when real estate agents come to call
Seemaxrun has a birthday coming up. July 14th. It will be a whole year old. Yay!
It is amazing to me the site has been up almost a year. It is amazing more to me it is the size it is now.
Seemaxrun started out six pages on a template from Image Café. I was web dumb and no way could I design a site that looked good to me. I was web snobby and no way could I put up a site that did not look good to me. So --
It was first six pages with a fancy menu bar on an Image Café template to give me time to learn what I was doing. And then six pages with a fancy menu bar linked to free home pages I got from Earthlink where I practiced what I was doing. And then I thought I might have some grasp of what I was doing and moved the whole set up to one location where I made all the pages and graphics.
That is what you see now. The end result of a year long learning curve that to me was the glass mountain. Now it looks fancy. Well, at least to me it looks fancy. But in those first days? A back to top button was a major accomplishment for me and I am not kidding it took me five tries to get that back to top link just to work.
(This is where a friend who is a web genius and lept from the womb to the doctor's keyboard to fix up the doc's website snorts and says, "Wow, that took you a whole year?" Grrrrr.)
The day I knew it looked like I knew what I was doing was the day Kitty McKoon-Hennick and Katherine Lawrence, who both had been doing web pages forever, asked me about graphics and code. If people who knew what they were doing were asking me questions, I might be pulling something off. I still feel funny though saying I do web design. And when those web forms ask me what I do on the site, I never say web designer. Except on the insurance forms. Those insurance people want to know who designed it, who built it, who maintains it, who's in charge of security -- those insurance people are strict.
BUT!
Seemaxrun is going to be one year old July 14th. Yay! (It is maybe funny to celebrate a website's birthday but I don't care, it is special to me. I may even give away T-shirts.) Meanwhile --
Real estate agents are coming to call. Sometimes they bring clients. Sometimes they just "pop in" to "see the place." There is stuff I have to do every time someone just "pops in." It is not fun for me stuff because it is (oh the pain) housework. I started wondering the other day, too, why a woman who lives alone and spends all her time in an office should even have all this housework to do. (This was while I was scrubbing walls -- scrubbing walls ALWAYS makes me reflective.) I started wondering who was responsible, who was THE SOURCE OF ALL THIS HOUSEWORK? It couldn't be me. I live in the office. So this episode of thoughts is --
WHEN REAL ESTATE AGENTS COME TO CALL:
[ *note:
points are accrued for hardship level]
Empty ashtrays: 3 (culprit max)
Fabreeze carpets & fabrics: 3 (culprit max)
Clean tub: 10 (culprit max)
Swipe bathroom mirrors and sinks: 3 (culprit max)
Make bed: 5 (culprit usually max)
Dust: 5 (culprit god)
Bleach and flush toilets: 20 (culprit god -- you know it is true, you can leave those things untouched and still they get grimey)
Sweep up kitty litter in second bathroom: 10 (culprit jones)
Clean litter box: 25 (culprit jones)
Sweep up kitchen: 10 (culprit dolph & loke)
Clean paw prints off white kitchen floor: 10 (culprit dolph & loke)
Clean paw prints off white bathroom floor: 7 (culprit jones)
Clean paw prints off top of TV: 10 (culprit jones)
Clean paw prints off window ledges: 15 (culprit jones)
Rake carpet for pet fur: 50 (culprit dolph & loke & jones but jones sheds less so I'll make his score 25)
Carry bags of raked fur to trash: 7 (culprit dolph & loke & jones)
Wipe down glass sliding door to balcony: 20 (culprit dolph)
Wipe down glass regular door to balcony: 10 (culprit dolph)
Wipe down dog smudged walls: 50 (culprit loke)
(authorial intrusion alert: loke only smudges west walls so all east walls are clear -- natch though east is the glass doors dolph hits)
Fix blinds on sliding glass door to balcony: 5 (culprit dolph)
Fix blinds on main door to balcony: 5 (culprit dolph)
Scrub mystery spots on carpet: 20 (culprit usually Jones)
Stow stuffed toys: 3 (culprit dolph & loke & jones)
Stow dog beds: 3 (culprit dolph & loke)
FINAL SCORES: MAX : 24
GOD : 25
JONES : 122
DOLPH : 123
LOKE : 133
Jones almost won.
Jones weighs 7 pounds.
Loki weighs 80 pounds.
This is a physics dillemma to me: How can a 7 pound cat almost beat out an 80 pound dog generating housework?
God beat me too. Jeez.
So here I am, scrubbing my delicate manicure out of existence and the housework is cleaning up after, first, an 80 pound dog, second, a 65 pound dog, third, a 7 pound cat, and fourth, God who can weigh whatever he or she wants. And dead last is -- me.
Sheesh.
I am
changing my name to Cinderella.
Love and Kisses,
Your Cinderella Girl
PS: Please light candles for me so I don't go to hell for giving my dogs and cat higher scores than God on a test.
