Thing to Do No. 13: Outsource Nesting

When you're all tired and pregnant, the idea of "nesting" is not particularly appealing. I don't enjoy housework in my regular life; why would I enjoy it while I'm all fat and awkward? Some people might, but I do not.

To that end, I have hired out the super-cleaning of our house. Meet George:


I'm sorry this is not a very good picture. It's bad, even for me. I didn't feel like explaining to George that I am a crazy person who keeps a blog of the very odd things that I do and that I needed a picture of him cleaning my rugs for me. So, I had to sneak it while he was working.

George is a super-nice guy from Larry Hughes' Carpet and Upholstery Cleaning Service. I am paying the company lots of money to clean all the rugs and upholstery in my house. My house now smells like a mid-grade hotel. All joking aside, George is wonderful. He is from Mexico and was just naturalized a few months ago. He had to agree not to return to Mexico for 2 years while being naturalized. He took his citizenship oath a few months ago. He has 7 brothers and sisters and 17 nieces and nephews all back at home. He's returning for the first time in two years in December.

On Friday nights, he tends bar at Hispanic clubs, and on weekends, he enjoys cooking. He told me he cooks from scratch because he was always more of a "Mama's Boy" and learned from his Mother, who I imagine is delightful.

He has no idea he's now featured on the internet.