Annoyed with the cleaning lady

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My work BFF always laughs when I mention the cleaning lady since I live in a 2 BR apartment and have someone clean for me. I *can* do it but I simply don't like to. I'd do it if I *had* to but I am able to pay someone $125 every other week to do it for me. I found her on Angie's List (now just "Angi") but after a couple of visits we just started arranging it ourselves via text so I had to pay less and she took home more. It was $100 per visit for a couple of years but I bumped it to $125 (unasked) last year. For Christmas I paid her $200 for the visit. She's always done a good job. She takes out the garbage, recycles, and all of the cardboard from my online shopping. She even cleans out the cat's litter box which I appreciate because I am not always on top of it. One time she cleaned a couple of shelves in the fridge. A few times she's folded my laundry. I don't expect those extra things (I do expect the garbage and recycles though) so I am appreciative when she does them. I also often give her leftovers or stuff in the freezer because I know she has to go to the food pantry. For the past few months she's been coming during the day when I'm at work so I have no idea how long she is here. The last time she was here for over 2 hours and did the garbage, recycles, cardboard, and litter box. . . but it was a Saturday so I was here. Today she came while I was at work. I had already taken out the garbage on my way to work so the bag was empty. I got back to find that she did the usual cleaning and she did clean the litterbox but she dumped the bathroom garbage into the kitchen trash can, she didn't take out the recycles, and she didn't take out the 2 small cardboard boxes by the door. I'd guess that she was here for an hour tops. I'm not sure what is going on. She didn't text me to say that she had to rush out or anything. Is she quiet quitting? Is she simply doing less because she wants more money? (if so just ask) I'm going to give her another shot to see what she does/doesn't do. I really don't want to have to find someone else. Like I said I've been using her for years and I trust her to be here when I'm not. I don't want to have to start over again with a new person. Ugh. So I will suck it up and send the $125 but if this happens again I'm out.