I love my wife. She does much more than I around the house.
She says this is because I am lazy. However, that is false.
The truth is that there is a threshold at which each of our brains clicks and says, "X chore needs done." Lisa is so type A that her threshold for everything clicks long, long before mine does. I could easily go two weeks without vacuuming the floor. She has problems with going two days. I can walk by a pile of papers on the counter 20 times and as long as they are organized, I'll leave them alone. But having something unfiled on a counter to Lisa is anathema.
But I know what you mean. I have the same thing though Laura and I funnily have different thresholds for different chores we edge each other out on different things.
Nuri and I are approximately equally slovenly. However, we're slovenly in different specific ways that poke at the other person.
Example: Nuri's clothes are strewn all over her bedroom. So are mine. However, the way I strew my clothes when I'm at her place is incompatible with the way she strews her clothes. "PETER! YOU LEFT YOUR CLOTHES IN THE WAY AGAIN!"
Vice-versa, I'll often have my stuff strewn about the living room, but when she strews her yarn about my living room, it always manages to somehow get in the way. "NURI! THE FIBER DOES NOT LIVE IN THE LIVING ROOM!"
It's a funny thing, really.
Fortunately, we both recognize and help each other with our slovenly ways, so it balances out.
And, back to the poltics, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) has been shot and possibly killed today, at a Congress on Your Corner(as she called it). Others were also shot, reports are currently showing 15 wounded, 6-7 dead.
I'm going to periodically rehost that image; it appears that they're already attempting to take it down and avert disaster, but BoingBoing has already mirrored it, so I don't think they're going to get anywhere.
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She says this is because I am lazy. However, that is false.
The truth is that there is a threshold at which each of our brains clicks and says, "X chore needs done." Lisa is so type A that her threshold for everything clicks long, long before mine does. I could easily go two weeks without vacuuming the floor. She has problems with going two days. I can walk by a pile of papers on the counter 20 times and as long as they are organized, I'll leave them alone. But having something unfiled on a counter to Lisa is anathema.
But I know what you mean. I have the same thing though Laura and I funnily have different thresholds for different chores we edge each other out on different things.
Example: Nuri's clothes are strewn all over her bedroom. So are mine. However, the way I strew my clothes when I'm at her place is incompatible with the way she strews her clothes. "PETER! YOU LEFT YOUR CLOTHES IN THE WAY AGAIN!"
Vice-versa, I'll often have my stuff strewn about the living room, but when she strews her yarn about my living room, it always manages to somehow get in the way. "NURI! THE FIBER DOES NOT LIVE IN THE LIVING ROOM!"
It's a funny thing, really.
Fortunately, we both recognize and help each other with our slovenly ways, so it balances out.
Stay classy, Sarah PAC.
Giffords's opponent ran that ad just prior to the election.