Clean House

Today I did a new thing: I paid two total strangers to come in and clean my house.

It felt weird - actually, unless I was cleaning something myself at the same time, I felt like a jerk, because when I was a kid and my dad's business was going through a hard time, Mom used to clean houses and we kids would go along and help. So who am I to ask some hard-working soul to clean up my dust and mop my floor?

But it was worth it. I'll get used to it.

After the last 5 weeks of personal hurricane, I am so spent that when the housecleaners left, I was too tired to do anything but sit and vege. It took a frantic phone call from a friend whose water heater was spewing water all over her basement to get me off my duff.

I can't wait til I get the carpets done. I won't feel so smarmy about that.