What's on your agenda for today?

Good morning all.
i have already been out for coffee and cake...may go shopping this afternoon, and catch up on GBBO tonight...I was out last night!
ryder Cup starts tomorrow..
 

Vivjen, out? Seems to me that you're turning into quite the carouser! If you'd called, I'd have employed my magic wand and my supersonic broom and joined you for coffee and cake.
 
Any Thursday morning, Georgia....we visit different garden centres, for a gossip!
anybody is welcome....and guests get their coffee and cake paid for!
 

Busy weekend starts tonight. After dinner DH and I have to shop for two birthday gifts. My Grandson is turning 12 and my Grandaugher 10. He wants a video game.. She wants boots from Justice. Then tomorrow.. we go out to our other house.. (which is on the market for those interested hahaha) and start bringing stuff back.. This weekend we are attacking the garage.. THEN home on Saturday evening.. and on Sunday DS is bringing the GKs over for their birthday.. we will go out to dinner, as I have no desire to cook.. and then home for cake and presents... Monday.. work. Whew..
 
All that activity, Quick! I'm worn out already.

Tomorrow afternoon after work, I'm off to dog sit until Tuesday. Nice house. Nice dog. My kitty won't be happy, but I'll come home to visit him twice every day. My dog only lives down the road about a mile.
 
Well, fiddlesticks. My every-other-Tuesday clients are putting their house on the market and have moved in with the parents/inlaws until their new house is built. The parents/in laws are also clients, and it will mean two more hours there because they'll have the entire upstairs, but it will also mean that I'll lose the difference...three hours. It doesn't make me happy to lose ANY hours between now and the end of the year.

I'm debating whether to look for another client in our subdivision. The houses in that client's part of the subdivision are pretty small, most of them only 1400-1500sf. I really don't want to take on another big house. A couple of my clients have houses so big that when I first started working for them, I felt like I needed to leave a trail of cookie crumbs in order to find my way back out! One is 4800sf, two others 3500sf. Funny thing is that these clients each only have one child but have three or four bedrooms, office, media room and man cave along with the usual living area, dining room, breakfast room, kitchens as big as all outdoors and at least three bathrooms. I guess it's the American way: if big is good, bigger is better.

So...if I post on our HOA page on Facebook, I take the chance that somebody in one of the 2000+sf houses will want me. Ugh. If I offer, I can hardly turn around and refuse. It's not like I can say "no, your house is too big".

Dear me. What's an old cleaning fairy to do?
 
If I were to tell you all that went on at work today you would absolutely swear I was telling porkies...so I won't. I can barely get my head around it myself. Suffice it to say, it's been a horrendously difficult week at work, and I'm glad I'm off now for a few days!
 
hollydolly said:
If I were to tell you all that went on at work today you would absolutely swear I was telling porkies...so I won't. I can barely get my head around it myself. Suffice it to say, it's been a horrendously difficult week at work, and I'm glad I'm off now for a few days!
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Hope the days ends on a better note for you, but, feel free to share, mike make you feel better or do nothing more than cure our nosey curiosities. :D But, hopefully, you feel better either way.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Well, fiddlesticks. My every-other-Tuesday clients are putting their house on the market and have moved in with the parents/inlaws until their new house is built. The parents/in laws are also clients, and it will mean two more hours there because they'll have the entire upstairs, but it will also mean that I'll lose the difference...three hours. It doesn't make me happy to lose ANY hours between now and the end of the year.

I'm debating whether to look for another client in our subdivision. The houses in that client's part of the subdivision are pretty small, most of them only 1400-1500sf. I really don't want to take on another big house. A couple of my clients have houses so big that when I first started working for them, I felt like I needed to leave a trail of cookie crumbs in order to find my way back out! One is 4800sf, two others 3500sf. Funny thing is that these clients each only have one child but have three or four bedrooms, office, media room and man cave along with the usual living area, dining room, breakfast room, kitchens as big as all outdoors and at least three bathrooms. I guess it's the American way: if big is good, bigger is better.

