I’ve hesitated to write this post for the last few days. I’m afraid of the backlash I’ll receive once you read through and realize how much I really don’t need your sympathy.
I’ve gone nearly 3 years without doing something, and now, it will be my responsibility.
I don’t like new responsibility.
I don’t like most responsibility.
Because I don’t like responsibility, I used the powers of The Secret and the goodness in Oprah’s heart to bring someone into my life.
Dudes. It totally works.
I put it out to the universe, my plan for what I needed.
I was specific.
I was focused.
I was forthright.
I was determined.
Just like Mama Oprah told me to do.
I had my eye on the prize.
A housekeeper.
Oh. Yes. Someone other than me to clean my toilets.
I put it out to the world and every single person I talked to that I needed a housekeeper.
I found her; she found me: the sister to a new friend of mine from my girl’s preschool.
She was perfect. She came every other weekend at first to clean the icky stuff, then she started coming every week and cleaned nearly everything. Out of my generosity (and fear that she’d leave), I paid her too much, let her come whenever she could on the weekends, and helped her out of bad situations.
It was a good 3 years.
Now, she’s not coming back.
Apparently, spending time with her son is more important than cleaning my toilets.
I’m totally feeling sorry for myself so you don’t have to.
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i’m so glad my cleaning lady’s son lives in russia. she only visits him once a year for 2 weeks. phew.
you are SO lucky.
Maybe she had a contact of someone who could step in and take her place…Maybe?
And no, don’t worry – I don’t feel sorry for you. Our housekeeper is my unemployed husband. I don’t pay him nearly what he deserves for cleaning our toilets. I’m totally jealous you could afford a housekeeper. It’s a dream I hope to someday achieve, right along with obtaining world peace and a healthcare reform that’s all inclusive.
I have big dreams.
i can’t afford a housekeeper, but i also hate cleaning toilets.
Too funny Angie— I feel soooooo sorry for you— as I chuckle
i say MEH to youuuuuuuu
My favorite line from the movies … Henry Fonda, in “On Golden Pond”, says to his grandson, who wants to know why HE has to do all this stuff around the house, “What’s the use in having dwarves if they don’t do chores”.
Your “dwarves” are growing up. Just hang in there.
i cannot WAIT to hold privileges over their heads to make them do chores.
I’m so sorry you lost your girl!!! Youll find another one soon I’m sure.. try craigslist :/ ??? good luck!!
thank you. i’ve got someone in the works. WHEW.
Hey, I need a job, how much does it pay, or can I just barter for room and board?
heh. doesn’t pay enough.
I would love to have a housekeeper, but as anal as I am I would have to clean BEFORE she came so she wouldn’t speak ill of me and how slovenly I truly am.
We should have a telethon, or blogathon, to help you find another housekeeper.
i totally clean before she comes over.
Yeah, not feelin’ the sorry for you. Go get reacquainted with the scum on the underside of the toilet.
see. that’s the kind of comments i expected!
thank you
YOU CAN DO IT! (or, I can give you Cheryl or Barbara’s ladies’ info)
please DO
I do feel sorry for you!!! We just started using a housekeeper and it is the best money ever spent!!!!
i KNOW, right?
What a selfish, selfish woman she is.
I know only too well the situation. We need a housekeeper. But instead, we had kids…
we have kids which is why i “need” a housekeeper.
I know you don’t want the sympathy. But I just want you to know I teared up just a little bit…. I have a housekeeper (and I would totally give you her name if we lived in the same area, cause that’s how I roll). Anyway, I love this woman. Seriously…I leave her little gifts sometimes. I have cued the tot to love her too. When she comes in the door while we are on our way out he’s all excited to see her! Coming home after work when she has been there is better than coming home to Edward Cullen ready to pledge his undying love to me. I feel your pain. I;m sending you virtual flowers and a sappy card. Get a new housekeeper. She would want you to move on right?
i loved her. she was our go-to babysitter. i only hope she’ll still babysit.
I AM sad for you. I will immediately send you an email with our cleaning lady’s contact info. I truly believe she saved my marriage and that she is worth every penny I pay her every other week! She is used to cleaning around lots of kid stuff at my house and a few other families that we know, so no worries about cleaning up before she comes.
i will totally contact her. do you know what part of town she lives in?
I do feel for you! I don’t have a cleaner, but if I did I could never do without again.
totally sad.
She’s probably had enough of your toilets and is moving on to an easier life as Robert Mugabe’s hairstylist or somesuch.
english, please.
Never mind, it was a joke that would require knowledge of the world beyond the appendix of America.
The thing I hated most about moving out of California was…well after knowing I’d have to cook, since I couldn’t order all our meals from LA Bite anymore…was the loss of the money for a housekeeper. I cried. A lot. I still want another one.
One day. One day for sure.
we don’t have the money for her, but that didn’t stop me.
*snort*
Awwww. ;p
MEH to you…
My cleaning lady just said she’s going on strike…oh wait, that was ME that said that. Crap.
i’m so so sorry.
I totally feel sorry for you! I REALLY want someone other than me to clean the toilets!!!! And the kitchen floor…and do the laundry and the dishes…basically everything, because I’m SUPER lazy…and I have two kids who like to say they aren’t my servant if I ask them to pick up their things! I hope you find someone else soon. <3
Oh that’s “shitty” heh. But I know what you mean, I’m feeling sorry for myself too..we’ve had a cat for about a year, and I was pregnant/breastfeeding so obviously I didn’t have to clean the cat box…but now that I’m not pregnant or breastfeeding, I HAVE to and I DON’T WANNA!
Maybe I’ll get pregnant or try breastfeeding again….
heh. Or not!
My mom owns a house cleaning business. She trains new employees in my house.It is super great. So just have your mom start a house cleaning service.
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