Anyone else having to deal with this?

In southern Maryland Saturday, we got just under 1 foot of snow. The kids and I finished shoveling us out by about noon. Naturally enough everything is closed, so I'm getting ready to kick back and relax in my recliner and watch a little TV. Out of nowhere, my wife pulls out this list of things that she's been wanting to get done (AKA wants ME to get done) around the house. I just spent the last day and a half hanging new curtain rods throughout the house (don't know why she didn't like the old ones), hanging new pictures on the walls (this also meant filling/priming/painting old nail holes), re-arranging the furniture in a couple of rooms and re-arranging a curio cabinet (I still don't know why that one couldn't wait).

As in most marriages I assume, to keep the peace I just smiled and got to work.

I don't think that I've ever been happier to get back to my job this morning... I needed the rest.

 

Understood.

I generally don't have a problem with any of that.... as long as it's "Planned".
You have a long list to tackle, ok, no problem, lets plan on starting this Saturday... or any given day for the plan.
Springing it on me as if the roof is leaking and we need to stop the water now is the frustrating part.

 

Happy wife, happy life.

 

Yup. Storm predicted for this area tomorrow I can hear that list a comin'

 

Hmmmm,
Its kind of a one way street here, I don't mind the projects she gives me they are usually small and I'm usually looking for something to do and I'm usually ok if they are spur of the moment . However that being said it's usually a one way street !! My wife is not spontaneous she's a planner and easily frustrated by things that are not planned so if I turn the tables and say hey could you do this. GOOD LUCK on getting it done, I'm not saying it will never get done BUT like the gubberment it will require appropriations, approval, planning and a rather lethargic time table. She gets the routine things done like shopping , cleaning etc.. but don't expect any quick action on something that's out of the routine. that's just the way it is and I have gotten used to it.

 

We got snow a few weeks ago here in OK. It was only a few inches though. It was enough that they cancelled school (or switched to tele-school). Momma wanted me to shovel the driveway. So I used my $hi++y snow shovel and got 1/2 of it done, since I was going to be the only one driving that day anyways.

 

My wife always says things like "we need to wash the garage doors", "we need to repair that step". "we" always have something to do. "we" means she tells me, I do it...

 

Being single has a few perks. Not many, but some.

 

I run everything in my house! washer,dryer, vacuum, ironing board. I’m the Boss when my wife isn’t home

 

Love it !! My dad worked 12hr. days sometimes 3 times a week a 8 hr. day was rare for him, my mom also worked usually 3-4 days a week, she never as long as I can remember failed to put a dinner on the table however we were usually on our own for lunch and dinner except on week ends, so when I turned about 13 mom said if ya want some of those things you need to learn to cook and use the washer and dryer etc..
so under her tutoring I did !! My wife praised my mom for that !! since we have been married ( 48 years ) my wife has never done my laundry except when I was laid up with back problems, as far as cooking we share that about 50/50 not because I have to but because I want to, I love to cook and the Mrs. enjoys it.
My wife worked full time and completed her college education at night and raised 3 kids so she earned her help. Happy to do it as I noted in my previous thread her time table a little slower than mine .
as far as honey do's don't we all have honey don'ts ? that could be another thread But maybe we should continue it here .
Honey Don'ts 1.Never compare her to her mother !! that's war !!
2. Never put onions in anything you cook for her unless you leave them big enough to pick out
3. don't leave the toilette seat up
4.dont use any kind of air freshener unless it's a cinnamon scent
5. if you use her car don't leave the seat adjusted to the rear, adjust it back to the vertically challenged position.
6. don't butter her toast

There's more but that's a sample how about you ? what are your honey don'ts


uhhh oh just realized I hijacked a thread, should have started another one My apologies.

 

You crack me up Solly!! Oh yeah we all have honey don'ts.

 

I only have one "honey don't".

My wife and I came to an agreement 35 years ago. During football season, I will give her 6 1/2 days of my undevoted attention for whatever she would like to do. But I am a born and bred PA guy and a diehard Eagles fan since birth, so for 4 hours on Sundays (and sometimes Thursdays or Mondays) I am to be left alone so that I can watch the game, drink a few and scream at the TV in relative peace.

The funny part is is that she is from Texas and a Cowboys fan, but the same rule applies. If the Eagles are playing the Cowboys, she has to watch the game in a different room than my friends and me. We consider it bad luck to have her cheering in the same room as us.

 

Chip,
I used to get push back on the football but for some unexplained reason ( and I'm afraid to ask for fear of jinxing it) that stopped about 2 years ago maybe when I started watching Thursday night football on Amazon. maybe she figured it was useless to protest's. I do try to balance things out with her by watching a butt load of HG TV the Food Network and 90 day Fiancée on TLC (YUUUUCK)
And oh yeah another Honey don't , don't tell her she's running late. My wife is notorious for being late but don't ever tell her that !! If you want her to be on time lie about the scheduled time by at least 1 hour and you may have a chance of being on time !!