The White Glove Award

July 5th was my day off but July 6th was the housing inspection for our building, meaning a Price Management inspection team would be coming into our apartment to assess its cleanliness. Now there are three levels you can get: Pass, meaning it's clean enough to pass and you go on with your business. Fail, meaning they take pictures of your apartment that get sent to your boss and you have to pay to have maids come in and clean it for you. And then there's the prestigious White Glove Award for an apartment that exceeds expectations, for which you get a box of ferrero rochers (sp?).

Now I'm all for chocolate. But the real reason I wanted the award is because I'm a perfectionist and I love to see my efforts go awarded. So we got some cleaning supplies, we rented a vacuum, and we spent the day cleaning. I went all out. We took the top of the stove, we did an oven self-clean, I cleaned out the fridge and even moved the furniture to vacuum underneath. It was a full day's effort.

In the evening I went out for dinner. The plan was to go to Sweet Tomatoes, a vegetarian friendly pasta bar, with Meagan. But we invited John to come along and he already had plans to go to Whispering Canyon with Lorin and another friend Thomas. So we all ended up at Whispering Canyon at 7pm. I'm not going to put pictures up because I look disgustingly obese--and these pictures were taken BEFORE we ate! Ew I'm disgusting I need to go on a diet stat. Ok So Whispering Canyon. Now this is another Wilderness Lodge restaurant, so naturally it's all meat. But they bring complimentary cornbread and I managed to order a salad and an all-you-can-drink milkshake. Now THAT may have been a mistake. I drank an orange, a caramel, and part of a chocolate strawberry milkshake, and by the end I felt like puking. I don't know if it was too much lactose or just too much of a good thing or what. After an hour of sitting at home then another couple hours of heavy cleaning I felt better though.

I got up at 5:30 the next morning (this morning) so that I could clean up after myself before going to work, to make sure everything would be perfect for our inspection. After work I went straight to Vista and picked up my social security card, then to Walmart with John to pick up bread but mostly to kill time because I didn't want to go home until the inspection was definitely over.

After Walmart, though, I didn't have much choice. So I headed home and guess what I found? A huge box of Ferrero Rocher's and a note saying we'd won the White Glove Award! I was so proud of us! So now I've been enjoying rich creamy chocolates all night and making myself sick again. Ugh. But it was worth it.....right?