Yesterday I finished cleaning the apartment. You would think it would be quick and easy with a small place, but it isn't. The worst part is the rabbits hay that I have to pick up by hand cause it clogs the vacuum, but it still gets clogged and I have to stop and take it apart all the time. All the windows are clean except the outside panes which I can't get to. I cleaned all the walls including the ceiling of my bathroom...gross. Now I still have to caulk the shower and plastic the windows. These last two jobs both suck.
So yesterday I finally posted a craigslist ad about house cleaning. Got a response this am. It is kind of freaky. I don't know this person, maybe they will hack me to pieces for fun. He said he wants to work with me with the cleaning, which is fine, but again it freaks me out. My ad was ambigous to my sex, so maybe he was hoping for a sexy milf?
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12/18/2006 10:14 #25863
milf12/13/2006 23:42 #25862
Cleaning the bat caveToday I spent hours cleaning, but didn't get very far. The mini-blinds have never been cleaned and had years of dust accumulated on them. Yuck. I couldn't stand it anymore and it was the first thing I wanted to do on the start of my vacation.
These blinds are so embarrassing. I can't believe I'm posting them on here.
Half way cleaned. Spent one full hour on each blind.
These dead crusty spiders I found behind my altar. It freaked me out, maybe they like the chanting and decided to die there.
Then there was a bat in the hallway that I saw as I was taking some garbage out. He was flying around and I screamed and ran inside. Actually I wasn't sure it was a bat at that point it could have been a bird. So then I had to go and open the door downstairs and then I was sure it was a bat. Here is him being bat like.
We had to poke him with a broom to get him to move. This was after creating a plastic shield to make sure he wouldn't fly up the stairs towards our apartment. He went into a fighting stance and then fell to the ground after a second poke.
I'm not sure if he was playing dead or what, but we got him in a box and outside where he is now on the front step. He must have been sick or something. Really they were very gentle pokes.
These blinds are so embarrassing. I can't believe I'm posting them on here.
Half way cleaned. Spent one full hour on each blind.
These dead crusty spiders I found behind my altar. It freaked me out, maybe they like the chanting and decided to die there.
Then there was a bat in the hallway that I saw as I was taking some garbage out. He was flying around and I screamed and ran inside. Actually I wasn't sure it was a bat at that point it could have been a bird. So then I had to go and open the door downstairs and then I was sure it was a bat. Here is him being bat like.
We had to poke him with a broom to get him to move. This was after creating a plastic shield to make sure he wouldn't fly up the stairs towards our apartment. He went into a fighting stance and then fell to the ground after a second poke.
I'm not sure if he was playing dead or what, but we got him in a box and outside where he is now on the front step. He must have been sick or something. Really they were very gentle pokes.
12/08/2006 23:40 #25861
Sleepy teaWent grocery shopping tonight and got some Celestial Sleepy time tea. I wanted the stuff (e:theecary), 231 had mentioned. The Yogi brand I guess is hallucinogenic and that was what I really wanted before going to bed.
so i'm drinking the tea and getting really tired, but I was all ready tired before. Working tomorrow and then have to do school work. Finals are next week and I have a paper, and a take home test to do. The paper is on a poem of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
She uses a lot of Greek mythology. I have learned some of the myths this semester, but I want to to read about it more and in Spanish during the break. This should help me in my next lit class. Anyways, Sor Juana is hot. In 17th century Mexico women could either get married or become a Nun. She chose to be a Nun so she could continue to study. Eventually this Bishop got his panties in a bunch over her seeking spirit and asked her to stop reading and all that. So then she has the balls to write him a letter saying why she thinks women should learn. That is just so hot to me. I bet she probably was getting some sort of action in that convent. Maybe I should ask my teacher about that.
