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.

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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'...