Show of hands -- who else wants a billytea's-inlaws of their very own?
Look, you really do. And they come with their own interepreter! Oh, wait, I'm keeping her. Come to think of it, I'm keeping them too. Get your own live-in-laws!
Whatever happened to the still beating heart of a virgin? No one has any standards anymore.
Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
billytea - Jun 05, 2009 5:16:30 am PDT #11951 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Barb - Jun 05, 2009 5:17:15 am PDT #11952 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
I clean as I cook. I cannot work in a messy kitchen and I hate being faced with a mountain of pots, pans, and dishes at the end of a meal. Even if someone else is cleaning, the idea of it makes me crazy. So generally, if I'm cooking, there's very little beyond the actual serving and eating dishes and utensils that need to be cleaned afterward.
Laura - Jun 05, 2009 5:17:39 am PDT #11953 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
hand raised My parents and in-laws get waited on when they visit. I need to visit them more often.
Gudanov - Jun 05, 2009 5:24:29 am PDT #11954 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
This whole "helpless male" bullshit annoys the hell out of me.
Back when my wife would sometimes leave or a day or two for church stuff. It would drive me nuts when my MIL worried about me being able to take care of the kids and make dinner and stuff, even though I did that almost every day.
I clean as I cook. I cannot work in a messy kitchen and I hate being faced with a mountain of pots, pans, and dishes at the end of a meal.
I like to clean as I cook too, but I'm rarely able to achieve enough efficiency to avoid stuff to clean at the end.
sj - Jun 05, 2009 5:28:30 am PDT #11955 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
My mother comes over and starts cleaning things up that I didn't even notice. I have decided it is too much trouble to stop her.
When TCG's stepmom and dad come over for dinner, she starts to clean up after we eat. Try to discourage this because I think she thinks I should get up and do the same. Usually I have done the meal planning, shopping and cooking, and TCG is going to do the clean up.
I should say that it isn't a sharp divide between what we do. Often TCG will make a salad or do some of the choping, and I'll put away leftovers and anything that needs to go back in the fridge while he is doing dishes.
Polter-Cow - Jun 05, 2009 5:47:29 am PDT #11956 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
DH admits to me very sheepishly that he LOVES it when he comes home and dinner is ready--but that really only happens about 20-30% of the time.
That is also the percentage of breast cancers that overexpress HER2!!
...Sorry, I've been researching for my cancer pharmacology workshop.
Stephanie - Jun 05, 2009 6:10:01 am PDT #11957 of 30000
Trust my rage
Okay, hivemind, give me some advice.
I have an old friend - she was in fact the MoH at my wedding. We are mostly in touch via FB now because she lives in OK but just moved this weekend to DC. I would love to see her and her kids. (eta: and I'll be in DC for three weeks this summer while Joe goes to a course.) But, about five years ago, her husband, who I also considered a friend, was in Colorado when I lived there, for some Army stuff and while he was there, he made several statements about how he had feelings for me. I said thanks, but no thanks, and we left it at that. Until he sent me this email about how I shouldn't have been offended because he *loved* me. And Joe read the email and got sort of upset.
We, Joe and the kids and I, will be in DC this summer and my friend, having read about it on FB, said she wants us to get together. I really like her a lot but I do not want to re-hash this crap with anyone - either her husband or Joe. I really don't think Joe would care anymore but I still would rather not have to rehash it, you know?
So, I'm thinking I will just tell her that only Joe will be in DC for the course and avoid FB for those three weeks. That's the best option, right?
sj - Jun 05, 2009 6:13:31 am PDT #11958 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Stephanie can you tell her Joe will be super busy at that time but you would love to do lunch with just the two of you and maybe the kids?
Stephanie - Jun 05, 2009 6:17:04 am PDT #11959 of 30000
Trust my rage
That's the other thing I was thinking about and it's actually true. Joe will have to be studying probably almost every evening we are there and we have two weddings and a trip to NC planned for the three weekends we will be there. (I think I might die of exhaustion after this move.) So it's true. Maybe I should do that.
omnis_audis - Jun 05, 2009 6:17:23 am PDT #11960 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
they were both raised in near poverty so by habit only cook very basic foods. I've had to teach myself how to use spices and fresh ingredients with a little more flair.This describes my mother. She has never been that great of a cook. As a kid, she was raising three of us alone, and had multiple jobs, so we kids learned to cook at a young age. She never really used spices. I did. It was like chemistry class. One time, when I was visiting from college, she made me some meatballs and said "I know you like them with some spice, so I added extra flavor for you". Ya. That pinged the radar. The meatballs were saturated with a TON of garlic powder. Even worse, garlic powder that had been sitting over the stove for YEARS and was clumpy and far from fresh. She could see from the first bite, and was like "ooo, too much??" um, ya.