Which may well be par for the course apart from the fact that after two years, she leaves me a voice-mail?! Class. I feel like Carrie Bradshaw getting broken-up-with via post-it.

Awesome. I had a PCA just stop turning up for work, forever - she turned her phone off permanently - but she'd only been working for me about a month. Two years with nothing but a voicemail is really shoddy.

I mean, my keen detective instincts were telling me that there was something keeping her head out of the game, but as good as my gut is, I couldn't just call the agency and blame my spider-sense. But I was right. Yay?

hm ... lots going on.

First, yay for MM! and yay for billytea and good in-laws and new baby!

The helpless male thing annoys me, but since it doesn't affect me it's kind of moot. In my family, my father was very insistant on traditional gender roles - he didn't clean inside, but took care of the garden and outdoors things. He felt it was a great injustice he had to make his own breakfast (it was 5am! ack!) and insisted on a hot meal every evening. My mother hated housework of any sort and pushed as much of it on me as possible ... except cooking, which might have improved things (I used to look forward to lunch at the school cafeteria).

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I am now in LOVE with the "Olivia" books!! Em got some from the library and they are TOTALLY made of win!! I love the one at the end where she's dreaming of being the Supreme Court Chief Justice. We must own these books, I believe.

Heh. Toddson, your family sounds like mine--my dad worked outside the home, so felt like he shouldn't have to do any cooking or cleaning. Um, at all. And my mom felt pissy at him...so as soon as the kids were old enough (9ish?), we got to mow the lawn! Because, see, that *should've* been his job.

My daughter would love to mow the lawn. But we have a lawn tractor, so it is much more exciting. I expect the excitement would last about half and hour.

No, my father took care of the "man" stuff - gardening, mowing the lawn, painting, etc. But the routine stuff inside the house - cleaning, laundry, ironing, cooking - was women's work. Even after my mother went to work full time. So it got passed on to me.

Jeez, erika, that is of teh suck.

My family has the traditional gender breakdown. In Jamaica my mother hires the inside help and my father the outside. In England, my mother did the inside work, my father the outside. I doubt my father can cook, and I'm pretty sure he can't clean--when he lived most of the year by himself in Russia he had one woman to clean and another to cook, which was even more siddity than Jamaica. There we double up.

I know! And if I were Ari Gold, instead of just playing him on the internets, given that she is MILFy and German...there's just like, some AutoBahn reference, begging to be free, and yet? I've got nothing. It will come to me in three weeks when I no longer need it, of course.