[Lippy]

It's dialogue from an ad for Fandango, the movie reservation service.

[omnivorette]

God bless you. Now is there anyone else who thinks it's wonderful and funny? I mean that ad. The fake Bollywood with the paperbag puppets?

I have taken to calling Eyebrows "Chittra My Queen" on occasion.

[Wilfrid1]

I've seen the fandango promotions. I maybe don't pay enough attention.

[omnivorette]

Okay this one is brilliantly funny. It's two paperbag puppets, clearly Indian, singing a la Bollywood.

That whole ad is great.

[Orik]

It is most certainly the best Fandango ad.

[galleygirl]

(Warning; severly non-PC whine follows, read at your own risk.....)


My house is filthy!!!!!! And I have a cleaning lady come in every other week...Clearly, she thinks I'm a pushover, because all she does is organize things, and push the dirt around...

I discovered this when I started cleaning the backroom(former cats' room) to orgnize as a studio for painting furniture...have always felt bad that the floors in there, esp. in the corners, have that skim of "mud" from kitty litter, you guys with cats know what i mean...but, gasp!!!!_ when I actually got down there with Fantastick and a sponge, I could get it all off...I discovered this in all the corners of my kitchen, too...

Sometimes I think I'm too egalitarian to employ domestic help, I always feel like I can't ask them to do things I won't do...But the whole point of getting someone else to clean is so my hands(weak link), don't get too tendinitis-ed to do the work that brings in the bread and buter...It seems that anything that requires elbow-grease, I still have to do, and she'll do upkeep....Am I a princess?

[Wilfrid1]

No, you're quite right. It's like paying a gardener who doesn't mow the lawn. I would either explain to her what she needs to do, or replace her.

[GG Mora]

galleygirl, on Nov 19 2004, 03:01 PM, said:

....Am I a princess?

Ummm...no. You have perfectly reasonable expectations that the person you pay to clean your house will (revolutionary notion here) actually clean it. Back when I could afford it (and now that I need it most I can't) I went through 2 cleaning gals before deciding it was a service that worked only in theory. I even tried to retrain them, and kept each of them around for better than a year. But when I'm paying someone to clean my house, I shouldn't be the one scraping the accumulated crud out of the corners of the kitchen floor and vacuuming cobwebs off the ceiling.

indeed.

[Lippy]

omnivorette, on Nov 18 2004, 04:10 PM, said:

I have taken to calling Eyebrows "Chittra My Queen" on occasion.

I'd have thought that's what he'd call you.

[GG Mora]

Wilfrid, on Nov 19 2004, 03:12 PM, said:

It's like paying a gardener who doesn't mow the lawn.

Yes, or paying your lawyer to spend his time on some infernal food website.

[galleygirl]

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No, you're quite right.  It's like paying a gardener who doesn't mow the lawn.  I would either explain to her what she needs to do, or replace her.

Well, the other part of the problem is, she used to partner with a woman who she "inherited" me from, probably because i was easy...The other woman was the one who said the floors could never get clean because of the cats...of course, the other woman was the translater for this woman, who speaks only slightly better English than i speak Portuguese...of course, i can make myself understood in broad strokes, but aside from pointing to the corners,I'm kind of at a loss...And even the pointing doesn't explain, "I can get down on my hands and knees and get this clean, so I hope that you'll keep it up, or do it, in the future"...

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Back when I could afford it (and now that I need it most I can't) I went through 2 cleaning gals before deciding it was a service that worked only in theory. I even tried to retrain them, and kept each of them around for better than a year. But when I'm paying someone to clean my house, I shouldn't be the one scraping the accumulated crud out of the corners of the kitchen floor and vacuuming cobwebs off the ceiling.

And, of course, I can't quite afford it now, either, but it's still cheaper than physical therapy on my hands...And the thing that really gets me is, the crud I'm scraping out of the corners has accumulated on her watch.....

[Orik]

GG Mora, on Nov 19 2004, 03:17 PM, said:

I went through 2 cleaning gals before deciding it was a service that worked only in theory.

Only 2?

Took us 5 of them. Including one that did an amazing job the first time but then switched to watching daytime soaps. The one we have now is very good.

[galleygirl]

And, am I expecting too much if she's only bi-weekly?

[GG Mora]

galleygirl, on Nov 19 2004, 04:18 PM, said:

And, am I expecting too much if she's only bi-weekly?

Depends on how much crud you generate. As a single gal in a 1 BR house, I could get away with bi-weekly. These days, with husband, stepkids and behemoth domicile, it's a full-time job, regardless of who does it.

[galleygirl]

GG Mora, on Nov 19 2004, 05:36 PM, said:

galleygirl, on Nov 19 2004, 04:18 PM, said:

And, am I expecting too much if she's only bi-weekly?

Depends on how much crud you generate. As a single gal in a 1 BR house, I could get away with bi-weekly. These days, with husband, stepkids and behemoth domicile, it's a full-time job, regardless of who does it.

Well, my office is in my house, but that just gets a cursory floor mop, cuz she's afraid to go in there As for the rest, its two-bedroomish, and it looks a lot like the pic you posted on your Thanksgiving thread last year of your kitchen, all exposed, and, in my case, 100 years old, so when the going gets tough, the tough say, "Oh well, it's old, how clean can it get?" Which annoys me...But i do have lots of "stuff' around, but I'm at the Commodore's most weekends, so no wear and tear from that...i am down to one cat now, tho