When Photo Chemicals meet Paint Stripper
I love my wife. Gotta love her since she puts up with me and all my quirks (and vice versa). She is creative, compassionate, caring, knows how to cook a minute steak and actually grins when I make bachelor food and pretends to enjoy eating it.
Over the course of our marriage we have learned to give and take and have made a lot of adjustments. We both have a lot of "projects". She tends to work on the house which usually involves painting things. Well, actually painting everything. In my wife's world 'beige' is a naughty word. So when she has a day off, she is usually priming, painting, stripping or something related to it.
In my world, I am usually in the garage underneath my car, or doing some woodworking, developing film or working on the lawn / garden. It is safe to say that our two worlds are mutually exclusive.
When these two worlds overlap, it is sort of like matter and anti-matter colliding. Stripping paint does not go well with developing film, and removing light fixtures to paint around them is not conducive to tracking down an electrical problem in the Lotus.
I am a long time civil servant, which means I get about 4 days off a month (hey, I have earned it!). My wife works for a very good employer that values her employees more than making money (I used to work for an employer like that back in the 70s!) and she usually gets one day off a week. So we have come to the conclusion that we should NEVER take the same day off. When we do, the matter and anti-matter collide and it is not pretty. My wife does her thing on her day off, I do mine on my day off and never the two shall met.
If you see a bright flash or feel the earth rumble there is a 50/50 chance that it is an earthquake or my wife and I have scheduled the same day off to work on projects.
Love the post - it is so true.
ReplyDeleteJeff has his work computer and I have the home computer. We often find ourselves sitting at the same table - both on our computers. That way there is no worries about him hogging my time and vice versa.
We discovered that our TV has a split screen. That really comes in handy. I can watch my show with volume and Jeff can watch his sports no volume. Perfect match!
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Whatever it takes to make things smoother in marriage land is worth it!
you just described my marriage perfectly... my friends dont understand how i have so much time to "myself" now that im married, but i say that it is that "alone" time that makes the marriage work..
ReplyDeleteThis is so true. In order for us to feel like we spend some time together...We will sit on the couch together and watch tv. Okay, really I watch what I want and John plays on his laptop and occasionally glances up. Good quality marriage time, I tell ya.
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