I’m running out of creative juice to make a fun title with.

A few days ago, Porter asked if I had put a listing on craigslist.com about my housekeeping. They have a thing where you can list the kind of services you provide. I hadn’t, but I typed up a few paragraphs and push “post.” And then it deleted itself somehow. So I typed it up again, as well as I could remember, and posted it.

On Wednesday night (about 12am), I had made a schedule for Thursday that included all kinds of things, including applying for jobs and working on my resume. So I got up at 7:30am after going to bed at about one, and dragged myself out of bed and did the morning tasks. But I got a call at noon about house keeping, and it turned out that very afternoon was going to work best for both of us. So after a quick reference check by my soon-to-be client, I got a call back confirming that he wanted me to work for him that afternoon. So off I went, returned home exhausted after cleaning the house, scrubbing a meat smoker and grill, and shoveling doggy messes out of the backyard. Then the next day I worked all day at J’s, which I will talk about in another paragraph.

Now, this morning I got a call about housekeeping. I have an appointment for Monday to interview and see the house. This afternoon I got a call about housekeeping! I went to an appointment at Starbucks this afternoon and talked with a very nice person about housekeeping - I am to start there in a few weeks, as they are moving into a new home.

Crazy. I’m so glad Porter asked again if I had put my ad up there. He’s mentioned it in the past but I didn’t really think much of it. There are so many other ads up there for housekeepers. But somehow, people have called me and I’m very grateful. I really am hoping, though, that not all of them have super-greasy smokers to clean.

Ok, J’s house. This is the most amazing housekeeping job I have ever had, I think. It’s a long bike ride uphill to get there, yes. It’s going to be a miserable ride once the rain comes, yes. But once I’m there, I start getting happy and forget about the bike ride to get there.
After I arrive, J, offers me coffee, I usually drink some. Then during my working hours, I sometimes have the house to myself, and during that time I can use the sound system to play any of 27,000 songs that in the system, and pipe it to the area of the house I’m working in. I can sing along, talk to myself, etc. I clean the house, do laundry, eat lunch, clean the house, and go home. It’s really quite fun in the end, even though I often dread going. I attribute that to the hill at the beginning. Once I get past that, I’m practically jumping up and down at work thinking “I can’t believe I have this job!” Besides all of the nice things about the working conditions themselves, this client is also a great person to work for. I like the children, too.

Oh! I almost forgot other things that happened today. I went to a yardsale across the street and bought a turntable/cassette/tuner and two decent speakers for $6. Also, for clothes I bought a jacket, three dresses, two skirts, and a shirt! Very cool that all of them fit pretty well, and some of them perfectly. I ought to post pictures of them, is what I should do! The camera eats batteries though, and I think they are already dead from last time I changed them.

I also posted a new youtube video, by the way.

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