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.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

New Job

Well I started my new job yesterday, finally. OK, so I took over 1000 pieces of clothing off racks and put in a pile then took them off the hangers and counted them and then put them in another box going some place else. I thought my shoulder was going to fall off. So I guess if I keep doing this I will build up some muscle and strength in my arms-- that's good!!!!

I have never seen so much STUFF and JUNK in my life. And it's a never ending thing as people keep bringing their junk and a lot of times good stuff there. If you need to get a book to read have no fear Goodwill has them I mean 100's all kinds. So Matthew come by and look at the books there are really some good ones to choose from.

Saturday, July 18, 2009

SORRY !!!

I have been very slack on my posting, my husband thinks this is all I do when I am at home. What does he want me to do- clean house :):) I just haven't had much time lately as I am starting a new job on Tuesday at Goodwill. I am very excited about it, you can really find some good deals there. A couple of weeks ago I found a set of china that was beautiful actually it is transulent bone china, I looked it up and I can probably buy it at $500+ it is antique so finding it would probably be a problem. There are a couple of pieces I didn't get but that was ok I paid $10.00:):)
Well Celie spent the night last night went to sleep at 7:15 and it is 8:30am and I think I hear her. She is a good sleeper and wakes up very happy.
I will post more later.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Feeling HOT HOT HOT !!!!!!

Oh my word can I even begin to say how hot it is? This is just June and we still have the hottest month August to go through. Since we have moved to White City, it is hotter here in the summer and colder in the winter. I wish that we could have a freak weather thing and it would forget it was summer and think it was January :):):) Yeah- right!!!
We took 7 girls on a youth trip to Wild Adventures, mistake #1- don't wear black pants with black (to the knee) socks and a 1/4 length shirt, truely I thought I was gonna die. I had to go inside a airconditioned restaurant and get cooled off for about one hour. #2- never expect to NOT get your hair wet riding water rides. I didn't even care at this point what I looked like or what I was wearing. We stopped and the girls talked me into buying some shorts and a short sleeve top. Oh my goodness-I looked like a olive with 2 tooth picks for legs and the legs were as white as my hiny where the sun never shines. But as I walked around looking at who might look at me and wonder why I was dressed that way, I found myself wondering why some people looked the way they did. At that point I didn't care, I was dying and I needed to be in the water getting soaked.
And I did and about drowned one time, I thought:):)
We had a good time just too hot for me and I will never go again in June-August.
Talking about looks, I did get some the first day when dressed in black, I must me a NUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Weekend Visit

I had no idea until Friday night that Adam and family were coming for a short visit. Adam was invited to speak at our church on Sunday because our pastor has some medical issues and she is unable to preach right now. So if anyone reads this blog please pray for her.
So Saturday was an eventful day. Got up early Saturday morning to head out to clean a house on Cape San Blas, it was a mess but it took us about 3 hours(3 people). Thank goodness Matthew is a fast bed maker and very maticulatous, he makes a bed look as good as he makes coconut cakes.
The house smelled of dead fish bait, but bleach cuts all smells and the house ended up looking and smelling wouderful.
Saturday happened to be Mike's birthday and so I thought it would be nice to have the family eat out. Well sometimes Mike isn't good for his word as "I will be there soon". As the time passed it was almost 7 pm and no Mikie. So I go ahead and call Dock Side to see if we can get in as I forgot the fishing tournament was going on, plus we were starving to death, one hotdog does not last long.
So as I pulled up to Dock Side 100's of cars and people were everywhere and our party minus Mikie the birthday boy.
So I finally found a parking place over by the bank and walked not too far to the restaurant where we all met excluding the birthday boy. So we go in and it was very nice all the people were outside, thankgoodness. Also Matthew's family weren't there Celie was past starving I am sure and it was close to her bedtime.
So Nanny gets there and ask where Mike is, well he is at Barrier Dunes (talking)
so we go ahead and start ordering and maybe Mike would show. But have no fear Mike calls and is on his way so I ordered for him and he came in just as his food was placed down, good timing?
The food was very good, we didn't have to wait very long and we got to see some fresh caught fish,it was a nice time after all.
Happy Birthday Mike!!!!

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Do you wanna swing ???

I don't know if this will work or not but everytime I ask Celie if she wants to go swing this is what she does. It is really cute, she likes the BIG swing at my house. You will have to turn the music off.