Speedy's Cafe - General Chat about anything you like!

[Carol the Dabbler]

My post actually DID say "beer" for a while, till I noticed what my autocorrect had done to "beet" and fixed it.

 

And for anyone still puzzled by swedes/rutabagas, they're a lot like turnips except with yellow flesh and a milder flavor.  Hope that helps!

[Pseudonym]

Ah good, now I feel like less of an idiot. I thought I just had beer on the brain or something! In fact, I could do with one right now to celebrate it finally being Friday evening!

[Carol the Dabbler]

Here's a knife for you to open it with. Just be careful of your fingers. ;)

[Pseudonym]

Oh thanks! Wait... *remembers all the horror stories* No, actually no, I'll go get my bottle opener. 

[Pseudonym]

The fact he is so chilled about almost drinking an eyeball makes me wonder if he's ever accidentally eaten one of his, uh, samples. I can imagine him being the sort of person who only half pays attention to what he's eating. Comes home from a long, long case with no sleep, is zombified, absently opens the fridge, takes out a plate of meat Mrs Hudson may have left, starts munching... only to realise it's a half cooked experiment. 

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Yecch! But I'll bet you're right.

[Pseudonym]

You know that scene in period dramas, where someone coughs and there's a dramatic reveal that their handkerchief is bloody and they secretly have consumption? That's what just happened to me... apparently eating mini-shredded wheats dry causes TB. 

 

Also does anyone else feel the same level of passionate hatred at this ad as I do? I hate everything about it, the music, the psychedelic imagery, everything.

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Uh.  Well now I know what that guy from Monty Python is doing these days....

[T.o.b.y]

The fact he is so chilled about almost drinking an eyeball makes me wonder if he's ever accidentally eaten one of his, uh, samples. I can imagine him being the sort of person who only half pays attention to what he's eating. Comes home from a long, long case with no sleep, is zombified, absently opens the fridge, takes out a plate of meat Mrs Hudson may have left, starts munching... only to realise it's a half cooked experiment.

 

:-D I bet! Do you write fan fic? I kind of like your way of thinking...

[Arcadia]

You know that scene in period dramas, where someone coughs and there's a dramatic reveal that their handkerchief is bloody and they secretly have consumption? That's what just happened to me... apparently eating mini-shredded wheats dry causes TB. 

 

Also does anyone else feel the same level of passionate hatred at this ad as I do? I hate everything about it, the music, the psychedelic imagery, everything.

 

 

I find it rather ... mesmerizing ... :p

[Pseudonym]

Noooooooo!

[Arcadia]

Bwahhahaaahahaaaa.....

[Pseudonym]

So I remember mentioning a while ago on this here forum my irrational fear of finding a spider in my over the ear headphones, and how I have to carefully check them every time to make sure there's nothing hiding. It's stupid and illogical. Except... apparently it's not. THANK F**K I'm neurotic enough that I checked. 

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Spider bite on the ear could be pretty nasty. Do you have brown recluses over there? They like to hide in things (thus the name), and a bite from one could make your whole ear (the exterior part, I mean) kind of rot away.

 

It'd probably grow back eventually, though.

[Pseudonym]

Ew no. We have fake widows, their bites can be necrotising, but I think this was a fairly run of the mill 'safe' spider. I still don't want it in my ear though!

[Arcadia]

Oh Carol, how reassuring. :d

[Van Buren Supernova]

Good God. No wonder you turned out the way you did. :P

Wha... what.. like what?

Resourceful? Dynamic? Enigmatic? Late? :p

 

Spider bite on the ear could be pretty nasty. Do you have brown recluses over there? They like to hide in things (thus the name), and a bite from one could make your whole ear (the exterior part, I mean) kind of rot away.

 

Ro... ro.. rot away??? :blanket:

 

 

I ran face first into spider webs when tidying up part of garden. Twice. And they didn't break, because they were made by big ass spiders, I guess around three inches. Killed one with insect spray and let the other one live because it went into hiding.

Also a 8 inches centipede walked casually in my office yesterday morning, quickly ran out to grab a broom, and voila it's nowhere to be seen when I was back five seconds later. My office is quite attractive to wildlife, previously we had 4 feet snake paying visit.

 

It'd probably grow back eventually, though.

It does??

 

 

Anyway, long story about freak:

Put in spoiler box so Sherlock could say it's voluntary death by boredoom and not intentional malice.

 

 

 

So my brother family and mom are coming to visit. I'm staying in two story house with quite a number of bedrooms and bathrooms (eventhough it's small house, I guess the previous owner just like to have guests). Most of the time, I only regularly clean what I'm using, which is one bedroom, one bathroom and common areas, and those are already a lot of works.

 

With their visit, extra rooms will be used. Because most of the rooms have little or no furnitures they are actually easy enough to clean all by myself, if only I have spare day and if only I'm not prone to backpain (and ass pain too, ever since I turned 30 it's a combo XD). So all in all I decide to try cleaning apps.

