Office Work, Part Deux: Professional Mayhen

[pbjmaker]

Oh yeah its the socks thing here too. He has three kinds of socks in his drawer but if there are no "white" ones apparently the black ones are just invisible or something. They are the same kind of socks, just black or white. And no one can see them he works for the National Guard so his boots cover them up.

Technically he is supposed to wear the black.

I can have them all washed and in a basket IN the bedroom and he still can't find them.

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

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Better woman than I am. Mine knows better than to try that! Heck, even when he is JUST home from being deployed and he's not really back into normal life again, and yeah right he is NOT cooking anything, the dishes are at least washed and laundry is washed and dried, if not ironed.

Actually, he LOVES doing those things when he first gets home because there isn't sand on them again .4 seconds later. I also fully allow him to slack around, do only what he wants for a while and play with the kids. I've played single mother for long enough, another few weeks doesn't kill me and DH does better with it.

However, in NORMAL times if he's home and I'm not, any comments about things not being done means his crap is NEVER done until I'm not ticked anymore.

Then treat him like your average bored child. "I'm so bored" means he must want to clean something.

 

[sparkles2307]

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He buys socks all the time and never the same ones twice so finding matches is a bear. and if they DONT match he freaks out. and he doesnt like the way i fold socks. So I just wash them all and make a giant pile in his corner of the couch so he can't sit down till he folds them.

However, I will admit that this week I am behind on our load of whites......

 

[sparkles2307]

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Better woman than I am. Mine knows better than to try that! Heck, even when he is JUST home from being deployed and he's not really back into normal life again, and yeah right he is NOT cooking anything, the dishes are at least washed and laundry is washed and dried, if not ironed.

Actually, he LOVES doing those things when he first gets home because there isn't sand on them again .4 seconds later. I also fully allow him to slack around, do only what he wants for a while and play with the kids. I've played single mother for long enough, another few weeks doesn't kill me and DH does better with it.

However, in NORMAL times if he's home and I'm not, any comments about things not being done means his crap is NEVER done until I'm not ticked anymore.

Then treat him like your average bored child. "I'm so bored" means he must want to clean something.

I almost assigned him a task... but he'd follow those instructions about as well as "come home from the bar" so why bother?

 

[pbjmaker]

ChickenAlgebra I totally agree with you when they come home from deployment the need to decompress. BUT I hate when my husband has been sent off to school where he has a maid and can get his laundry done and there is constant peace and quiet and he expects the same when he gets home.

He will also try and give me orders, he has found that usually gets the opposite affect.

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

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Yeah, he tried that a few times when he was younger and I didn't have small children who instantly repeated what filthy terms came out of my mouth.

He learned. Tho he's deployed for 10 months, he sometimes forgets. He does however now respond to the filthy glare I've developed from raising children.

 

[debilorrah]

I really want to make a snarky comment. I won't but boy do I want to, and NOT to anyone on this thread.

 

[pbjmaker]

What's up Debi/

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

I may be a horrible parent. I got Thomas and Patrick to sleep by playing The Scorpion Sleeps repeatedly. I think it's bad parenting to expose infants to Rob Zombie. More than they usually are exposed to by siblings that is.

 

[dacjohns]

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That's where x is currently stationed.

I wonder if I have friends down there. Which post?