So...if I post on our HOA page on Facebook, I take the chance that somebody in one of the 2000+sf houses will want me. Ugh. If I offer, I can hardly turn around and refuse. It's not like I can say "no, your house is too big".

Dear me. What's an old cleaning fairy to do?
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I used to do a bit of pet sitting for friends and neighbors, I miss it, but because of my medical issues, I can't do it anymore, I've kept neighbors pets as long as two weeks or so when they've gone out of the country or had to other situations with needing a place for their pet to stay for a while.
 
April, I do also dog sit for some of my clients...a selected few with dogs that I positively adore. Starting tomorrow afternoon, I'm sitting with my favorite Big Yellow Dog. He's a mellow yellow dog and very old but still playful. I'm probably his favorite cleaning fairy. Well. I must be. I'm his only cleaning fairy! Yes, I know...it also makes me his least favorite cleaning fairy!

My next dog sitting gig isn't until Thanksgiving week, from the Sunday before until the Sunday after, unless somebody asks for me between now and then, which isn't likely. I'm kinda snooty about the dog sitting and won't do it for just anybody, only for my clients who have pets because the clients are people I already know and their dogs are already my buddies. If someone I didn't know were to call me and ask me to dog sit, I'd decline with polite thanks, even they were referred by a client. Let's hope I don't find myself eating my words!

There is a couple in our subdivision who've made casual inquires in the past about cleaning for them, and I'm thinking of asking if they're still contemplating having a cleaning fairy. They have a dog and two kitties. The only trouble is that they are incredibly messy (the clients, not the pets). Whaddaya think? Would my contacting them make me appear pushy? Desperate?


Sigh.
 
AprilT said:
Hope the days ends on a better note for you, but, feel free to share, mike make you feel better or do nothing more than cure our nosey curiosities. :D But, hopefully, you feel better either way.
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Thanks April, but I think I'll just keep it to myself no point in depressing a whole bunch of people, but thanks anyway for offering a listening ear. :)
 
C'mon, Hollydolly! If I can post paragraphs whining about whatever, you can share with us. You won't depress us. And you never know, we might come up with some words of wisdom or even a solution, if it's a problem.

BTW, I get a chuckle from some of the slang phrases that we don't use on this side of the Pond: "telling porkies"!

Anyway, glad you don't have to work tomorrow.
 
Thanks Georgia... I'm laughing at you, chuckling at our different phrases (porkies shortened version of the cockney slang pork pies meaning lies)..hahaha...:D

It's getting late here now, it's been a very long tiring eclectic day, if I feel more up to sharing I'll do it tomorrow.. :)
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
April, I do also dog sit for some of my clients...a selected few with dogs that I positively adore. Starting tomorrow afternoon, I'm sitting with my favorite Big Yellow Dog. He's a mellow yellow dog and very old but still playful. I'm probably his favorite cleaning fairy. Well. I must be. I'm his only cleaning fairy! Yes, I know...it also makes me his least favorite cleaning fairy!

My next dog sitting gig isn't until Thanksgiving week, from the Sunday before until the Sunday after, unless somebody asks for me between now and then, which isn't likely. I'm kinda snooty about the dog sitting and won't do it for just anybody, only for my clients who have pets because the clients are people I already know and their dogs are already my buddies. If someone I didn't know were to call me and ask me to dog sit, I'd decline with polite thanks, even they were referred by a client. Let's hope I don't find myself eating my words!

There is a couple in our subdivision who've made casual inquires in the past about cleaning for them, and I'm thinking of asking if they're still contemplating having a cleaning fairy. They have a dog and two kitties. The only trouble is that they are incredibly messy (the clients, not the pets). Whaddaya think? Would my contacting them make me appear pushy? Desperate?



