As a bachelor, I subscribed to the belief that cleaning house was like going to war; it was to be conducted with forethought and seriousness of purpose, and only when no other alternative could be found. Cleaning with any kind of regularity would have interfered with vital activities like re-watching old movies on VHS, [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘home’
01/17/2009
Mr. Lucky!
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately and I blame Mother Nature. She’s decided that she doesn’t want anyone living in my part of the country any more, so she’s taken a page from the Slum Lord play book and is trying to run us all out by making the area uninhabitable. [...]
12/27/2008
Small Projects
My wife met me at the door when I came home and said, “Guess what came in the mail today?”
After more than two decades of marriage I know better than to give her a straight answer to a question like that. So I said, “I don’t know. My commitment papers?”
“No. I keep those [...]
09/11/2007
A Well-Run Household
You see them on TV all the time; houses which are nicer, cleaner, and more attractive than yours the same way a runway model is more appealing than any member of the 1972 East German Women’s Swim Team. The camera lovingly pans around showing scenes of impossible beauty like an elegant kitchen filled with matching [...]
08/25/2007
Repaint and Sin No More
Tuesday, 6:15 p.m.
I’m so excited. We’re going to repaint the bathroom and I want to blog the whole experience so that I won’t forget a single wonderful moment.
We need to repaint because the original color – the color we’ve lived with for the last fourteen years – is the exact same shade of yellow as [...]
