A Job... Finally

So I saw an ad in the paper for a Housekeeper to work 4 1/2 hours Tuesdays and Fridays in Webster at $9/hour. I was so excited I printed up a resume and sent in my letter. The next day I got a response. Turns out she lives just down the road about 2 miles. She dropped off the application and I was interviewed the same day. She wasn't quite sure about me because I am so young but she liked that I have done so many different things. So the next day I was hired and I started work on Tuesday.
She is Brazilian and a little hard to understand but she shows me what to do and I do it. When people get to a certain age they start to want to do things their way and no other way. So my job is to clean her house in her way and to help motivate her to do cleaning to. My first day, the first thing I had to do was wash my hands before I started cleaning. First I soaped things down, then with another cloth I rinsed it and I did this several times to all the counters and the fridge. I even washed her fruits and vegetables, separately because they can't be washed together. She even has separate scrubbers for the fruits and for the vegetables. Then I moved on to organize her laundry room any way that made sense. And then I washed everything including a doorstop...? It was weird.
Today I was asked to clean the garage. It was most interesting, I took a shop-vac and vacuumed all the edges and the floor. The floor of the garage...? She wasn't satisfied with the work the shop-vac did so I re-vacuumed with an old upright house vacuum. And then I reorganized the shoes. When I had to sweep first I used the broom to sweep the corners, then I vacuumed, then I Swifer-ed, then I swept and finally I mopped. It was the strangest thing.
I'm working all this week to help her catch up on her spring cleaning. It will be interesting to see what she has in store for me tomorrow.

Ode To My Cookie

Oh my little Cookie, dear. You are so cute and fuzzy and you do such funny things. The way you eat out of my hands brings such a smile to my face. When you run, your little face goes so slick and cute, I can't help but to watch. You do such wonderful things, yet I still miss having a dog.
Oh my only dear pet, why are you not more like my dear sweet Missy? You greet me sometimes when I come home like Missy did, but your copycat tricks don't fool me. You are still just a little rodent. You make noise when you run that make me lie awake late at night. Your little body and quick mind helps you to escape your cage to give me a fright. Why don't you give me more comfort? But then again you are just a small little hamster. You are my little hamster. My Cookie.

A Successful Dinner

For the past couple of days I have not been able to make a very good dinner. Something was always wrong with it. Didn't taste good, burnt, under cooked, not filling enough. So I decided to try something a little different. I made a chili corn bread casserole. At first I thought I made it wrong but it came out of the oven perfect and Greg loved it. I am very happy. If anybody out there has other good, quick, easy recipes, please feel free to send them to me.

A Birthday and A Wedding

So yesterday was my big brother Jacob's birthday. He turned the big 2 0 ! He's an adult now and it's really scary. He'll be leaving soon for Mesa, Arizona to serve a two year mission for the church. And boy am I going to miss him being around. We celebrated his birthday with best friend, Amy and Kerrianna (who was on the phone from Utah). We played games and went out to dinner. Then we went to a Wedding reception for one of our close friends from school.
Isaac was sealed to the beautiful Darleen in the Palmyra, New York temple. It made me think a lot about my own wedding and I'm counting down the months till we can get sealed together in the temple.

House Sitting

So from Saturday to Monday, Greg and I were house sitting for my neighbors. It was a lot of fun. We watched the two girls, the dog, the cat, the rabbit, and of course the house. It was a really easy job we helped with maintaining some of the house, we made sure they had food to eat, and we got them ready and went to church.
But things weren't always so easy. Some how we got the idea into our heads that it would be fun to tell scary stories. And all of a sudden the back door seemed to be very dark and the wind seemed to blow a tad bit harder. We scared ourselves silly. Greg even helped out by spooking the living day lights out of us when we were to scared to enter the dark lonely house. It was fun though it definitely made the weekend more interesting.
It was nice to be able to walk over to my house too. The girls and I would walk over and pick on the "Dumb-Dog-Jeffrey". And we thought it would be fun to use a soundboard of Arnold Schwarzenegger's voice to call Greg back at the house. We called him several times using different voices. Oh and the best part, when we got home we acted all cool and everything so Greg had no idea it was us. I even ran back to the house to grab something I left behind to make one more call and he still had no idea. It was Awesome!
All in all I think it was the best weekend I have had so far. And it still wasn't over, we took Amy home with us on Monday and she played and made cookies with us until Tuesday night. I super cleaned the house for spring and then we had visitors over. The family we were house sitting for came to see the apartment, pay us, and take their car back, and then Jake came over to play games with us. It was so much fun I've never had so many people come to say hi before.
It was a good week.

It's Been Awhile

So I haven't done anything of particular note these past couple of days. But today I think I should mention something that Greg and I have just recently gotten into.

So I HATE scary movies. I am highly effected by their scare tactics. I was scared of Jumangi and I wouldn't watch the 6th Sense until this past year and I had to go to the bathroom halfway through (that was a really bad idea). But now that I'm older and I don't have to go to bed alone in the dark anymore I decided to get The X-Files (season 1-9). I know it's kinda weird. But I figured that maybe the 90's special F-X and watching them in the daylight would make me less scared. But Greg and I, being the Sci-Fi Geeks we are have watched them every night for the past week in the complete dark. Oh and the the fact that the F-X are really obviously bad, doesn't change the fact that we are scared to go to the bathroom alone. So yeah that's been fun. And I highly recommend watching old scary movies with your special someone. I think it would bring you closer, literally.