Love and Marriage–The Perfect System
We have a weird dynamic in the house. MRS handles pretty much everything: pays the bills, buys the girls’ clothes (well, organizes everything relative to the girls), does the laundry, cooks, travels a ton for work, puts up with my crap, and (aside from that special week that rolls around every month) is a damn fine wife.
So here’s the rub, her ultimate contradiction; she either can’t, or refuses to, put anything back in the same place twice.
If I had a nickel for every time she said, “Where are my sunglasses?� when we’ve gotten in the car, well…I’d have a bunch of nickels.
I’ve had to learn to channel surf telepathically because that stupid clicker has never sat in any one location a second time. (((Side note: someone please come out with a 4 or 5 tuner DVR in a hurry. MRS has so many shows set for series recordings ((hardly any of which she will ever watch (including eleven different versions of Law & Order that air in perpetuity on seven different networks)) that any time I attempt to change the channel, the DVR just prompts me, DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT.)))
MRS finally started leaving her keys in the car to end that continuous madness. (Second side note: please don’t steal our car.)
But my personal favorite is our DVD collection. That’s a damn fine mess. I have a better chance of guessing the next song on my IPOD in shuffle mode than finding the Madagascar DVD for THREE to watch.
So, I’ve pretty much resigned myself to a life of total guesswork and mystery. It’s always interesting. It’s often annoying. It’s never predictable.
At least I don’t have to pay the bills.
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I don’t have to pay the bills either and it is a lovely arrangement.
Though i am not quite as scattered as MRS, I do have issues with keeping the remote in one place. And yes, it was PERFECTLY logical the day I accidently put it away in the cupboard….
So….are you sayin’ that you’re perpetually disorganized too? Cuz’ what’s stopping you from diving in and alphabetizing those DVDs, hmmmmmm?!
Oh yeah – the DVR thing is a constant battle in my house too. Except my hubby will make what he refers to as a “judgement call” to cancel my recordings so he can watch yet another documentary on Discovery or History Channel. Anything remotely resembling “reality tv” gets nixed every time!! And I’m probably better off without it….I guess.
Gosh, I wish my husband would blog sometimes, I would love to see what he would say about me.
I often wonder how much of my valuable memory is used storing random information like where things are, so I can tell my husband or children, when they are too lazy to look.
Eyie, there is nary a day where I attempt to watch TV when the crew is home. I am better off away from their remote scramble and battle for possesion. I am available as a neutral party to settle the bickering. That is why I have the Comcast remote and my hi-def remote, the hi-def remote is put away well in advance of the ensuing medlam!
-MileHighDad
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I loved reading this post, it made me laugh because the story sounds so familiar . . .
My husband swears he’s going to put a string on my hairbrush and tie it around me like a necklace. (It’s odd where that thing is found. I swear it has legs…)
You gotta love those little quirks!
Kim @ http://www.mommysjibberjabber.wordpress.com
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