MOPPING & SHOPPING

I had the day off and I actually got around to mopping the kitchen floor. My housekeeper fired me because " OSHA does not allow us to clean dog urine because it contaminates the equipment, and we have to buy all new equipment". This is after more than two years of coming biweekly and cleaning said dog urine off of the floor. This is the dog that had kidney cancer and could not control her urine.I mopped it up several times a day. In other words it was no new situation. She said that after I resolved the problem she would be happy to clean our home again. I wonder if I wrote her a letter and said "The problem is fixed the dog is dead." If she would then be willing to come clean again. Anyway, I decided to clean said floor. First I sweep it, then proceed with the mopping. I have one of those Swiffer type mops. I think it is called Ready Mop with disposable mop pads. Well I soon discover that it doesn't have any real dirt removing power. I had one of those Swedish mops that was supposed to have removable and replaceable mop heads. Well I finally got the mop head off, but I couldn't get the replaceable one back on. Apparently some plastic doohickey broke off and rendered the mop useless. Now to plan B.
Go to grocery store and buy a good old fashioned mop with a replaceable rag top. One that can screw onto a wooden handle with a hole with screw treads in it that will allow a mop top to screw on or screw off of the handle. Also some good old pine sol and a bucket. This was around 5:30 P.M. I grabbed my purse and got into the car. Look out Maceys (the grocery) here I come. Two hours later I come back with a mop, an extra mop top, and $100 of groceries. I bring them in for Raymond to put away and he was flummoxed. He had no idea I had even left the house. He thought I had been in the kitchen the whole time mopping the floor. After the groceries were put away, the dog fed and us fed, about 10:00 P.M. I finished the floor. That just goes to show much I am noticed around here!

Musings

Don't worry Wyo Sis you didn't scare Tabitha to death. She had been suffering from bladder cancer for almost two years. I had just started her on her third round of medicine about a month before , The vet was surprised she was still alive and doing so well. I don't think it was the cancer that killed her, more like a heart attack or a collapsed wind pipe or some such. anyway it was a double whammy.
Hey I know I am talking to myself. My husband, bless his heart, is about as talkative as a post.And he isn't much emotional help either. I think he has some form of an autistic type problem, that has gone untreated and unrecognized all of his life. It get lonely a lot. I hope in the next life he will be able to express emotions and comfort. The only thing we have in common is the gospel and intelligent minds. He is even a gasp DEMOCRAT and a UofU graduate. What was I thinking!
Work has go better this week. There isn't as much work to do and thing are more organized. All of the equipment, pots and pans and other items are out of the way and have found there new homes etc. Chaotic environments bring out the worst in me. I do not like things out of place at all. My house looks chaotic, but I know where things are and nobody is messing around in my space and moving things around. Even Raymond's "nest" of papers and shoes and other paraphernalia is OK because I have given up trying to get him to clean it up. It is his security blanket, and me trying to straighten it up really upsets him, so I just leave it.

THIS AND THAT

Hi you all. I have been reading your blogs and agreeing with you on most things. I certainly agree with Wyo sis and Alfs boy and hillbilly sis & their difficulties. I to am having trouble with a bad flare up of depression, even though I to am taking a heavy duty antidepressant, although I am beginning to wonder if maybe I need a stronger one. About a half hour after DSR visited me with the shoes ( I love them) my dog, Tabitha, the Sheltie that looked like Lassie, made a weird noise in the hall, and by the time I got there she was dead!. Two weeks later DT closed their doors for good. Since I was working at Morris center, the cafeteria that feeds the DT students, I ended up without the usual assignment of being a kitchen cook. I already knew that the center was closing and that all of us there would be reassigned and that we would all have jobs, which I do. I am still working there along with all the full time staff that was already there, but we are only making food for take-out. We had been making food all along for take out, but we had to do that along with our regular cooking duties to feed 3 meals a day to the little students. The only problem is now we have to do Morris centers take-out, and Cannon centers Take- out which makes the amount of food about 2-3 times as much as we usually had for take-out. Take-out is the on campus Deli type place where students can order food for ward activities for ward parties etc. It is also open to the public. I like doing it. especially since I am in salads instead of in Main dish(hot meals).We did however get a new manager and Chef. Our Chef and the MTCs Chef traded places. We got a new manager and our old manager moved up to the front office to work on our computer ordering program. This is the second move since Nov 1st for me. I wish they would have moved FF Lady and our Head cook also, but you can't have everything. There have been some growing pains and overall testiness the last few weeks. I am not taking kindly to some of the squabbling among the cooks, and such. Unfortunately I have not been at my best behavior lately, but the new manager and chef have told me I am doing good work and that they support me 100%. I just wish that support came with so responsibility like supervisor or something. I am tired of being the "pick up the pieces, and make everyone else look competent person" Sigh!
We have not been "Eminent domained" but the hospital is eying all the houses south of it between "Freedom" blvd and 500W as future real estate on which to expand their property. Since we are in the said area, we will eventually be bought out. The hospital has already bought up all the property west of us between 940-880. They are preparing to tear down all the houses that they own there and should be doing that fairly soon. They are building a parking lot there!. They already own the house next to us, but the neighbors that sold it to them are still living there. We and 34 other properties have all gotten together and jointly hired a Realtor to represent us and are in negotiation's with the hospital to buy our properties at one set price. Each property will get the same amount for their properties as the other one will. This is where we are at now. DH and I are looking to buy a condo or townhouse. Preferably one that is equipped for handicapped people and is especially in an area for people 50 and older. I have no idea when this sale will take place. With my luck It will be at Christmas time and we will be house looking and moving in the dead of winter.
#82 seems to developing into a fine athlete. How someone frim our clan ended up an athlete amazes me. It must come from his mother. Go Braves! Go #82. I can relate to Asher. How long is it till school is out. Those of us who work for schools,which seems to be the great majority of us. are always gearing up for new school years, or wishing for holidays or vacations or gearing down. We are always in a flux. For people like me who long for stability in life and peace and acceptance and rest, we somehow got in the wrong profession for that.
Hillbilly sis, maybe you need a different sleep medication. The doctor gave me one to try. I have held off until a week end to try it. I took a half of a pill last night (Fri) so that I could see how it worked on a day I did not have to get up and go to work. I didn't take it until 3:00 A.M. I woke up at 8:00 then I was so sleepy by 1:00 that I went back to bed and slept until 5:00 P.M. That didn't work, although I certainly slept well! back to the drawing board!