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[pensnest]

Tuesday, I got a clean house. Well, the upper half. Two Merry Maids (!) came in and hoovered the ceilings, etc.

When it was time to pay them, I found that my handbag was not in the house. Cue panic! Mercifully, Tesco's had it and its contents safe and sound. Must have left it on the trolley when I went shopping on Monday evening.

Another good rehearsal, really, the men are actually *learning* this stuff! Of course, they will forget it over Christmas, but still, it's a promising start.

Speaking of Christmas, if anyone hasn't bought cards already, let me recommend this site!. The 'Shepherds' one is brilliant, and if I weren't making my own I would buy these and send them to all of you!

Slight woefulness for my adored Lance, who didn't quite make it to the very top. *pouts* I didn't think it was a great idea to do a hip hop freestyle, although I admit I was expecting something a bit more dazzling, but never mind. At least the terrifying rollercoaster is over! Dear me, it was much easier with Joey, I hardly worried about him at all.

Anyway, I shall replay last week's wonderful DWTS file in its entirety, many times, and it will make me happy, just as the barefoot rumba will continue to make me happy, and the jive, and both cha chas, etc. We have footage of Lance, dancing and being generally awesome. Let's hope it leads to more good things for him, just as being on DWTS did for Joey.

Yesterday, two engineers from British Gas showed up to check our boiler, to their mutual surprise. We let the one who got here first get on with it! The boiler still makes vacuum-cleaner noises, though these have muted slightly since the last engineer cleaned out the filter. It's very strange.

Beast is WoWing constantly. He is nearly at level 80, so he'll be able to raid soon. Like I care. Well, it keeps him happy.

And now, I must make sure I know what the ladies are doing at their rehearsal tonight.

Comments

[sperrywink]

Ahahaha, boiler guys are not having a good week! Withdiamond's showed up at the wrong house and you get multiples! Ahahahaha!

Thanks for the link to the cards! They are awesome. I really like the wise men one, myself.

[pensnest]

I suppose double the service is way better than none - which would be the expected complaint!

The cards are excellent, aren't they!

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

Yikes on the handbag front! That must have been such a relief to find it again!

[pensnest]

Oh, dear me, yes. That horrible sinking feeling when you realise... and I was in the car, trying to remember exactly what was in there, wondering if we might find the bag itself dumped in a bin somewhere. (That happened years ago, when my bag was stolen - it was found, complete but for the cash, but I'd already cancelled the cards by then.)

I was so relieved when I saw it in the security office!

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

I want Merry Maids to come and clean my home too! (Especially the windows wich I hate to do myself.)

What a scare! I'm happy to hear you got it back AND with the content intact too.

A boiler who sounds like a vacuum cleaner? That is indeed very strange and also a bit hilarious. It makes me try and think of other household appliances and what they could sound like. A mixer that sounds like a washing machine? A fridge that sounds like a boiler? The possibilities are endless :-)

[pensnest]

I must say it is nice to have clean windows. I hate cleaning windows - it never seems to work properly and I just get hot and bothered and grumpy.

The boiler seems to be a puzzle to every one of the engineers so far. Ho hum.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

The merry maids sound fantastic! A sparkly clean house with no effort has to be the way to go.

[pensnest]

It was a very good wheeze, I must say. The notion of cleaning my son's bedroom filled me with horror. It doesn't feel so bad if you're actually giving someone money to deal with the mega-warren of dust bunnies.

[rikes]

Yay for Merry Maids! It's a gift more people should give themselves and their families around christmastime. :)

I'm sure I'll be watching several of Lance's dances over and over again (jive, tango, mambo at least).

[pensnest]

Quite so! There are always better things to do than hoover my own ceilings. Of course, I *could* have waited until mid-December and got the brats to do them...

See popsoundboard if you fancy re-watching some of Lance's dances now.