[E] Weekend Update

I did my monthly spring cleaning with the help of my mighty-mop. 80% of the ‘outcomes’ were my hair!  i need help~ and oh, i won’t be needing a big house. to clean a small apartment has already gave ... apartment to a double-storey house in Kajang. Know what? The new house’s rental fee is RM350 per month! it’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 04:02:05

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House "Cleaning"

One of the seemingly attractive things in China is that it's relatively inexpensive to hire people to do service work like cleaning ... in our temporary apartment, the new house we're moving into, and even good hotels like the Grand Hyatt has been pretty uniformly poor. According to Michelle, who has been in the apartment while housekeeping [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 10:55:16

A Triumphant Weekend

Travis and I had a pretty successful weekend. Saturday, he worked and I helped Rachel move apartments after her foreclosure fiasco ... and cleaning the house. I was mad to find that part of that cleaning involved wiping up a puddle of cat piss ... done it yet. Rachel recommended throwing away the rug on which Bella keeps eliminating waste [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 16:56:00

Cleaning house

Today I did something that I haven’t done in (literally) months: clean house!  Three hours of hard work by me and Mike has gotten the apartment from “good Lord, these people ... , being generally much more interested in my current projects than in cleaning up after old ones [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 04:29:35

Cleaning

I’ve been cleaning the house for a week. Dishes one night. Laundry another. I know if I just buckled down and did it, I’d have it done in a day ... t clean without music. Better take a break.” Get some willpower Erin. Just clean the dang apartment [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 18:44:09

Quick (?) note re my recovery progress

I've been hesitant to blog too much about my 2 broken wrists for fear of boring everyone & because it seems a low priority with a war going on ... with assorted idiots, I finally got a home health aide yesterday. She'll be cleaning house & helping me shower ... when sleeping or out of the apartment, for protection). I have a gorgeous "Frankenstein [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 22:38:00

a beautiful sight.

Jump to Comments My friend BurghBaby has organized a show off your Christmas Crazy link-a-thon at her site, ... and then cleaning the house. Yeah. We’re crazy. Our routine in the old apartment was pretty set, after ... had to make some adaptations — different size porch, upstairs windows that need some kind of decorations [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 05:38:11

Tulsa part 2

Well, I got the fox’s back legs skinned in Patton’s garage ... let us handle her . I was very sad to leave. My Aunt Lorraine had given me some draperies ... : hanging them. Sage’s apartment is just like home. As I was cleaning out the house in Tulsa [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 05:57:36

I Love it When The Lord Points the Way!

If there's one thing I know, it's that The Lord sent me here to help others. I know I mentioned that I was going to surprise William by cleaning his apartment for him. While he does have a house cleaner come in every two weeks, there is no way a man can pay for a woman's [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 00:02:00

I Have a Dream

Today, we honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr ... will one day not tear the house apart minutes after I have finished cleaning it and that a floor [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 16:22:00

The Original Mr. Clean Has Made His Final Walk Into the Sunset

House Peters Jr., the actor who played the original Mr ... onto the scene in 1958 as the new mascot behind Procter & Gamble's message of household cleanliness ... . I am not one for cleaning, and as I take a look around my apartment, I think that I am characteristically unsuited [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 18:06:42

The only thing we have is fear....

I'm back from getting coffee and stopping by my parents' house to pick up the documentation for my new cell phone ... to do. I am wroking off some of my anxiety cleaning my apartment. It's useful, cathartic ... !) about a reporter at the Independent News Service who, in the course of covering Chicago homicides, often uncovers [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 16:40:00

Spring Cooking Program

La Tavola Marche has created a deliciously unforgettable holiday! ... , tile floors, exposed stone & cozy fireplaces!Includes~Dinners (at La Tavola Marche with house wine ... !~ Aperitivo served in every evening in the garden~Apartment rental for 7 nights accomodations (cleaning [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 12:51:00

Good Questions: How to Really Remove Pet Odors From Furniture?

"Dear Apartment Therapy, It being Pet Month, ... plain water. We don't recommend steam cleaning if there is any chance urine is the cause of the smell ... housed within. Then we'd thoroughly vacuum the upholstery using a HEPA vacuum, followed by a thorough [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 00:10:00

Egyptian Slave Freed From Slavery... In America

Shocking story this week about an Egyptian girl kept enslaved as a house maid for three years by a rich Egyptian family... in the US ... in their Cairo apartment, and soon after as a "maid" in their California home. Her duties forced her to awake before dawn and work until past midnight, cleaning the luxurious five-bedroom mansion [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 05:24:00

Business idea 11. House cleaning service

Description of Job • Clean, vacuum, and neaten homes or apartments. • Carry out other services as requested by the client. • Perform turnover cleaning of rental properties. The Need Most of us, unless we live in a hotel (or in a dorm room and don’t care), are responsible for cleaning our house or apartment [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 13:52:51

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