getting together a box of stuff to donate.

So yeah, to get your house cleaned, you first have to clean your house.

Comments

[bunchofgrapes]

Hey, stranger, nice to see you around!

Of course it never occurs to men to maybe put some pants on! I wasn't here when they came today. My friend who recommended them, leaves them the key so that's what I did. The massive framed PG hockey sweater is still here so I'm good with that. Plus, it's fun to come home and see what they cleaning fairies did.

[bunchofgrapes]

O really is kick-ass! I've also seen Love and if you're a Beatles fan, it's also excellent. Hell, it's excellent even if you hate the Beatles. My goal though has always been to see Ka. Still haven't made it to that one.

I hope you stick around and maybe still have a place in your writing heart for Brass. I miss your fics.

[(Anonymous)]

I want to see Ka and Zumanity next time we go back (hopefully in March). And I still have all the love for Our Man in Vegas, trust me -- I'm just not thrilled with the direction the show's been going in, which makes writing fic a bit...difficult. Let me see if I can finish the current WIP, and then see where I can go from there.

[bunchofgrapes]

We were going to see Zumanity in addition to Love but ran out of time.

I share your not thrilledness with CSI this season regarding Brass and Catherine's friendship. It's mostly just pissed me off, as my blog entries will confirm. However, I may still write the pairing. Most of my Brass/Catherine fics are AU anyway and I still love their rapport in the earlier seasons, before aliens sucked out the writer's brains, so I can deal with what's going on currently. That is, when I get back to that pairing. Right now I'm having too much fun with Brass/Annie.

As for where you can go, might I toss something out there? It occurred to me during a conversation with spottedhorse that Brass and some of Tony Soprano's crew might have crossed paths more than once. Just sayin'...

[spottedhorse.livejournal.com]

I remember when my Mom was getting her house ready to sell. My brother hired a cleaning lady to come once a week, just to be sure that things were clean because Mom was no longer very good at doing that; she liked her clutter and had little nests of it everywhere. It was my assignment to go help her prepare for the cleaning lady. It took four days to get the nests cleared up so that the lady could do her job. But once she arrived, it was like magic. In three hours, Wanda had achieved what it would have taken me a full day to clean with my mother. And the bonus was that after Wanda started coming, Mom kept her nests picked up because company was coming.

[bunchofgrapes]

It is like magic! I can't imagine how long it took these woman (I think there are two or three of them) because honestly, it was an uncluttered mess. Seeing this clean is sort of inspiring.

[snowydragon1776.livejournal.com]

Very sad but true. My mom does the same thing.

[bunchofgrapes]

I'm really glad I did because they cleaned everything.