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I am not working from home like everyone else so I see everything going on in the streets first hand. I normally work in an office with 50 people and now I go to work everyday with a total of 10 people. The 9 people that are coming to work everyday are hard working people that know what it means to go without. It's funny to me know that when I was trying to clean my work space with bleach as it use to be a storage area and I moved into this space without it being cleaned. I was told OMG what's that smell. (3 years ago. My response back then was it's obvious you don't clean your house as you don't know what bleach smells like. ) Flash forward to today and now you don't hear one person saying anything about cleaning with bleach,pine soil or lysol. I am a high risk person according to the CDC, but I am going to work everyday (Taking steps to secure my own health and safety). I use my own money to take cleaning product to my office to clean everything I a come into contact with as this building and office are filthy and I watched these people cut and run for home and left us to deal with there dirt.
Can I tell you that on Tuesday morning when I arrived at work armed with bleach, pine soil and paper towels not one of the 9 people remaining had any negative comments. After working a full week in this office I watched the remaining people clean up after themselves and are now willing to help each other maintain a safe space for each of us.
I watched these entitled people come into work and expect the cleaning lady, who came in the office twice a week to clean up their mess like the house keeper that comes to their house every week to clean.(I told her she could skip my work space as I would clean it up myself everyday. I know what its like to clean other peoples mess for a living. My grandmother did everyday until the day I told her to stop as she was struggling to walk and catch 3 buses to get to work. My grandmother worked hard to provide for her daughters, so that they could have a better life and future.) Three weeks ago I heard one person say to another that the cleaning lady they sent to her apartment wanted $95 to clean the apartment her and her boyfriend shared. They told her it was too much money. ( It is amazing to me that they are working from home now and complaining that the cleaning lady has not come to their house to clean and everyone chiming in online emails and telling them it's going to be okay and stay strong. These people don't have a CLUE and they think they are struggling. (I wonder how much money they are now spending to clean up there own mess as they must now live isolated in their own mess.)
My mother was a nurse so I know from her how to clean and I was raised with my mom coming home everyday and not being able to hug her until she had isolated herself from us and put her dirty clothing in a solution of detergent and bleach and showered completely before coming into contact with her family. I valued these lessons from these strong women who took care of their families.
This is the month of women. In the present time and condition I honor the deceased women in my family that gave me life lessons that are being put into practice today and I am not running around crazy looking for toilet paper.
See I was lucky to be raised among great, great grand parents that survived the crash of 1920 and the great depression in this country. I listened to their stories and learned how to stock a pantry properly. I heard numerous people talk about my grandmother at her funeral and agreeing that you could always come to her house and knock on the door after getting off the greyhound bus and say your hungry.(Didn't matter if it was 2 am, she would tell you come on in and sit down and go into the kitchen and within a few minutes produce something that made your mouth water and she would send you away with a bag of left overs to feed you for the next two days.
I practice what I was taught by her for years. My next door neighbor has knocked on my door numerous times asking for a cup of milk or sugar and I never fail to not give her what she needs to make her family work and never once gave an excuse as to why I could not help. She knocked on my door a couple of days ago and asked if I needed a case of water as she thought about me when she went to work at PUBLIX. (Local grocery store) She even told me that her cousin was in her apartment when she ran out of milk and didn't want to drive to the store. Her cousin told he why are you bothering that women when you can drive to the store and she probably does not have any milk anyway. She told me that her cousins mouth hit the floor when she came back with the milk. I have only lived in this building 4 years. (The landlord has a cleaning lady who catches a bus and comes to the building everyday to mop the hallways and clean the stairwells and elevator. She knows that I have been known to mop the floor outside my apartment early in the morning before I go to work so she has less work to do and I have picked up other peoples garbage and taken it down stairs to the trash receptacle.)
I am writing this journal today to say these people have lives and families. They are not the invisible people and they deserve every penny they earn. They deserve your respect and not the crumbs you care to toss at them. Value the person next to you and don't ever put yourself up so high that you look down on anyone, because circumstances can change and they will be the ones looking you in the face and helping you to get up and make it to another day. The next time your in a hospital and you are giving a nurse HELL remember that she has to put up with people like you for 365 days a year and then go home to her family and smile. Better yet have you thought to go and give that nurse a gift card and say THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gratitude goes a long way, but you must put action into your words everyday as none of us are promised tomorrow.
Honor all the women in your life this month and everyday.
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193.0 lb
Lost so far: 0 lb.
Still to go: 53.0 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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gaining 0.5 lb a week
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