Some people are slightly anal retentive. First, I want you to see a listing:
Electrician - Stove hood, door bell, back floodlights
HVAC - Service heat pump
Cable Provider - Work out details of high-speed internet
Garage door - Have gears replaced in CC's garage door opener
Mail - June 2011 estimated Federal & State Taxes
Want to know where it came from? Well, the evening before Hunky Husband left for Joplin, he handed me that list. Really! Now, I always make myself a list of things to get done while HH is out from under foot; but, he thinks I need help with the list?! (There are several things on my list that are not on HH's, but only two things on HH's, door bell and high-speed internet, were not on mine.) Adding insult to injury, the list was accompanied by a calendar sheet for June 2011 with every fourth day marked "cut grass" and every Thursday marked "trash" or "trash+recycle". My chin still hurts from hitting the floor when my jaw dropped at being handed the two pieces of paper. Seriously!
Oh...I nearly forgot. At the bottom of the calendar sheet are the instructions, "If going out of town - stop mail, stop papers, ask neighbor to get in weird Wednesday paper." Wait'll I hand him my bill when he gets back!
Oh, well. I am, as always, getting a lot done while HH is out of town. Today's sigh of relief is for having cleaned out the refrigerator. This is what our refrigerator looks like when it has been freshly cleaned.
Actually, I won't say a word to HH about his lists and schedules when he gets home. I have something really evil in mind. In payment, he will be subjected to a mind game about which I won't even feel guilty.
A couple of days ago, I reversed the swing on a couple of the lower cabinet doors in the kitchen. When/if he says anything I will merely say, "That's the way the cabinet people hung those doors!" What I won't remind him is that I had had the cabinet people re-hang the doors to open the opposite way. Now that I've used them for 11.5 years, I've decided to try the doors their way!
P.S. I wish that our refrigerator looked as my refrigerator did when I lived in Albuquerque. I always had apples and cheddar cheese in that refrigerator; but, usually, not much else. That was great!
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