Want me fluff your pillow?

By now you should know that when I'm not pulling in tricks, I'm cleaning hotel rooms in the red-light district.  So per Jo's request, I've decided to share with you a few ways to make your housekeeper's life easier.  And if you've ever stayed more than one night in a hotel, making a housekeeper's life easier should be a priority.  After all, you are leaving me alone with your toothbrush and a toilet bowl!

10. It takes a housekeeper approximately 1 minute to strip, fluff, remake, fluff, and neatly replace a pillow on a bed.  A room with 2 beds has a total of 8 pillows in our hotel.  A housekeeper usually cleans a dozen rooms a day.  You do the math!  If you don't sleep with 8 pillows, do me the courtesy of sitting the unused pillows aside.

9. Put your trash in the waste baskets.  This may seem like a no-brainer, but as we all know, some people lack brains.  If you are staying another night, I will NOT throw away your trash unless it is obviously trash.  I once threw away a Macy's bag sitting next to a trash can.  It looked like trash!  The next day we were digging it out of the trash because the woman's brand new shoes were in the bottom of it.

8. Yes Jo, piling up your towels does make my life easier.  You can also hang and reuse your towels (most hotels acknowledge this as eco-friendly). Not using a towel is a plus.  Not using the shower... even better!

7. Bring a sleeping bag and sleep on the floor.  Okay!  I'm kidding.  Though I certainly wouldn't object to it.  But seriously... if you have a double room and only need one bed... don't trash the other bed.  Don't eat on it. Don't put your dirty shoes on it. Don't let your dog shit on it. Don't fuck on it. 

6. Keep your shit tidy.  Again, this may seem obvious... but alas.  Let me explain.  I don't want my feet tangled in your underwear while I'm trying to make your bed.  I don't enjoy dusting around your dildo.  And if I accidentally step on your laptop because it's buried beneath two pairs of jeans and hidden by the bed skirt... don't come bitching to me.  I'm there to make a bed, not psychically detect the electronics you tossed on the floor next to the used tampons!

5. Leave Fido at home!  Okay... that's not really fair. We used to travel with our dogs, they were family, I get it.  But there are guidelines for 'travel-worthy-pets'.  They should be potty-trained (duh!) and they shouldn't bark for 8 hours straight (you aren't the only guest in this hotel!).  That being said... don't let them eat the remote, groom them before hand, keep them off the furniture (except the beds you are sleeping on), kennel them when you're out, and for the love of everything holy... do not get them wet!!!  That smell cannot be removed.  It sticks in our vacuums for months!

4. Do NOT use the glasses provided for your convenience.  This is for both our sakes.  Let me make this easy for you.  It takes about 5 minutes to take the dirty glasses to my closet, get new ones (if any are clean), get new lids, return and place them neatly on the tray.  It takes 30 seconds to wipe them out with Windex!  'Nough said?  Thought so!

3.  Check out on time.  Better yet... check out early!  I know... You have a hangover, you don't know who the hooker is laying next to you, you've lost your pants, and you have to get the phone book to figure out which city you are in.  Unfortunately I have a job to do and all I care about is getting it done and going home.  I'd rather not wait around 3 hours doing nothing because your head hurts.  You can go quietly... or I can break out the 100-year-old vacuum that sounds like a 747!  Your choice!

2. Use your Do Not Disturb sign if you're staying.  This automatically relieves me of cleaning your room that day (provided you don't take it off before I leave work).  Worried the dead hooker chopped up in the trashcan might start to smell?  Need new towels because the others are soaked in blood?  Not a problem, simply let me know.  I'll be happy to dispose of the evidence in exchange for not having to clean your room.

1. This is by far the MOST important thing... TIP!  Yes... I know.  Money is tight in this economy.  But on average, I make $1.50 to clean your room if you're staying and $3.00 if you check out.  I know you tipped that ragamuffin whore $5 for bringing you a watered down drink made with cheap liquor, so the least you can do is drop a buck to the bitch who wipes down your fucking toilet seat and picks up the towel you wiped your crotch with!!

And with that being said... here's to anyone who prefers camping over a hotel and anyone who sleeps in their car because their too broke to afford a room!!  As for the rest of you... if Santa saw your hotel rooms he'd give your presents to me!!!

Day Off (continued)

Like I said... I sort of had a day off on Tuesday.  And while we had a great evening (despite the stupid meeting) it totally threw me off for Wednesday.  I was beat!  I didn't even get off the couch until 11 am (except to cater to the toddlers milk/food requests because she needs that shit or something!)

So yeah... did I get more spinach planted?  No...

did I get the laundry done?  No...

did I clean anything?  No...

     well...

          kinda...

I did clean out the craft cabinet and organize my art supplies then started to tackle the linen closet.  But considering this whole project took something like 10 hours, never got finished, and ultimately left a bigger mess than I had to start with... I'd say it's a fail for the day.

I didn't even feel like checking facebook!

(yeah, I thought about calling a doctor!)

Wednesday was just shot!

The accomplishment of the day was taking a bath!

*sigh*

But here my darling readers is the visual glimpse into Tuesday.  I wanted to post them with Tueday's post, but I had to wait until today to get the pic of me from my coworker.  Better late than never.

That's right... total HOTNESS!!

The hair could use a trim and new dye, but I'm holding off for a bit longer.

But seriously... does that look 30?  I don't think so.  I think they screwed up on my birth certificate!  The Queen is totally scandelous like that!  I'm sure there's a mistake because I do not FEEL 30!

And yes... I suppose I'll show off Prince Charming with his mini-helper!

Looks just like him doesn't she? 

 Acts like him too. 

Certainly doesn't have my charming personality! 

I keep trying to tell him he cheated on me and she's not really my kid, but he continues to deny this scenerio.

I was so looking forward to an easy day of work today, but some dumbass at the front desk decided 'we have empty rooms... we should sell them!'... What did that mean for housekeeping?  Instead of 60 rooms for 6 housekeepers with mostly stayovers... we ended up with 98 rooms with mostly due outs!  14 rooms each (thanks to laundry who filled in cleaning and spared us each 2 more rooms!)  It totally bit balls!

On the bright side... the boss complimented me today on my beds.  This is a woman who hands out compliments like they were gold bullion!  I can literally count the number of times she's complimented my work... on one hand!  Today she told me my beds were PERFECT!  Not good... not nice... PERFECT!  And not just one... ALL OF THEM!  I about fainted!  (It's seriously that rare!)  My conclusion... she must have got laid!

So here's hoping you all have a wonderful weekend.  After today, mine should be a cake walk!  The hotel is booked so the greedy bastards at front desk can't surprise us by selling more rooms (unless they start renting out the roof!).  So here's to people who leave the do not disturb sign up all day or only want towels tomorrow.  The rest of them are assholes!