Maid to Order
May 11th, 2006
My housekeeper came on Monday. Last time they were here (it’s always someone different, light housekeeping help sent by the City about once/month for people with disabilities) she broke the bench in my bathtub by pulling it out really hard when it isn’t meant to be pulled out! There are strong suction cups on the legs and if you want to move it, you need to slide it and use your fingers to peel them up or whatever. Usually they just clean around it, which I prefer, because if they move it they rarely put it back in the right spot and I have trouble moving it into place. Anyway, she pulled the leg right out and then snuck out of here without saying anything to me. I noticed it about an hour after she left and called them immediately. It took this long for them to get someone out to look at it. Luckily I could still sit on it, as the leg rested on top of the suction cup, it just wasn’t attached so I had to be careful. A man arrived with the housekeeper on Monday to look at it, and today he took it in for repairs. I’ll get it back tomorrow. Finally. It was damaged on March 27! Trust the City to act quickly.
I liked the housekeeper they sent me this time, she was here once before. I wish you could pick who comes out to your place all the time. I’ve only ever called once and said “Please don’t send her again”, because she was exceptionally bad, but usually none of them are THAT great to begin with. They are not professionals like Mini-Maids or something, just young women that have immigrated here from mostly third world countries and are in this two-year program, being paid to do light housekeeping while they learn English, go to school, and figure out what they want to do. That’s why you get someone different most of the time, because they are in a transition anyway. Very sweet girls, all of them, but they’re not even allowed to get down on their hands and knees to scrub something, and most of them dust “around” things and skip dusting what is actually on the table or shelf. Maybe one in five actually dust the telephone and lamp on my nightstand.
Anyway, it’s free, and they vacuum and clean my bathroom and if not for them my shelves would NEVER be dusted (except my mom would probably do it when she comes over because it would drive her nuts), so I can’t really complain.
They’re not going to be cleaning the cat litter box though. Ugh. I love having two kittens, I can’t imagine just having one now, but I could do without twice as much poop to clean up. And I really wonder how something so big can come out of something so small. And so often.
Yesterday I went to the dentist and had a really cute Access driver on the way home. The cutest I’ve seen since AH (but nowhere near as hot). He is definitely single, has an ex-girlfriend here but no ex or current wife thankyouverymuch, he’s 5 years younger than me (not bad), and although his culture is very similar to AH’s and one where the family all lives together etc. etc. he is all by himself in Calgary, his entire family is in Peru. That means his mother, too. He only has two cousins in Toronto that sponsored him into Canada 9 years ago. Hehehe Anyway, I only found this out because the car was full of people and we were all chatting, it wasn’t like he was telling me all of this personally. But he did call me sweetie when he dropped me off. Tee hee!
I submitted a picture of Pita & Pepper to Cute Little Kittens and the next day they were on the “cutest kittens” page with a rating of 8.81. They’re not anymore, so please click here and vote “10″ THANK YOU!! 
We don’t always need to snuggle up together…
But we prefer it that way.
heheeee, cute!!!
AND I’M WITH THEM EVERY DAY OH MY GAAAWWWDD!!!! They make me nuts, they’re so frigging cute. Eeeeeeee!
Donna-that third picture could EASILY be a calendar picture if you submit it to places that are looking for pet calendar ideas. I know every year of one place that is always looking for pet pictures to put in their calendar for citywide distribution-but I think they have to be fixed (the cats) since it is a place that promotes spaying and neutering. That picture you got there is absolutely PERFECT! Your cats are already DIVAS!
You must be So excited with these kitties-I love the pictures and love that they love eachother so much!!
If I had them around I would want to retire from my work and just play with them alllllll day!! lol
I think I have pretty much retired from work… I’m certainly not getting much done these days…
Anyway, they will be spayed very soon, so I’ll look into that calender thingy. They may need their own website soon haha
I don’t blame you one bit! I will let you know when I get that flyer in the mail-I think it happens every summer? Your kitties could be mini rock stars!! They already have the look and the pose down PAT! lol
awww.. how could you not vote for a wee face like that