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mrsbrownMy gardener sacked me today.
She says I didn't renew my contract - She only wants clients who adore her, thank her and pay her on time, without reminders.
Interestingly, she offered to work in my garden years ago, and I didn't want her to because she's a good friend, with strong opinions on how I should run my life, and I didn't want the obligation her gardening would require of me. Then we moved a little apart and for my wedding gift (I wrote weeding gift first) she completely cleaned up my weed infested front garden. I thought we had enough distance established that it would work, and I thought it was.
No, I didn't get the direct deposit I promised organised. I've said before, my budgeting and finances have been a mess for the last 6 months.
And no, I haven't paid her much attention in the last year. I'm busy with other stuff, we don't have much in common anymore, now our children don't go to the same schools/kindergartens, and as I said, she has strong opinions on how I should run my life.
Unfortunately, she doesn't see (and that's ok) the times I thought about her, or about visiting her. Or that I've pulled up weeds and watered plants in my front yard, not because I give a particular damn about the plants in my yard, but because I don't want her to come back to work in a mess of weeds and dead plants after her christmas break.
Now I'm trying to work out if I want to redeem myself with her. Write her a nice note, ask her to dinner, promise to set up the direct deposit AND do it. Or maybe I should just get a new gardener, someone happy to just turn up without seeing me and get paid electronically.
To be honest, part of the problem is that I do most of my friend/life organisation electronically and my friend doesn't. So I have to make more effort with her. That, and I'm a slack type when it comes to phone calls and interruptions to the plans I have made or obsessions I'm in.
I probably won't see her again until after Festival and I didn't see her during my holidays at christmas because I was obsessed by the dress I was making then.
She says I didn't renew my contract - She only wants clients who adore her, thank her and pay her on time, without reminders.
Interestingly, she offered to work in my garden years ago, and I didn't want her to because she's a good friend, with strong opinions on how I should run my life, and I didn't want the obligation her gardening would require of me. Then we moved a little apart and for my wedding gift (I wrote weeding gift first) she completely cleaned up my weed infested front garden. I thought we had enough distance established that it would work, and I thought it was.
No, I didn't get the direct deposit I promised organised. I've said before, my budgeting and finances have been a mess for the last 6 months.
And no, I haven't paid her much attention in the last year. I'm busy with other stuff, we don't have much in common anymore, now our children don't go to the same schools/kindergartens, and as I said, she has strong opinions on how I should run my life.
Unfortunately, she doesn't see (and that's ok) the times I thought about her, or about visiting her. Or that I've pulled up weeds and watered plants in my front yard, not because I give a particular damn about the plants in my yard, but because I don't want her to come back to work in a mess of weeds and dead plants after her christmas break.
Now I'm trying to work out if I want to redeem myself with her. Write her a nice note, ask her to dinner, promise to set up the direct deposit AND do it. Or maybe I should just get a new gardener, someone happy to just turn up without seeing me and get paid electronically.
To be honest, part of the problem is that I do most of my friend/life organisation electronically and my friend doesn't. So I have to make more effort with her. That, and I'm a slack type when it comes to phone calls and interruptions to the plans I have made or obsessions I'm in.
I probably won't see her again until after Festival and I didn't see her during my holidays at christmas because I was obsessed by the dress I was making then.
