I’m going to fire my dogwalker tomorrow. For the past six months-year, she’s been coming very late; so late that she often gets there after I get home. And even on nights when I’ve gone out after work.
It’s always something; car broke down, locked out of car, ill relative, weather, running late. I’ve spoken to her several times about this, but last night was the final straw. She called me at 8:30 (I’ve asked her to call if she’ll be later than 7) and left a message that she probably wouldn’t be there before 9:15 because she’d locked her keys in the car. By the time I got the message, it was already 9:30, so I assumed she’d just gone ahead and walked Junebug anyhow.
She hadn’t. When I got home at 10, the lights were out, the leash was where I had left it that morning, and the poor dog was practically knocking down the door to get out.
Junebug loves her. But what am I paying her for, if she walks my dog only moments before I arrive home anyhow?
The apartment is 98% clutter-free and 99% in good repair. It’s amaaaazing how different it is to have the place look nice and neat. I’m even keeping it that way, now that I’ve gotten it there, which astonishes me. And now that it’s neat, it doesn’t take long at all to clean. Pictures on the weekend, when I actually have everything finished.
I’ve also signed a contract with a realtor, and the open house will be a week from Sunday. I’m hoping I get an offer that day, so I have minimal disruption in my life. For one thing, Junebug will have to be farmed out while people are coming in to look at it.
I’m also back at work, at the place I’d been working at before. They have a few last documents on the project I’d been working on to finish, since there had been some kind of problem with migrating old emails when the company was bought out. And this is where all the good stuff is, too.
Then, there’s another doc review starting up this week. This firm likes to keep people around who have institutional memory, so they don’t have to keep training people. Though they’ll get rid of you if you fail to grasp the concept that you can’t let privileged documents through the net.
Published at November 21, 2007
in Junebug.
When you don’t have time to post, take pictures of your dog.
Not only did I have a good run* this morning, but timely application of an icepack both when I first got home and then when I got to work has prevented my knee from stiffening up and refusing to bend!
One has to look for victories where one can.
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* Despite getting derailed almost from jump because Miss Thing decided that nothing would do but that she had to take a dump 30 seconds after I started, in spite of the fact that I’d been walking her around for 10 minutes prior to getting underway.
Published at August 4, 2007
in Junebug.
Someone hates the camera.
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