Gab’s Life

Ok, here we are again discussing my "muchacha" and the interesting moments I have because a complete stranger lives with me and cleans my house.

Our apartment has a sit in kitchen and a separate dining room.  I am more of a kitchen type person (read: too lazy to get out the placemats).  If we eat in the kitchen as opposed to the dining room, the maid stays in the kitchen with us.  I have told her she doesn’t need to, but apparently she wants to and I don’t have the heart to tell her to leave. 

But, she just stands there and watches us eat.  I feel like I can’t relax or have normal conversations with my kids even though she doesn’t speak English.  I’ve gotten to the point of getting out the placemats when Guapo is home, but when he’s not I feel too bad not eating in the kitchen.  I think maybe she’s lonely. I don’t know.  But it still bugs me!

Ok, that was my vent.  To assuage my guilt for venting online about a very nice girl, I will share a funny muchacha moment from Small Town.  In Small Town I had a maid that came 3 mornings a week and she was a delightful lady that I got along with well.

One day I came home and the house reeked of bug spray.  This lady was really good at finding ants nests (ewww, huge ants, I get the shivers just thinking about them) and she was kind enough to take care of the problem for me.  So, anyway, I go into the house and the smell is overwhelming.  I was thinking I had better get Juan Carlos out of the house before he dies.  So I ask her if she found a nest and she replies, "No, you were out of Lysol."  So I say, "We were out of Lysol AND you found some bugs?" "No, you were just out of Lysol and the bathroom smelled (home of the kitty littler box), so I used the bug spray instead." 

I never did figure out her thought process there.  "Hmmm, lets douse the place with a poisonous spray so we can’t smell the cat box."  Luckily the cats (and the kids) survived the massive fumigation.

(Hey, I posted this over at my Blogger site too.  Could somebody who hasn’t switched to beta see if you can leave a normal comment (not signing in as "other")?  Thanks.  I’m still torn between which one to go with.  I am missing the little pictures (even No Cool Story’s "O So Happy" Scary Girl).)