Hello Nancy!   
      
   Saturday January 14 2006 19:02, you wrote to me:   
      
    NB> -=> Quoting Sean Rima to Nancy Backus on 01-11-06  18:03 <=-   
      
    SR>>> LOL, good to see a member of the opposite sex admit to it :)   
    NB>>> I suspect that you'd find quite a number of us who would admit   
    NB>>> not only that we hate it, but that we aren't all that great at   
    NB>>> it either. Some areas of organization I prefer my way, but I   
    NB>>> think that's the case for just about anyone of either sex...  :)   
      
    SR>> Only meet one other woman who admitted to being bad at it but the   
    SR>> rest I work with seem to be perfectionists :)   
      
    NB> Well, there are some (and some men as well) that are what my MIL   
    NB> called "nasty-neat" housekeepers...  But perhaps some that you work   
    NB> with are just trying to keep up appearances...  :)   
      
    NB> I gave up on trying to keep up a long time ago, though.  I teach piano   
    NB> in my home, and usually manage to keep the area around the piano   
    NB> clear, and the piano accessible for lessons (as well as for my own   
    NB> practice). After a while, part of my initial interview with   
    NB> prospective students or their parents, included a disclaimer about the   
    NB> state of my house, and suggested that if a messy house was going to   
    NB> bother them, then I wasn't the right teacher for them.  Never had a   
    NB> student/parent back out at that point, though... I usually got a "You   
    NB> haven't seen the state of MY house!" remark back, too...  :)   
      
    NB> One parent made my day, though, when I had occasion to feel I should   
    NB> apologize to her for the state of my house and did so, by replying,   
    NB> "But I don't pay you for the state of your house, but for teaching my   
    NB> kids piano, and that you do excellently!"  :)   I think she went on to   
    NB> say something about priorities being in the right place... :)   
      
   I always say that a tidy house is the sign of a sick mind :) And the kids need   
   a place to have a wobbly from time to time :)   
      
   Sean   
      
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