Sigh.
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Nice, all those that I pet sat for are people that I was very well familiar with or at least with a family member of theirs. I love dogs especially, though I've sat with a few cats as well. I also used to volunteer at a pet shelter. I so wish I could do some of those things again. I'm thinking of just maybe going to sit with cuddle, maybe light care at a pet shelter in my area, I just can't walk them.

I don't think it would be at all pushy to inquire with this couple as to if they could still use your assistances, them might be quite grateful for the approach, either way nothing ventured nothing gained.


hollydolly said:
Thanks April, but I think I'll just keep it to myself no point in depressing a whole bunch of people, but thanks anyway for offering a listening ear. :)
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Any time holly, I mean that, not a bother at all.
 
Happy Friday, y'all. I'm off to work in just a few minutes. Hope everybody has a swell day. In a hurry this morning. Like the cow's tail, I'm all behind!
 
Heading out later today for my other house.. we are selling it, so we are bringing stuff back with us little by little.. it's going to make a daunting task easier when we do sell.
 
Have a good trip, QS.....I just got home from grocery shopping for myself and my mom, mom has to make all the stops to save 15 cents on a can of corn..:crying:.....hey big thumbs up to whoever reworked our emotions.
 
Hi, kids, I'm ho-o-ome.

Last night my dog people changed their plans and aren't leaving until tomorrow morning. Sigh.

This morning I got a text from the client whose house is being sold asking if I'd stop by and put my eagle eye on the house to see if there's anything they missed in getting it ready to show. I did. They didn't miss a thing.

This afternoon I got a call from a former client asking what I used on his floors. They're hand-scraped hardwood planks that were custom made on site while he was having the house built (and must have cost a king's ransom!). Since I've been gone, about two years, he's had four different cleaning fairies and been satisfied with none of them, because (1) they leave his glass shower enclosures streaky and because his floors look awful.

Anyway, he asked if I would consider coming back to work for him either every two weeks just to do the floors and shower enclosures or to clean the whole house. I agreed to clean the whole house...hardly worth it to go for just an hour or two. He's happy; I will remain solvent. Win/win!

I guess that old saw about one door closing/another opening is true. Lucky for me.

I hope everybody else had as good a day as I did.
 
Good Luck QS, have a safe trip and a good weekend.

Shopping with family, sounds like a fun day Jackie, hope the rest of the day is more enjoyable for you.

YAY! For you GXP! :)
 
Happy Saturday, kids. My agenda. Hm. Just gathering up my stuff to take to Big Yellow Dog's house. I may also throw caution to the winds and gather my wits but don't want to overdo...

Anybody going to do anything really interesting? Dining? Dancing? Shopping? Spoiling g'kids? Partying in the streets? Playing practical jokes on the unsuspecting? Foraging for food to stockpile for winter?
 
Going to the theatre tonight...to see Grease; amateur production by a group of youngsters.
they did West Side Story last time; it was fantastic.
meal out first, naturally; good girlie night out!
 
Quiet day today. Last night we went to an Italian restaurant, with two other couples, and had a fantastic dinner. Started with a red wine and appetizers, a fresh green salad with house dressing, stuffed shells with mild sausage, and coffee and a delicious cake for dessert. Good friends and good times. It was a end of camping season dinner which we try to observe each year.
 
FINALLY...the homecoming day is here for the 15 year old grandaughter,Im free of all the runarounds for another year.

I cant believe what you girls go thru just for a homecoming day. What is a homecoming day anyways???
 
I have a friend that is also an ex-pilot and he bought a Hawker 400XP, which is a small jet. His Father left him a bundle of money and he spent some of it on this plane, which my guess would be that it cost somewhere around $1.2 million. He is flying it to the local airport in Harrisburg and should be landing around 2:00 p.m. He has offered me the opportunity to take it up and I'm not turning it down. It is a beautiful day here in south-central Pennsylvania with blue skies, will be about 80 degrees and light winds. Just the perfect day for flying. I will be flying southeast and then over the Chesapeake Bay. I have to file my flight plan and then off we go into the wild blue yonder.
 

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