so i'm drinking the tea and getting really tired, but I was all ready tired before. Working tomorrow and then have to do school work. Finals are next week and I have a paper, and a take home test to do. The paper is on a poem of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
She uses a lot of Greek mythology. I have learned some of the myths this semester, but I want to to read about it more and in Spanish during the break. This should help me in my next lit class. Anyways, Sor Juana is hot. In 17th century Mexico women could either get married or become a Nun. She chose to be a Nun so she could continue to study. Eventually this Bishop got his panties in a bunch over her seeking spirit and asked her to stop reading and all that. So then she has the balls to write him a letter saying why she thinks women should learn. That is just so hot to me. I bet she probably was getting some sort of action in that convent. Maybe I should ask my teacher about that.
chico - 12/14/06 00:41
I used to drink Tension Tamer tea but quit it because I think it has a mild hallucinogen in it... had some of the weirdest dreams and nightmares of my life after drinking that stuff before bed.
I used to drink Tension Tamer tea but quit it because I think it has a mild hallucinogen in it... had some of the weirdest dreams and nightmares of my life after drinking that stuff before bed.
12/06/2006 10:14 #25860
CO Detectors don't work inside the box!Sunday night at about 11pm after (e:mike) left I smelled gas in the house. Since all other apartments are empty, I assumed a pilot light went out on one of the stoves in the vacant apartments. I went across the hall into one of them to check it out. It smelled obnoxious. That stove is electric/gas so has no pilot lights that need to be lit. Then I thought it could be coming from downstairs, but no, those pilots were lit. Then I thought there could be a leak in the gas hose of the oven accross the hall. We decided to call the National Fuel gas emergency #.
They came in about a half hour. They wouldn't ring our doorbell or call us to let us know they were here cause it could have blown us to pieces if it was a gas leak. Luckily we heard them pounding on the door downstairs. They came in with this detector and found high levels of Carbon Monoxide in the vacant apartment. We took them downstairs to investigate the furnaces. CO is odorless, but there was some obnoxious smell that the guys said was from improper combustion. He traced it to an old water heater from 1984 and a furnace that when he opened it spit out flames rather angrily. The inside was filled with black soot.
They shut the offending machines off and left. He told us if it was him living there he would open up the windows to let it air out. We have a CO detector but never plugged it in. How stupid is that? It is now plugged in. We didn't use it before because we were afraid it would malfunction when we weren't home and drive the rabbit insane. Me and Mike were tired that day...it just could have been the CO.
They came in about a half hour. They wouldn't ring our doorbell or call us to let us know they were here cause it could have blown us to pieces if it was a gas leak. Luckily we heard them pounding on the door downstairs. They came in with this detector and found high levels of Carbon Monoxide in the vacant apartment. We took them downstairs to investigate the furnaces. CO is odorless, but there was some obnoxious smell that the guys said was from improper combustion. He traced it to an old water heater from 1984 and a furnace that when he opened it spit out flames rather angrily. The inside was filled with black soot.
They shut the offending machines off and left. He told us if it was him living there he would open up the windows to let it air out. We have a CO detector but never plugged it in. How stupid is that? It is now plugged in. We didn't use it before because we were afraid it would malfunction when we weren't home and drive the rabbit insane. Me and Mike were tired that day...it just could have been the CO.
metalpeter - 12/06/06 18:14
Glad you are ok. I didn't know there was such a thing as a gas detector I should really get one since my stove has to gas pilot lights.
Glad you are ok. I didn't know there was such a thing as a gas detector I should really get one since my stove has to gas pilot lights.
mrmike - 12/06/06 14:57
Second that. Good thing it was much ado over nothing
Second that. Good thing it was much ado over nothing
ladycroft - 12/06/06 11:08
i'm glad you're ok!
i'm glad you're ok!
matthew - 12/06/06 10:33
I wonder if the new owners of your house will be told of the problems, they should be. We just bought 2 carbon monoxide and explosive gas detectors. 120 bucks! but i guess our lives are worth a bit more than 120 dollars, i think. Glad to hear no one died! :)
I wonder if the new owners of your house will be told of the problems, they should be. We just bought 2 carbon monoxide and explosive gas detectors. 120 bucks! but i guess our lives are worth a bit more than 120 dollars, i think. Glad to hear no one died! :)
12/01/2006 22:41 #25859
Before being blown away to OzMy lights have been flickering. Shouldn't really have my computer on with them doing that, but I need it.
