u/Clover_Jane

I have a small- ish 1000 sq ft, and I hate cleaning, so I've been trying out various cleaners for the past 9 months. I hadn't been super happy with previous cleaners, and one of my clients recommended someone to me. She came to my house to do an estimate, and we talked about how I wanted a set day/time as that was a gripe I had with another cleaner. I want to know ahead of time so I can make sure things are put away that I don't want out, and to make their job easier. We set a day, and then right before, she tells me she needs to move it because some family stuff. Fine. I don't make a big deal about it. We moved it to today. When she first came, I did tell her that parking was on the street, and today she parked in my driveway. I live in a duplex and we have set parking spaces so my neighbor couldn't park in her spot because she parked in it. I didn't notice this on the camera till way later or I'd have asked her to move her car to the street. I've only met her once at this point and we've chatted only a handful of times via text. I'm a nail tech, so I don't really check my phone much while working as I am focusing on my clients, but I checked my phone quickly and saw a text from her that her daughter was done for the day at camp, and she was almost done with my house, and wanted to know if her husband could drop her daughter at my house. I was sort of flabbergasted. Like, I don't know you. What would make you think I would be ok with having your kid in my house? I'm barely comfortable having cleaners in my house but I do it, because I hate cleaning. Then my ring starts blowing up, and I see a man getting out of his car, and walking up to my house, and going up the stairs and he goes into my house!! Wtf? Again, I don't know you. Why tf would you think it's acceptable to let your husband in my house? He comes back out a few minutes later. I have no idea what he did in my house, but I do know I'm kind of pissed. I never responded to her text, and a while later she text again, and said never mind. Like I'm sorry, your child care issues are not my problem. If this was going to be a problem, maybe you shouldn't have accepted the job? And again, it's not like she's been my cleaner for years. And you moved my day, parked in my driveway when I told you to park on the street, wanted to have your child at my house, and did have your husband at my house. Obviously I paid her, but I haven't said anything about all this yet, because I'm really angry and I don't want to be rude, so I've been trying to calm down. I was honestly shaking when I saw her husband go in my house. Tf was she thinking? Am I crazy? Idek what to say to her but I'm kinda done with her. How would you fire someone in this situation?

So. Someone accidentally left the gardening shed open on Sunday. Probably me, but I was certain I locked it. It downpoured Sunday night and all of Monday here, into Tuesday morning, like really hard. Nobody was outside so nobody noticed the shed was open. Well, the sun came out Tuesday afternoon, and so did the wildlife. I came home around 5pm to every single garden bed destroyed in the backyard, and somewhat destroyed in the front.

In the garden shed, I keep peanuts and seed and I was feeding the animals. It's never been an issue before. The squirrels would sometimes dig a little but nothing crazy, and certainly not destructive. (Been feeding for years now). Well, squirrels also fake hide their nuts, to fake out the other squirrels. They fake hid nuts all over my beds, so now they think there's nuts in the garden beds. Fwiw i haven't found a single peanut in any of the beds.

After a cry, my husband and I fixed all the beds, then came in and ordered some stuff from Amazon. Garden netting, chili oil spray, and these little spearmint and garlic scented balls. I dumped 2 containers of cayenne pepper +Chipotle powder around the perimeters Wednesday morning hoping to keep them at bay. That did nothing. Wednesday night, after the chili oil arrived, I drenched the dirt of the 2 veggie beds in the oil + the perimeter (they're raised beds). Thursday morning/early afternoon everything seemed great. Like this was finally the solution. I was relieved. Then I got a phone call from my husband last night while I was at work that they dug up the beds again. We decided we needed something better so we were going to put the mesh netting up for now.

This is where it gets really fun. He opened the shed, and was like, umm, didn't you clean this up? Did they get in the shed again? I had cleaned up the mess. So we decided that I can no longer feed the birds this year, which I am distraught about as I love having them in the yard, and I said we have to get this all out of the shed. It's the only way this stops. I pulled everything out of the shed so I could do a thorough cleaning, as I hadn't done that before and got the surprise of a lifetime. Apparently the wind had closed the door on a squirrel who was still in the shed, and we didn't know for several days so upon pulling the last item out of the shed, there was a little squirrel, scared in the corner. Scared the poop out of me because I wasn't expecting it. Then we spent the next 5 minutes trying to scare it out of the shed.

So we hung up the netting, as a temporary solution, the squirrel is out of my shed, and my husband is going to build some sort of covers for the beds.

If you read this far, thank you. I really just needed to get that out. This week has been a struggle and I'm so stressed about some other things going on, and I just really wanted my beds to thrive. So many things had really started to root, and now with them continually pulling them out, idk how well things will go and I spent so much money on building these beds, like over 1k. Which may not be a lot to some, but it's a lot for me, and I'm just so sad about it.

Also I was hoping for some opinions. Should we keep the top open of the contraption my hubby is building? How will things pollinate if we don't have the top open. Will the squirrels climb it, if we keep it open?

The belts. The weird scrunchy skirts. The sparkly tops. The dolman tops. The ugly high heels. Wtf. I think there's been one whole outfit i didn't hate on her, and that's because they dressed her in an a-line skirt, which is far more appropriate for her body type. Why does Maddie and Helen have a decent wardrobe but Dana Sue always look like she shopped at Goodwill? ( Not that there's anything wrong with Goodwill) It's just that the outfits are not similarly stylish.

I honestly can't take it anymore. It seriously pisses me off. As a fellow chubby girl, I know they can do better.

I was previously renting a room and the landlord is trying to keep my security deposit for something that was outside my control. I am having trouble finding anything that's similar to the residential rights and responsibilities document for commercial properties as that other document is specifically for residential. Short of taking it to small claims court, is there someone I can contact who could help me with this?