I know it’s only been less than four months since we got married, and we’re both still adjusting. So pardon me for saying this, but I think I found it out the hard way that you really shouldn’t send a man to do a woman’s job.
Maybe it’s just my husband, but for some reason, I always end up with modified results of my grocery list every time I send him shopping. Tell him to buy chicken breasts, he brings home chicken legs. Put “2 cans of coconut milk†on the list, and he buys three! I can’t remember even a single instance when I sent Marc to the grocery and he brings home exactly the ones on my list.
I remember Markku asking me at the Ituloy AngSulong party last Friday how marriage is suiting me. My answer? “OMG, you’re not going to believe the pile of dirty dishes we have at home!†Markku was, as expected, amused. I mean, yeah, why in the world would we leave dirty dishes piled up for three days right?
Ask my husband. And he’ll tell you that it’s because washing only a few dirty dishes is “not challenging.†Ok fine. Dirty dishes, I can live with. There are times that I just couldn’t take seeing the pile of dirty dishes anymore that I eventually wash them myself.
But I don’t really know what to make of this:
Can somebody please be nice enough and tell my husband that no matter how long you put an ice tray inside the refrigerator, it won’t freeze unless you put it in the freezer?!!
And now, he has a rat fixation. I won’t be surprised if he starts buying different kinds of mouse traps and setting them up all over the house. As for me, I think I’ll just add “mouse traps of different kinds†to our grocery list so I would make myself believe that at least one item on my list was bought.
ouch!
for me, grocery shopping is only slightly less terrifying than cooking. i don’t really know what the things i’m buying do, so i don’t know if i’m buying something that sounds really similar, or the right thing, since i don’t know the distinction.
one of the tricks that i’ve heard of, but never used, involves either stapling an old label from the correct product to the list (with a note like “two of these”),
or typing the list, and inserting pictures of the items from t3h intarwebs.
@adam: great idea!!! I think stapling old labels will do the trick… Because honestly, I don’t think he’ll like it if I used up his precious printer’s ink! 😀
You know leaving plates a couple of days maybe the thing that attracts the rats. 🙂
@Juned: uggh.. tell that to Marc! wahhhh
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The same complained I got to my wife everytime she asked me to do groceries.lol She always says when I was the one doing the groceries it always over the budget.:)
Hahahaha welcome to the ONE TRUE MALE reality show.
Ang solution namin is to split the grocery — he buys the meat and chicken; I buy the fish and dry food. And we shop separately. Hehehehe
@jlois: hehe. You’re telling me. Ours become over-the-budget too!
@Connie: hahahaha pwede rin!
Gail, in defense of Marc, the water in the tray can freeze even if it’s just inside the ref and not in the freezer.
Remember that freezing point is also pressure-dependent, not just temperature. If we were to take your ref to a different environment, water could freeze (or boil) even at room temperature.
You have a genius for a husband dear, you should give him one of those special rewards. =) Hehehe.