Recently I have been far too busy. Emails go unanswered, dishes unwashed, the garden wilts and I have long ago lost the battle with the ironing.
I don't know how people cope with the kind of jobs where they have to work until 8 or 9 o'clock every night. Well, I guess a lot of them have cleaners, wives and/or huge incomes. Recently I have not been getting home until about 8.30 every night and I am not enjoying it.
I am seriously thinking of getting a cleaner despite my previous experience of being an employer - Magda was, after all, only a slightly exaggerated version of a real person. Of course the very idea of having a cleaner makes me feel horribly guilty. I first encountered cleaners when I lived in halls of residence. It made me feel very uncomfortable that someone was cleaning up after me. I used to leave notes telling her not to bother doing anything. In retrospect I think it was the university's way of checking that all us first years weren't systematically destroying the rooms.
If I had a cleaner it would force me to become much, much tidier and I would know that the flat was really spotless as I wouldn't let the cleaner across the door until I had thoroughly cleaned the place myself.
A few years ago I was ill and had to be taken to hospital by ambulance. The whole way there, in between worrying that I was about to die, I fretted about what the cleaner would think as I hadn't had time to clean the place before she arrived.
I survived and eventually let the cleaner go although it took me 6 months to do it - at one point I considered leaving the country to get away from her. On second thoughts maybe getting a cleaner isn't such a good idea after all.
I have been too busy to even pick up the stuff off the floor so that the cleaner can clean....I had to cancel her the last three times because It was so messy here. Ridiculous.
I tried to get rid of mine too, but when her husband left her for a Thai woman he found on the internet, I knew I never could....
Posted by: fifi | July 06, 2009 at 12:08 AM
Hola Gan--
Is Magda available for work? I have a few jobs for her to take care of. They are not in strict speaking the cleaning jobs, but there will be some mess.
Besos
Manuel
Posted by: Manuel Estimulo | July 08, 2009 at 12:48 AM
Manuel I am sure that Magda's services are many and varied.....
Posted by: ganching | July 11, 2009 at 09:04 AM