Extreme Home Makeover: Pig Sty Edition
Monday, September 22, 2008

A friend of mine, who cleans houses for a living, gave me a gift certificate for one free house cleaning back in July for my birthday. She made me promise that I wouldn't be too shy to cash in on it and that she really loves to clean houses, so it would be a pleasure for her (and then I checked the back of her neck to see if there were any hinges, screws, or tentacles because I was sure at that point that she must be a robot or from another planet or something). Anyway, there weren't any tentacles or anything (that I could see) and I thanked her for her awesome gift!

Her hubby and I write music together on occasion and DH has also been wanting to collaborate with him when it comes to making music on the computer and recording stuff, etc so he was over one evening last week to play with DH's new Pro Tools/MBox thingamahoozit. Our house was a total embarrassing pit of refuse and I joked with him about how I would feel way too awful to have his wife come and clean for me. Then I got a text message from his wife telling me that she would love to come clean for me this Monday or Tuesday if it's okay. I had to giggle. I imagined her husband going home and telling her, "Honey, you have GOT to get over there. They need help. BAD!" Okay, I don't really know if he did that. Probably not. But I thought it was amusing that she texted me like 2 days after he had seen our vile house.





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So, we made a date for her to come over at 9:30 tomorrow morning. She wants to clean our ENTIRE HOUSE and she is planning to spend the whole day here. I am trying not to spaz out and be one of those people who clean before the cleaning lady comes. I've always thought that was silly and ridiculous, but now I can see why people do it. Not only is someone coming to clean my house, but that someone is my friend and she is doing it for free. I just don't want her to regret ever giving me that gift certificate and then going off and telling everyone what sloppy pigs we are. (not that she would do that, but still)

She wants me to make a list of the things that I want her to focus on the most.
Ummm....how 'bout the filth. That is all.

Scout and I need to make ourselves scarce while my house gets a makeover, and I'm not sure what to do. We are poor, so there aren't a whole lot of options. I don't live in an especially cultured area, so it's not like there are scads of museums and free attractions around here. I foresee that we will end up at the toddler play area at the mall, despite the fact that there are always big kids who exceed the height limit running around like crazed monkeys knocking into the sweet little babies and toddlers. The last time we were there, Scout sat in a puddle of pee in the middle of the big padded donut and I had to buy her some new pants at a nearby store. Yuck.

But it's free.



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posted by Unkempt Mommy @ 8:39 AM,



2 Comments:

At Mon Sep 22, 11:33:00 AM CDT, Blogger Kelly said...

Awesome gift! I wish I had a friend like that ;)

 
At Mon Sep 22, 02:03:00 PM CDT, Blogger Giggly said...

I used to do housekeeping for a living, I loved it! I was like a cleaning fairy ;)
Ummm.... not so much now with my little guy. I can't start cleaning till his final bed time. I can't imagine going back to work for my former clients.

Anyway use the gift certificate(I wish I had one)! You and your friend will be happy in the end :o

 

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