Ha, I know that feel! I really dislike doing the dishes, but I seem to be the only one in this house doing them right :-P
Problem is, if you read some news, actuall poilitics is even worse than anything you could find in fiction. Most time it feels like: "Let me proof i can top that novel, movie, etc."
Over the weekend we got a box of gourmet doughnuts. Of course, if either myself or wife has anything, the kid wants some, too. I was about to start on one of the doughnuts and the kid was just after eater her lunch (which included a doughnut of her own), so I thought I may have been safe. Not so. She saw me holding it and started walking towards me, arms outstretched. I tried to say, "No, this one isn't for you." and started walking away. She came after me, the same look of determination, arms outstretched. "No, this isn't for you." I said again, walking away to the kitchen. She still followed me with her grasping hands held out. "No, no, no - it's not for you!" I said, retreating into the kitchen and pushing the box to the back of the countertop to keep it out her reach. I looked round and, "Oh, my god..." she was still after me and without breaking stride she was already pushing a chair up to the ledge so she could climb up. She still had that same blank look of determination. Thankfully I managed to distract her with something else. It was like a scene from Night of the Living Dead.
Due to there being no flights from the UK for the past few months the shops are finally out of chocolate. First went the Cadbury's, then the Milka, then the fancier Lindt and equivalents. The Hershey's section remains fully stocked as it comes in on freighters from the US, but this is no help to those of us that are looking for chocolate.
TIL that this emoji does not refer to Hershey's kisses"chocolate". I have a sad. It is entirely appropriate as a descriptor for what Hershey's call their brown sweetened goop.
Today 2020 brings us *rolls dice* the largest Saharan dust plume in over 50 years hitting the Caribbean. Well, it beats a hurricane, and at least everyone already owns masks!
I just read through this madness, so now you will read it too http://www.combatreform.org/m113combat.htm
The wife's mother is driving us mad, lately. When wife was a child, her mother got listed as an "overanxious mother" by the doctor because she always thought there was something wrong with wife, when there was really nothing. She always resented that label but we've come to know that it was well deserved. She would just love for there to be something wrong with our kid. If kid shows any personality quirks whatsoever, wife's mother says "Yeah, there's something not right, isn't there...". She's almost 2 years old, so she won't exactly be sitting still to read fucking War and Peace, will she? Because she likes to be active, wife's mother suggests "Ooh, she might have ADHD..." Sometimes the kid likes to line up her toys when she's playing, so wife's mother says, "Ooh, she might be autistic..." Wife gets her mother on a video call at about 5:30pm, a short time away from kid's bed time so her eyes are getting heavy. The mother sees this and says, "Look at the way she's blinking - she needs to get her eyes tested!" It's getting crazy. Here is the best one, yet: Kid's been having nightmares, so sometimes wakes up at night, screaming. Wife's mother suggests, "Maybe the room is haunted." I wish I was kidding, or that she was only joking. She was completely serious. I mean, let's assume for a moment that the room is haunted. What the hell does she expect us to do about it?!
You go full horror movie doing it by yourselves. Or you call professionals to get rid of it. Collateral damages to be expected... I prefer (and do) the hard way of cutting ties with such obnoxious people. Even family.
Reminds me of a story with my first kid about 5 yrs ago (she was 2 at the time) : on a sunday we were at wife's parent home (wich is 124m away from our home...) and kid was having a high temperature, like 39°C and crying. My wife and her mother were like calling ER, helo, beam the kid up to Bones and the like. Me : kid is responsive so give kid a dose of Paracetamol and wait for 1h, then take temperature again (i've been a certified first responder since 2009) Wife and co. call every possible doctor, medical house, trying to have an adress on a sunday, complaining that our countryside area is left without a "medical watch" and so on and so foth... Eventually they call the 15, wich is a french medical emergency number with doctors assessing the situation. Doc says "kid is responsive, so give kid Paracetamol, wait an hour, check temperature, continue with Paracetamol for 24h to be sure". Curse ignorant people !
While we're talking about family stuff, at SK Towers we've been trying to redecorate for some time. It's a gradual process; our mistake was moving in to this place before we redecorated (mind you, the flat were wife and I used to stay was awful: damaged plumbing at the street level and a bad case of mold). We don't know what the previous occupants used to hang up their wallpaper, but it's like they'd used superglue. We've tried so many chemical strippers to shift the damn stuff to no avail. Just today I made a suggestion for a stripping fluid we hadn't tried yet. It worked. Water. God-damn tap water...
Seems like it was good wallpaper glue, that stuff is often water based and somehow does only move if you reapply water ^^
If you want a tip of someone who had done all sort of redecorations. The best way to remove wallpapers had been spraying with warm water with some dish soap. A pump spray bottle with that mix is most time what i used. PS. I hate wallpapers. Never going to hang up some motive or picture wallpapers that have to be axactly aligned again. That stuff will drive you nuts. Two times have been enough.
