Oh. Huh.

IT LITERALLY MAKES ME CRY EVERY WEEK. (The midwives, I mean.)

Yeah.

When you stay in a hotel for more than 1 day, how often do you allow housekeeping to clean your room?

I let them in every day to do stuff like empty the garbage and resupply toilet paper and make the bed, but I don't have them change towels or sheets.

If I'm staying with more than one person, we tend to change out towels more frequently because all hotel towels look alike and there are never enough places to dry them.

Our lemon tree broke last week. A large branch became too laden and cracked. Now I'm scrambling to use up lemons. I just preserved several, but still have probably 10 lbs of lemons to go.

I think I'll just take them to work and let others take them if they wish. My hands hurt from the lemon juice.

Why would you not let housekeeping in every day? I've never thought about that--they come in however often the hotel says--that's usually at least once a day, more if you're in a mint on the pillow place.

I rarely stay anywhere long enough that I give the hand signal for new towels, but cleaning, making beds, etc? It would never occur to me to reduce it, unless there was some reason I wanted them not in the whole time--but even then, it's not much of a security ploy--I figure that the institution has access to my room any time I'm not there.

Great. Gotta drop my laptop off to be serviced for, like, A DAY. I don't look forward to the separation, but then again--what is my damage? I spent all day shutting down devices that checked my email--I had to turn it off in four different places. The internet isn't going anywhere, just the one devices.

My theory about hotel rooms is that they are intentionally designed to look messy the second you arrive. Similarly hotel towels can't get dry enough for me to use the next day. These days, thogh, I can't recall a hotel replacing the sheets during a stay.

I love the midwives: despite the occasional tragedy, I find it far more soothing than most of my other tv.

It's been an exhausting weekend: family in town, lots of functions, and I picked up an upset stomach at some point in the last 24 hours. So I begged off visiting my folks this afternoon and lay down for a nap, followed by a glass of ginger beer. Not sure it's helped.

This week will involve: a site visit, two doctor's appointments for my mother, and two interviews (one of them with possibly six people!). I'm exhausted pre-emptively.

I really think Call The Midwife might be my favorite show right now.

Also, one time at a hotel, I had to work all day in the room(signed up to go to a conference, got a last-minute deadline), so I got room service and put the Do Not Disturb sign up, and eventually they called to get their tray back.

I'm exhausted pre-emptively.

As you should be!