 

It's recommended by family member, it's an apps offering various services like transport, delivery, home massage, mechanic, and something like cleaning service. The price range is medium, so I gave it a try. Since they charge by number of rooms, I only placed order for them to clean those I neglected and decided to do the regular ones myself to keep me busy when they are around.

 

And argh! Beside 40 minutes late (one of my pet peeves) they didn't even have vacuum cleaner (I chose the one with tools from them, and had read review that it's one of their tools. It's so basic anyway.) But no! According to them, the standard in this area is still without that. (Huh?) So what they had were couple of rags (they didn't even bring broom and I needed to supply it), bottles of unknown cleaning kits, wiper and some other basic stuffs.

 

I actually quite 'enjoy' cleaning because it gives me a peace in mind knowing whether it's properly done. The problem is, I could be quite an OCD clean freak without the time to maintain my standard. My place is reasonably clean most time but I only feel totally in peace everytime I do the rare thorough cleaning. So by using professional cleaner, I hope they deliver close enough to what I want. But no!

 

They only did ordinary quality cleaning which I could do in far less time with much better result. They didn't deep scrub porcelain sanitary stuff, anything that can't be clean with basic solution remains. They didn't do the thorough one way wipe to prevent residue left behind. The dead bug on the side of the cabinet remained there means they missed a lot of areas. They didn't move the furnitures much to clean what was underneath. The plus, they put extra effort by also cleaned some areas that were not in their contract as goodwill. It's very standard service that is unfortunately, not what I'm hoping for. Basically I think they are just nice people who don't really know how to do proper cleaning but think they do. Sniff.

 

Beside other similar comments, someone specifically calls me Monk (as in Andrian Monk), not for the smart, but for the frequent dysfunctional ocd reaction with strangers who invade my personal space and place (because most people are nasty XD) so I had to clean the area they stepped on once they left eventhough they cleaned on the way out. (I know I know..Freak! :p)

 

And like an overbearing mother-in-law, I actually re-clean again what they did later that afternoon and day after, although what I did was just 'better basic cleaning' and avoid going to deep cleaning because I didn't have the time. So it's almost a waste of money although they gave me something better to start with.

Anyway, deleted the apps, won't be using it again.

Just need to find very good AI cleaner that knows and does exactly what I want and has electrocution ability for intruders and pests. That would be neat.

 

Freak much? Not fun actually. I wish there are OCD cleaning company who caters for Ocds that I could afford once in blue moon.

 

How is your chores management? Anyone has frustation story too? Did I sound like a freak? :(

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

My housemate and I once tried hiring a cleaning service. We figured we'd have them come in once a month and clean behind the appliances, under the couch, etc. Of course we had to tidy up before they came (because otherwise they'd presumably have to start by putting things where *they* thought they belonged). Which was a nuisance, but at least that meant we had to tidy up once a month, so not a total loss.

 

But their idea of a thorough once-a-month cleaning was an awful lot like my idea of normal everyday cleaning -- like they'd wash any dishes we happened to leave in the sink. Big deal -- even I can do that!

 

The last straw was the time that obviously one gal had done a pretty good job of scrubbing the bathtub (again, something even I could have done) -- and after that, another gal had dumped her filthy mop water into the tub! And didn't even rinse it afterwards. We cancelled them pretty quick after that.

[Pseudonym]

My house is in desperate need of a clean and tidy at the moment, but by the time I stumble through the door in the evening I don't have the energy to move. I keep planning to do a mega clean on a weekend, but invariably it seems something will pop up and I don't have the chance. I think I'm going to give myself an evening off tonight, so hopefully I'll actually have the energy to get it done, but with how drained I am constantly at the moment it might not happen. 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Cleaning? What is this cleaning you're talking about? I'm creative and my house shows it. Need to work on the clutter so a proper clean can happen.

[Fantasy Lover]

Oh, man. I remember the struggle of my mom when she tried to find a decent cleaning service, most of them were foreign and afraid of my mom's dog, and some of them did the dishes. I'm glad she finally found someone decent.

[Carol the Dabbler]

I rather suspect that my housemate and I would have been better off looking for a man who offered "heavy cleaning." If there still was such a thing by then.

[Arcadia]

Okay, you gals are not very encouraging ... I've been thinking of hiring someone to clean my mom's house, but it sounds like I'm not going to be very happy with the results. Agggh! I really can't keep up the standard of cleanliness I want by myself anymore, but if I'm just going to be redoing what someone else has done ....

[T.o.b.y]

:-D Lower your standards, I would say. I have gotten to a point where "not positively filthy" looks clean to me. (I do all my own cleaning - or rather, don't).

[Pseudonym]

There have to be some decent ones out there, might be worth giving it a go until you find one you're happy with.