Not too long ago, I read a post on Facebook about cleaning before the maid came to clean. I could identify with Sheena's post and, based on the comments, it seemed that a lot of other people could too. Now it isn't like I clean the windows or vacuum or anything before she comes, but I figure I need to try to get a lot of the clutter put away. How well can she really clean if I have things out that she needs to clean around? Nice to know that in cleaning for the maid I am not alone. I do have some issues though. I haven't found anyone who can clean things right.
"Wow!" is what I know you are thinking. What an incredibly together person this Kathryn is to have things so perfect that no one else can reach those standards. Yeah, not even close. I can be completely unbothered by an inch of dust on the bookshelves or some other thing that you would think would annoy me. It is in the little things. See this picture of how the canisters were put back after the kitchen was cleaned today?
I know, you are wondering what it is about them. Is it the missing wooden spoon? Nope. I broke that long ago. Could it be the pill container sitting on the tall canister? No. That's where I like it. Is it that they are not evenly spaced with the fronts centered? Kind of. The brown sugar canister (the one without the spoon) should be centered under the outlet as shown in the picture below. THAT is the correct way for it to be.
I have many, many little "things" like this. I know they are things that shouldn't matter and they really don't. If Rob were to clean the kitchen and have the canisters back incorrectly, that would be okay because it would be thoughtful of his to have cleaned. If I have them back the wrong way, that's okay because it means that I was in a hurry or preoccupied. If my main focus was cleaning though, I would do it the correct way. So having someone come in to clean and then not do things "right" bothers me. It primarily bothers me that I notice it and want to (and often do) fix it. I think that I am jealous that I don't have the opportunity to give a cleaning task my undivided attention the way I would if I were my own maid. Hmmm... there's an idea.
Now Rob is probably just shaking his head if he reads this. He is wonderful and encourages me to have someone help with the house to take some of the load off of me. Guess he will think this just proves that no one can do anything right and make me happy. That isn't true. I was always in a great mood in Japan after Bimala had cleaned our place. She didn't always get the spacing of items on the bookshelves quite right. I noticed, but I was able to move on.
Oh. Yes, Mom, I am taking my zoloft. :) See how well adjusted I am to notice these kinds of things and be able to deal with them?
