The Large Bath Tub, Jacuzzi

So…….I would like to impart some of the knowledge and wisdom that has come to me from my many hours of labor and hard work. I think of this as me paving the way so that you have an easier time. There aren’t many things, besides mirrors and that is another post, that give me a hard time during my long days cleaning houses, then those big bath tubs that everyone is getting. For years they were just big and a pain to clean. Now they are so big that it required research into the best way to proceed when faced with the task of cleaning one of these monsters. So, thank me in advance, for doing my research to make your life a little easier.  Here is the best way by far to clean your tub or Jacuzzi, actually, this will work on any size tub. First, fill the tub with warm water. It is important that the water not be too cool or too hot…just right. Then strip down and get into the tub. The best way to clean one of these things is to just be still….maybe a lit candle, and what I have found….a nice glass of wine helps….don’t do anything…..except an occasional sip….and you will get great results in about …..oh….a half of an hour…..then drain…..and wipe the tub dry and in my case I have to fill my clients wine bottles with a little water, wash out the glass…….and voila! Beautiful…….easy…….

Thank you to Todd and Teresa for their help and cooperation in my research.  Thanks guys and I prefer white …over red…..ox

The Telephone

So…….It is the telephone that has given me food for thought, angst and knots in my stomach throughout 2013. Yes, I had the same reaction, one of horror and dismay. Who would ever think that a tool, that is what I consider it, would be able to reek sooo much havoc into someone’s life? I have had an interesting relationship with the phone my whole life but it didn’t seem to play such an important roll as it did in 2013.

When I was a little girl, my father used to say, “I’m only a phone call away.” But back then, the phone was ruled by the matriarch of my family who ruled over who could use it, when you could use it and doled out the phone numbers that were actually stored in a separate  book far from the actual phone device!

As I grew, so did my infatuation with boys and the phone and my ability to remember some numbers, and I became good at sneaking phone calls in my mother’s closet. That practice lead to prank phone calls and trouble with the law, but also lead to my securing a life partner in Steve. Throughout the years the phone matured into the cell phone we have today and I matured into a pretty confident phone operator. We are able today to be connected 24/7. I find the cell phone today a fabulous tool in my life tool box. Emergencies aren’t what the used to be. Now everything can be stored and kept ready for a moments notice. Kids, parents, friends, work, everything is really just a few clicks away. Well, that was my reality till I started dating.

Not like dating at 57 with no real life experience is hard enough, remember I met Steve at 14, but throw into this slurry of a mix the telephone, what I once viewed as an innocent tool, and my life has been filled with new levels of confusion. I not only have the old fashioned phone call to ponder the proper ettiquite, but there are text messages; those little messages that come with ‘tone’ and confusing subtleties. When to call and when to text, that is the question. Although, it is not that simple. Along with the maturing of the phone into something that almost everyone has over the age of ten, so are the ideas of how to use the darn thing! Now we don’t have to answer the phone to see who is on the other end of the line. We have pictures, text and messaging that allows us not to answer the thing.

What I have experienced over this last year, like any good thing, we can turn it into a nightmare, given the desire to do so. We can use this innocent tool as a weapon against another. We can hold out answering any calls from an individual. We can make it a one way power play; only using it for calls to someone, but not answering calls from that person. We can make people wait, so that they wonder what is going on inside their heads. We can hang on it incessantly while we are in the company of others. We can all sit on our phones and be in our own little worlds. We can choose not to answer calls from our parents but while we are in their midst, be on that damn device the whole time with others! We can let the battery die every time we are on the phone with someone. And these are just some of the ways we use the phone as a weapon. The real trouble is figuring out what someone’s relationship is with his or her phone and how we fit into that relationship. Well Good Luck!