Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Jobs - How many can one person have?????

This is going to be short and too the point. And yes Matthew I probably didn't put the right "too" in correctly. Anyway I am, to say the least not been in a good mood for the past couple of days. First of all I have a job that requires me to stand on my feet at least 5-6 hours on a cement floor
that in turns makes my feet and back hurt. So I know it is really my fault but taking a 15 minute break is hard because I stay so busy. The reason I have been in a bad mood is my husband, who I love dearly has decided that I should work 24/7.
After standing on my feet all day he wants me to go to the Cape and clean a four level home and by cleaning, not your normal run of the mill cleaning. It is called a DEEP clean where everything is cleaned and I mean everything. And he wanted it done all yesterday, just kidding but by this Friday. He let me know in plenty of time - NOT!!!!! This is why I am in a bad mood. He let me know Monday night about 10 pm that the house needed to have a DEEP clean by Friday.
Not to mention I have a job and I hate to clean houses, but this was an order from the big man on campus. I truly got very ill thinking about it and having to drive for 30 minutes one way.
So here is a short list of what a DEEP clean consist of.
  1. Clean all windows inside and out
  2. Clean all blinds
  3. Baseboards, ceiling fans, tops of cabinets and furniture
  4. clean bathrooms and light fixtures
  5. air conditioner vents and exhaust vents in bathrooms
  6. clean all fake plants
  7. pull beds out and clean behind headboard
  8. pull all furniture out and clean behind
  9. wipe off hand rails that go up 5 flights of stairs
  10. sweep floors and mop ( steam clean)
  11. take down light fixtures and clean
  12. dust all furniture( actually sand dusting)
  13. clean stove and appliances
  14. clean outside fixtures and furniture
  15. there probably is more that I am NOT going to do
  16. make up six beds

Now just picture all this in a 5 bedroom 5 bath home on four levels 2 stair way per level. And the yard is right on the beach so how do you keep sand out????? And all this has to be done before Saturday morning and I dare not say that I am tired or a tongue lashing I will have to receive so I just "keep my mouth shut"!!!! Even though I am " highly hacked" I will let this be my LAST DEEP CLEAN, hopefully!!!!!!

So PLEASE somebody feel sorry for me, it would make me feel sooooooooo much better.

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Ball of Fire

I took this picture just as the sun was setting.
Isn't it beautiful ? It looks so big and looks like
a big ball of fire.