One Christmas Present to Myself
I got myself a Christmas present, but it's been a lot of work even getting ready. On the heavy urging of one of my co-workers, I've hired "The Maids" to come in and clean house. I've been spending the week decluttering ever since. 8 trash bags later...
They arrived at 9:10, and they came with a crew of 4 (as advertised). They have a crew chief, who wears a white shirt, and the rest are in yellow, and they arrived in a yellow PT Cruiser. Cute car, but not a lot of room in them -- okay, I couldn't fit my three dogs in cages in one.
Dogs of course are upset because they are caged, but much easier than trying to keep track of them. Seems everytime someone comes and works, one escapes.
Their manager showed up about 9:30. She seems very good too.
When I worked a "real" job, with a "real" salary, I did have a maid come in every week. It was very nice. What I would really like right now, would be to find someone local, who would come in work for an hour in the middle of the day and let the dogs out. I doubt with gas prices the way they are, I could find anyone willing to do that. And sorry, other teachers who might be offended, but 16 years ago, I left a $45,000 a year job, to teach at $22,000.
I am going to see about having them come back next Friday and then make a decision on that point as to whether I want to continue.
Right now, we're over an hour into cleaning, and the kitchen is looking good, and so is the master suite. However, not much else is done.
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We're at hour two now, and not done. They did estimate just under 2 hours. I suspect they do that on purpose.
The biggest holdup is the vacuumer. He started out the job by throwing up in the bathroom. Shortly after the owner of the franchise showed up.
I can't figure him out. I think he has vacuumed the upper part and one pass on the rooms upstairs, but not sure. He certainly isn't done upstairs.
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We're coming up close on my 3 hour time limit, and vacuum boy is FINALLY getting to the floors. The bathrooms look good but they are still working on them. The kitchen is great. There is at least another hours work to be done but I really don't know that I want to go there.
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Well, the whole house is not perfect. Right now, I can't decide -- everyone was great but vacuumer. Again, he started out sick, which wasn't impressive. But I'm glad I did use them.