There is a large piece of roofing on the front lawn
When the wind gusts i can feel the house moving. Maybe I should get downstairs if ever we were in a really bad storm? There is a cellar door just like at Dorothy's house in Kansas on the side. Forget going down there, I would go to my neighbors first. My basement is too Blair Witchesque.
Time to worry about my paper again. I'm writing about the War of 1898 against Spain. Manifest Destiny and all that fun stuff. One of my sources has to be in Spanish, which is fine, but they don't have a wide selection at the Buffalo Public Library or Buffstate. I don't know what to trust on the net and I haven't found anything through database searching via my school's library page. My teacher gave me some videos on the subject to watch, but my VHS player likes to eat tapes.......so.... I can't watch them. Actually I watched one at my neighbors house while she was gone but now she is home for the weekend and I don't want to force her to watch a boring war movie. I like watching documentaries, but not the ones that dwell on battle scene logistics for too long. I like the ones that focus more on causes and effects what people thought and all that. Paper due Tuesday...procrastination bad. I could have done interlibrary loan if I did it sooner.
There is a large piece of roofing on the front lawn
When the wind gusts i can feel the house moving. Maybe I should get downstairs if ever we were in a really bad storm? There is a cellar door just like at Dorothy's house in Kansas on the side. Forget going down there, I would go to my neighbors first. My basement is too Blair Witchesque.
Time to worry about my paper again. I'm writing about the War of 1898 against Spain. Manifest Destiny and all that fun stuff. One of my sources has to be in Spanish, which is fine, but they don't have a wide selection at the Buffalo Public Library or Buffstate. I don't know what to trust on the net and I haven't found anything through database searching via my school's library page. My teacher gave me some videos on the subject to watch, but my VHS player likes to eat tapes.......so.... I can't watch them. Actually I watched one at my neighbors house while she was gone but now she is home for the weekend and I don't want to force her to watch a boring war movie. I like watching documentaries, but not the ones that dwell on battle scene logistics for too long. I like the ones that focus more on causes and effects what people thought and all that. Paper due Tuesday...procrastination bad. I could have done interlibrary loan if I did it sooner.
jenks - 12/01/06 23:01
i have a VCR you can borrow...
i have a VCR you can borrow...
That bat was so terrifying. At first I think how scary is a bat but then when I actually see it! Terrifying! But I can't believe it died. It looks so sad lying on the floor!
I used to use the same technique with washing the blinds in the shower. It seemed to work great. Unfortunately, office windows are made of wood and the windows were like 90 inches so I spent about a whole day cleaning the cat dander/dust off them. I considered throwing them out at one point but wood ones that big are mega expensive.
I am not a blind cleaner - my blinds were absolutely shocking in my living room so I threw them out and bought new ones. I'm extremely bad with these kinds of things but Chico just inspired me to take down the blinds in our kitchen and bedrooms and rinse them off, since they aren't too bad.
About the bats - growing up our house had cracks in the chimney, and bats would crawl in and get stuck in between my bedroom ceiling and the roof. All night long I'd hear the little noises they'd make, hoping and praying that they wouldn't somehow get out and start flying around in my room. I've had to swat down and remove bats during the evening many, many times.
P.S. That hole in the chimney is finally plugged but I haven't lived there in 10 years! :(
Reminds me of my bat story. At least you found yours in daylight
i actually might die, bats freak me out that much.
(e:chicoschica) has a good bat story, you'll have to ask her about it sometime, (e:libertad).
I'm a slob at heart and would not really be inclined to clean mini-blinds, but chica keeps me on the straight and narrow. The fastest way I've found to clean mini-blinds is to take them down, throw them in the bottom of the tub/shower and spray the hell out of them with the shower hose. If no hose, the shower might work too, but admittedly probably not as convenient.
Of course the tradeoff is you have to clean the tub at the end, but if you have lots of blinds, it's a relatively good tradeoff.