We had a wonderful anniversary. Kevin came home with presents (always a good start) and then we headed out to my favorite resturant, il piatto. If you are ever looking for a wonderful place to eat, I highly recommend it. We found it because Kevin’s brother used to take girls there if he was trying to impress them. Now I know why. Not too expensive but excellent service and very intimate atmosphere. And yummy wine. Ahhhhh. And the best part was we made it home in time to catch the end of BattleBots on tv. Could it get any better????
Category Archives: Marriage
The Pooka Life
Dan has weighted in with his laundry thoughts…
Uh, my wife is pregnant. I sort, I wash, I dry, I fold, I put away. No problem. Remember boys, if wifey is happy, then everyone is happy, if wifey is not happy, nobody’s happy.
Dan
I think I need a moment to ponder this wisdom…..
The Pooka Life
And the laundry debate continues. My dad sheds some insight on the dilemma…
Hi C & K,
I was just on your web site enjoying your pictures and thoughts. Laundry is also a touchy subject here at silver arrow. My laundry privileges were taken away from me because of my inability to properly sort the loads. But I am supposed to fold them when they are done. They are normally dumped in the middle of the bed so its difficult to ignore unless you want to sleep under a pile of clothes. But if I wait long enough JT will fold them, but then I have listen to a lecture about not pulling my weight. If the clothes are left in the dryer, I have been known to wear them out of the dryer until its empty. I’m sorry Kevin, it must be in the genes.
Dad
Dan, you are also married to a Terry woman. I’m curious how the whole laundry thing unfolds in the Walls household. Any comments???
Reckoning
Setting the record straight
OK, there needs to be a little reckoning here. All of you in web-land have been receiving some very one sided information. I was ousted from Blogger-ville a while ago and not able to refute the charges against me. But now I’ve hacked my way back in and before the landlady get’s wind of this I’m going to give you my story.
First: The Guestbook – July 21st Blog
There was some extreme exageration about the guestbook setup. Now I did spend 3 days working on a guestbook form and starting in on the CGI script, but this delay was too intolerable for some ‘antsy-pants’. Much to this person’s credit she did find that our ISP already had guestbook fiees ready to use and downloaded them. But I *actually* set up (except for the lavendar background color) our current page and got everything working. I don’t know where this 90% C, 10% K thing came from. Right about that time my Blog priveledges were revoked, now I’m starting to see a pattern of behavior.
Second: The Laundry – July 24th Blog
Now let’s get one thing straight. I am a laundry machine. I can pump out a load of fully seperated, washed, and dried clothes in less than 1.5 hrs. I can wash a load of laundry as well as George W. Bush can give a tax break to big oil. When do you do laundry? Do you come home from a long day at work, walk your dog, do the dishes, then start a load of laundry at 9pm at night – which will take 1.5 hrs to finish? No, you do your laundry Sat. or Sun. morning when there’s plenty of time to go around the house and find all of someone’s ‘little dainties’ which are strewn around everywhere. Now, when someone – we’ll call her ‘person B’ – wakes up does she want to do laundry right away when it’s hot? No! She want’s her coffee and her breakfast, and that IS all. There will be no talk of anything else until the grumpmiester, er, person B has had her morning coffee. The fact that she normally walks by the laundry room – with all it’s baskets of washed, but *cold*, laundry – in the morning means nothing. Now, you may be asking yourself, if person B needs clean clothes and person A does the laundry on the weekend why can’t person B just ask for the clothes to be warmed up when she’s ready to fold them? Why does person A have to figure out when person B will be ready fold laundry 1.5 hrs before hand – so that the laundry will be at optimum folding temperature? Surely the stress of this guessing game would cause any young, good-looking, innocent laundery-dude to crack and accuse person B of being a “laundry-nazi.” Why can’t we all just work together to live in laundry-peace?
Thank you for listening to the truth 🙂
Laundry, Laundry, Laundry
OK, I need to know if I’m neurotic or right as usual. It all revolves around the laundry. In order to keep things neutral, I will omit the names to protect the innocent (kevin).
The laundry detail is divided into two separate but equal areas of responsibility. Person A rounds up the laundry from all over the house, brings it down to the basement, separates it and washes it. Person B receives the fresh laundry and folds it and puts it all away. Sounds simply? Well, here’s the twist that caused a commotion in the McLaughlin household last night.
Simply put, Person B prefers that the laundry is warm upon folding. This allows for minimum wrinkling and avoids the dreaded “I” word. This requirement has completely baffled Person A who believes that once the cloths are in the drier his, er, Person A’s job is complete. The result? There were seven (7) loads of laundry sitting in the basement last night and Person B was without any fresh clothing. SEVEN LOADS!!!!! And when Person B reasonably requested that the loads were reheated before folding could commence, Person A went totally ballistic and called Person B neurotic and deemed her a “laundry natzi”.
Now I ask you, it is too much to ask for warm laundry? Please let me know who you think is neurotic – Person A or Person B. Any suggesting to the laundry system would be much appreciated.
(Oh yeah, Person A sucks at separating and has turned all of Person B’s socks and undies pink along with shirking every nice blouse Person B owns so I think Person B is entitle to a little grumbling, don’t you?)