Cleaning person!?
Ok so. Dad has this idea, well not an idea he's gone ahead and scheduled for a person to come out and give an estimate about what they'd charge to clean in the apartment. He told me last night that he's got someone coming in on tuesday afternoon to give an estimate. I'm a bit angry. We aren't rich, we don't have money to just give away. Rich people have housekeepers/maids/cleaning people. We do not. We have me. I'm not always on top of things, as much as I try. I clean something off, I empty trash cans, or do the dishes/pots, and I just get tired of it. And I stop, and maybe I'll do more later on, other times not. Stuff gets done, slowly, but done. This could be why it seems things pile up, because I don't always finish in one place and by the time I get back to it, its hell again. Kind of like the endless loads of laundry because I might get down to the end and forget about the last loads being in there, and when I finish them.. there's 3 more loads waiting. Dad does get annoyed and he'll start his own laundry, which he'll then ask about later.. Or he'll take his out of the dryer if that's where I've left it, but if there's something in the washer, I find it and re-do it.
So now. Back to this person coming. I feel like I need to clean this place with a toothbrush because I don't want some stranger coming in and thinking no one here knows how to clean. I know HOW, its just.. hard to keep up. When I got home from work today, I went right to work on the kitchen table. I topped off a trashbag, put it out, put a new trashbag in the can, opened another bag and put MORE stuff from the table and managed to empty one of dad's 3 (yes, THREE) living room cans before it too was full. Once I did that, I realized I was hungry, so I ate lunch.. and sat here to rant a bit while I eat. So, in the back of my mind - I've got 2 more cans to empty plus stuff to pick up off the floor and a vacuum to run and kitchen stuff. And the more I think of it, the more it can wait. I'll probably handle the kitchen crap after dinner.. and probably the cans/floor.. so that stuff might actually get done tonight - at some point.
Dad's... reason.. it will help me. How exactly will it help me? Him spending money that he doesn't have to in order to bring some stranger in to clean.. yet I don't want some stranger to see this tornado, so I'll be cleaning anyway - rendering an outsider pointless. That, and I just don't want some random person coming to clean once a week. It would be so much easier if he'd pick something up if it falls. Use the wipes that I bought and leave ON THE COUNTER to wipe up spills. Turn around and reach over to the trash can - don't just leave the empty box/package/wrappings on the counter till I come along and pick it all up and toss it.. to find dishes underneath.. and stuck-on spills.
I did a little test. I made mention of the coffee table that is kind of missing under all the crap he's got on it, he said yeah I'll clean that off. That was a month ago, it has not been touched. And I refuse to. But I might have to do it before thursday. I refuse to clean his room. RE-FUSE! He had a new trashbag draped over the lip of the trashcan, with trash IN the can behind the bag.. like, the bag is there but it was too much to OPEN it and put it IN the can? So last night I put it in the can, because he was opening a case of distilled waters - and pulling empty gallon bottles out from under the sink.. and tossing em on the FLOOR. So, rather than wait and see I picked em up and put them in the bag.. and I left the bag there. So we'll see if more trash gets into it.
I realize I've got pretty much no say in this. He's already made the call. Unless its completely outrageous, he'll probably hire someone. I'll probably just keep my bedroom and office doors shut and make it known those rooms don't need anyone to clean them. I don't want anything to get thrown out by accident. If he wants someone to clean the other areas, whatever. Of course, someone coming in once a week isn't going to want to see what I see after ONE DAY. Imagine 7. If I did nothing for the 6 days inbetween the time the person leaves and the time they come back, I know the place will look like they've done nothing. It would still be nice to have HIM do a LITTLE something to help me out. Be a little neater about cooking, popcorn... finding a way for the trash to get into one of the THREE living room trashcans.
/end rant/complaint/annoyance
So now. Back to this person coming. I feel like I need to clean this place with a toothbrush because I don't want some stranger coming in and thinking no one here knows how to clean. I know HOW, its just.. hard to keep up. When I got home from work today, I went right to work on the kitchen table. I topped off a trashbag, put it out, put a new trashbag in the can, opened another bag and put MORE stuff from the table and managed to empty one of dad's 3 (yes, THREE) living room cans before it too was full. Once I did that, I realized I was hungry, so I ate lunch.. and sat here to rant a bit while I eat. So, in the back of my mind - I've got 2 more cans to empty plus stuff to pick up off the floor and a vacuum to run and kitchen stuff. And the more I think of it, the more it can wait. I'll probably handle the kitchen crap after dinner.. and probably the cans/floor.. so that stuff might actually get done tonight - at some point.
Dad's... reason.. it will help me. How exactly will it help me? Him spending money that he doesn't have to in order to bring some stranger in to clean.. yet I don't want some stranger to see this tornado, so I'll be cleaning anyway - rendering an outsider pointless. That, and I just don't want some random person coming to clean once a week. It would be so much easier if he'd pick something up if it falls. Use the wipes that I bought and leave ON THE COUNTER to wipe up spills. Turn around and reach over to the trash can - don't just leave the empty box/package/wrappings on the counter till I come along and pick it all up and toss it.. to find dishes underneath.. and stuck-on spills.
I did a little test. I made mention of the coffee table that is kind of missing under all the crap he's got on it, he said yeah I'll clean that off. That was a month ago, it has not been touched. And I refuse to. But I might have to do it before thursday. I refuse to clean his room. RE-FUSE! He had a new trashbag draped over the lip of the trashcan, with trash IN the can behind the bag.. like, the bag is there but it was too much to OPEN it and put it IN the can? So last night I put it in the can, because he was opening a case of distilled waters - and pulling empty gallon bottles out from under the sink.. and tossing em on the FLOOR. So, rather than wait and see I picked em up and put them in the bag.. and I left the bag there. So we'll see if more trash gets into it.
I realize I've got pretty much no say in this. He's already made the call. Unless its completely outrageous, he'll probably hire someone. I'll probably just keep my bedroom and office doors shut and make it known those rooms don't need anyone to clean them. I don't want anything to get thrown out by accident. If he wants someone to clean the other areas, whatever. Of course, someone coming in once a week isn't going to want to see what I see after ONE DAY. Imagine 7. If I did nothing for the 6 days inbetween the time the person leaves and the time they come back, I know the place will look like they've done nothing. It would still be nice to have HIM do a LITTLE something to help me out. Be a little neater about cooking, popcorn... finding a way for the trash to get into one of the THREE living room trashcans.
/end rant/complaint/annoyance