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.
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