I planned to fix teriyaki chicken for supper tonight – you know, actually cook real food while my brother’s here, instead of something lame like hot dogs. So I thawed three chicken breasts in the microwave, then set the dish in the sink so as not to spread bacteria whilst I rinsed and removed the [...]
Tag Archive > desperate housewife
The only apples worth having are Granny Smiths and computers
Everything that could have gone wrong did.
I speak of painting over the pink floral and blue appled wallpaper in the guest bathroom.
Sunday I primed. A quart of prime was supposed to cover a 10×10 room. Our bathroom is much smaller than 10×10. Even though I only applied a very thin coat of primer, I ran [...]
The absent-minded not-professor
Wednesday, 7:45 AM
Lisa, drinking coffee at her computer, startles as Jeff’s voice bellows from upstairs: “Were the heck are my keys?”
This is much funnier if you know that just the night before Lisa, in a fit of what Alyssa would call “drawing lines to read between,” accused Jeff of trashing her house by leaving his [...]
Green-thumbed Girl
“How housewifely of you!” Jeff said with some surprise when I told him I’d spent part of my day weeding the garden. How housewifely, indeed. I’d never weeded a garden before today, and considering the way I tend to butcher things like cooking and have a history of killing mums, I approached the task with [...]
Laundered Technology
Another housekeeping disaster has occurred in the Burt household, this time related only to the kitchen in that the laundry room is attached to the kitchen. Yes – it was a laundry accident. Yes – LR does the laundry. No – it was not LR’s fault. It’s Mr. Burt’s responsibility to empty his jeans pockets [...]
