If you ever have something you would like to do, especially before a holiday or a big event, or just even because you are finally getting around to doing it, I would suggest not being in our house. Because whether or not you have expressed your plan/desire/idea, you can be sure that The Tim will somehow manage to create a roadblock. He is the master.
Just some background here: The Tim is a good guy. He is more than willing to pitch in on housework, cooking, cleaning, etc. He has a certain way that he does things, and he is also famous for making the sudden decision to do something and then doing it. Oh he may have been talking about doing it for months, but one day you come home from work, or wake up and go downstairs, and suddenly all of the curtains are in the washing machine, or the furniture is piled in the middle of the room so he can start painting, or - well, you get the drift of what I'm saying.
As I have mentioned here, I am still going to work in our building on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and he is still laid off, so he is home all day, every day. Which was especially convenient yesterday, when the plumber came to haul out our old, deceased water heater and install the new one. It meant that neither of us had to make any special arrangements.
Since we live in a rowhouse, and I knew that the plumber would need to go up and down the steps leading to the basement to move things in and out, I cleared out the "pantry" on Monday. Our "pantry" consists of some small shelves inside the door to the basement, and some items kept on the steps on the way down. I knew that The Tim would need to take off the door so that there would be room, so I put everything into some bags and boxes and placed them in a corner of the living room. I figured that after dinner last night, I would put things back, and then today could do some cleaning up and we would be organized just fine for Thanksgiving.
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Oh, boy, do I get it. I get it like you can't believe. Today, even though it will be just Rick and I for Tgiving this year, I am still baking pie and making stuffing today. Rick will absolutely decide that TODAY he will undertake some enormously inconvenient project that he has had years and years to do, and that impacts Thanksgiving Dinner not at all, except to make it impossible for me to prepare it efficiently and easily and ON MY SCHEDULE. Because of course he took some vacation days this week.
I will get back to you with what he decided to do.
OMG YES! Dale would clean when he was angry. I picked more than one fight when something needed tidying.
Oh lord. I sympathize. John is a saint in many ways, but he invariably decides to take on some big project that has been put off for months right at moments like this. Power wash all the outdoor surfaces when company is coming in an hour? Check. It’s amazing that men don’t get murdered by wives more often.
Yes, I remember those days! (I am divorced now but not because of that!) :)
Happy Thanksgiving!
I TOTALLY understand. Dave is a master at throwing a wrench in my plans.
I think i can really understand. And sometime I m the Tim and sometimes Im you.
Grateful fo r all my blog pals . I love visiting here
Oh how I wish Tim could send a bit of that 'enthusiasm' to my hubby!!! When we moved into this old bungalow 22 years ago, one of the projects I had hoped we could do (royal 'we') was get the layers of paint off the old brass doorknob plates. I brought it up regularly. FINALLY...thank you COVID...someone was bored enough to actually tackle this project; there were only 16 plates, but he managed to stretch this out over two weeks. YAY!!! It's done!!!! Putting up outdoor Christmas lights always takes two or three days (while the entire inside is decorated in less than a day by guess who). After nearly 50 years my expectations are really low.
The flip side...he notices NOTHING! I may have shared with you about the time the kids and I moved all the furniture from the family room to the living and visa versa. He never noticed.
ENJOY !!!! that clean basement!!!!
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