Something is very wrong here. I spent today cleaning. Not just the usual cleaning. Oh, no. Today I was straightening out stuff in the basement and everything. Why, you may ask? Because tomorrow I am having a complete stranger in my house. This stranger will be in my basement, in my den/office, in my bedroom. Therefore, I couldn’t allow this stranger to see what a slob I really am.
Tomorrow we’re going fiber optics. This requires a person in my house. Now, while I like the idea of having a better TV picture & faster Internet, I do not like the idea of someone being in my house all day. That’s not the point, though. The point really is – why the heck is my house cleaner for someone I will never, ever see again than it would be if I was having the family over? That is just wrong.
I am also not happy that I will not have Internet access for who knows how long, nor a phone. Well that’s not entirely true. I do have my cell phone. And I can probably hijack my neighbor’s wireless signal. Well that’s assuming they have their router turned on and that they still aren’t smart enough to encrypt it.
But I keep coming back to the fact that my bedroom is neater than it has been in months. Maybe I need to invite strangers into my house every now & then so it will motivate me to clean a bit better?
Nah! That’s just crazy talk!
I’m crossing my fingers that your internet won’t be out for long at all. And I mean that in a totally selfish I-hope-Monkling-can-update kind of way.
We need someone to come and work on our heat pump and I can’t do it until we get the basement cleaned up.
Just enjoy the clean! That’s all you can do really, right?
(I clean before my real house cleaner comes- there’s something truly wrong with that!)
My mother-in-law gave my husband a visit from a house-cleaning service for Christmas. We haven’t been able to get the house cleaned up enough to have them come over and clean it. Yikes…
Everyone will be thrilled to know my Internet is back, my phone is back, and I now have HD TV. And it only took me half an hour to figure out how to hook up the DVD player. Tomorrow the really fun part of this – canceling the Tivo and the cable. I’ve heard horror stories.