Chores That I Love

And if I dislike dish washing, I love doing the laundry. I get a high whenever I wash our dirty clothes. And I can do tons of dirty clothes in a a few hours only. Beat that. I told, that’s my favorite thing to do. When I was a child and we used to wash our clothes in the river. It was fun to me then, it seems like every time we will wash our clothes, we are going on a picnic. My favorite term then was “maglalaba sa ilog” (will wash the laundry on the river), it is synonymous to FUN. Grandma will wake us up early and tell us to prepare our clothes. They would bring breakfast and we all head to the nearest river. While they wash our dirty clothes, me and my sisters will play along the sand and swim on the river. It was one of my fondest memory in our province.

Maybe, that is the reason why I love doing the laundry. When it comes to hanging the clothes to dry, I have to excuse myself. Too much sun can damage my skin. I can’t have more acne. Though there are more and more  adult acne treatments available in the market. Prevention is always better than cure. So after I am done doing the laundry, I will call my helper (oh yes, even though I have two helpers now, I still wash our clothes) to hang the clothes outside.

Washing The Dishes

If there is one household chore that I hate so much, that is washing the dishes. Dishwasher is not a necessary appliance, to most people it’s luxury and to oldies, it means being lazy. When I was a kid, my grandmother forces us to do the dishes, I guess that is the reason why now, I don’t like doing it. It reminds of my childhood (which is not that good) and reminds me how it feels being in prison. I know it’s not  a big deal of a chore, but sometimes, I don’t feel like doing it. But I do not have a choice. I think I was too young to be exposed to such thinking that if you can’t do anything about just accept it.

And so I grew up with so much dislike to dish washing. Last year when I have no helper yet, our dirty dishes piles up in our kitchen sink.  And if we have nothing more to use, that is the only time that I will wash it. I was so stressed out with it that my face needed anti aging face cream.Yes, my face looked a lot older than my age because of dirty dishes piling in our kitchen sink. I almost resort to using plastic cups and plastic papers, if not for my love for the environment. Good thing now, I have two helpers, so dish washing is the least on my worries. What’s my favorite house chore? That will be the topic of my next post.

Couples Corner: WFH


Rodliz’s Nest

I am so sorry Marce Liz, I am so late in posting my entry this week. It says we have to talk about work, work and work. Or do we have? Er, reading it again, Liz says that this entry is not about work but if we as a couple talk about our jobs as the day ends.

Hubby is a software developer and he always say that his first love is the pc (and now mac LOL). It is seldom that you will see him not in front of his PC. And since I started blogging, I am too is always on the computer. Would you believe that sometimes, we would send ims to each other, even though we were just some meters away from each other. It’s not that we were busy to talk to each other, it’s a play thing for us. He would buzz and ask for a date when in fact he is just in our bedroom. It was really fun. And so do we talk about our jobs? Yes, specially if there is something trivial or funny on his job. On my part, he knows everything that is happening in blogniverse, how much paid post I have or how much will be on my paypal.

It really is important that couples update each other about their job. Specially to couples where the husband work in an office, you have to know how much stressed he is so you’ll know how to treat it. Maybe a little hair play will do (now, what kind of hair, go ask Marce Liz).

Another DVD

I think I will be needing another DVD player. We only have one and that one is in our bedroom. Downstairs, we have a small TV and broken DVD. Why do we need a DVD downstairs? I need that so I can do my aerokaebo. It’s a good carbo workout. Oh yes, I am here again, trying to lose weight. I know there are a lot of best weight loss supplements in the market and I am dying to use them but I still can’t. I am still breastfeeding so the next best thing for me is to burn fat, burn fat, burn fat. So DVD, here I come!

Water Update

The man who cut our service yesterday came back today and reconnect it. Apparently, they just put a tiny round plastic to stop the water from the main pipe (I was about to type tube LOL). It took him less than 5 minutes to reconnect it. So I asked the man, if that plastic round thing is the one that cost us $10. And he said no, it us not paying on time. I am, I know. But I am not that rude all the time. I remember once when someone knocked on our door to discuss about cheap insurance. I let them in and listened to what they have to say. But the one who cut our service was different, he was really rude to start with. Imagine he even asked if we have water supply when in fact he was the one who cut it the other day. How dumb can he be?

So you think I will let this pass. I even told him that I know now the reason why they charge us so high for reconnection fee, because the tools they use are all brand new and stainless steel.

I will never let this happen again.