smonster, I am So glad your are starting to hopefully feel better!
Love you, doll!
Xander: We just saw the zebras mating! Thank you, very exciting... Willow: It was like the Heimlich, with stripes!
'Him'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Strix - Oct 22, 2012 6:08:53 pm PDT #21687 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
smonster - Oct 22, 2012 6:10:56 pm PDT #21688 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Zen, check Yelp? Or Angie's List, but I think you have to pay. BTW, don't need a call tomorrow.
Love you too, Strix. Hope things are going better for you lately.
meara - Oct 22, 2012 6:16:10 pm PDT #21689 of 30001
Yeah, I looked at Yelp and Angie's List. I keep thinking I need to switch services--I use a green service, which I'm not fixated on, but like in theory. But it's $125 for once a month, plus I tip. Should I not tip? I was surprised to see people saying elsewhere that they didn't. I figured if you work for a service you don't make nearly as much, so I give her $20 every time (we mostly have the same lady, though a few times someone else)
Strix - Oct 22, 2012 6:19:43 pm PDT #21690 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
They are, smonster, love. Went through a Black Dog/2 week really awful illness/ then chronic back and shoulder pain, but I am really to kick ass and take names!
Stoopid brain chem. I hates it, but I get a little better each time, so I pick myself off, dust myself off, make amends and determine to make the best out it in being honest with myself and those who I have impacted.
Nuff said.
(We need to have a skype drink-sesh soon, chica!)
Pix - Oct 22, 2012 6:24:26 pm PDT #21691 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
I always tip. I know the cleaning ladies don't make much after the company takes its overhead, so I like to acknowledge their work. I don't usually tip 20%, though--usually between $10-$15 per visit.
Stephanie - Oct 22, 2012 6:24:30 pm PDT #21692 of 30001
Trust my rage
In my case, I overheard a woman in a restaurant talking about her amazing cleaners and I asked for their number. I really lucked out because they are detailed, neat, and willing to do extras. I like Angues list but I heard they are now owned by some right wing group that supports Rush Limbaugh so I pulled my membership.
Zenkitty - Oct 22, 2012 6:25:14 pm PDT #21693 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Glad you're feeling better, Strix!
meara, I used to tip $20 too. Like you, I figured that working for a service company, they weren't making that much.
I don't really wanna join Angie's List again. Maybe I'll try Yelp.
Scrappy - Oct 22, 2012 8:01:15 pm PDT #21694 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Our ladies charge $65 per visit every two weeks. We don't tip except at Christmas, since they work for themselves. We used to live next door to one of them, and totally like her and her husband.
Shir - Oct 23, 2012 12:29:22 am PDT #21695 of 30001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I'm skipping to bring you the next anecdote: I had a minor medical procedure done this morning, making sure my naevi are nothing more than naevi (something I'm doing every 4-5 years).
My father's idea of encouragement was to say "don't worry. Your grandfather and his father had melanoma, but it's not the thing that killed them".
Explaining the funnies: he's right, it was other things, only in the Israeli context the subtext would be "Nazi Germany did".
omnis_audis - Oct 23, 2012 5:56:09 am PDT #21696 of 30001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
glad to hear your naevi are behaving! Love the dark humor.
As for me. Ugg. Don't want to get out of bed. Blah. Must go to work. Yesterday it felt like I was working on 10 things at once. It really drains the mental reserves when you are running all over campus trying to fix/figure out a dozen things.