Gary explains MEN AND women and some persnickity differences....

We have had a change around here.  I volunteered to take over a few of the wife's housekeeping duties, which will be explained here, and adds to what I do now, which includes the daily cooking and sweeping and cat litter patrol, scrubbing the terlet and vacuuming.  I will now do her dusting and some other things, saying "I will do them, but that does not mean I will do them well". THAT is the crux of the matter!

The wife is very careful about details. She is a bookkeeper after all, and if a button is missing on an old sweater?  Or  a small tear?  She will go out to buy a button and sew on a patch before donating it to the Salvation Army.  I myself as a guy would never even NOTICE missing buttons or a tear. Plus, of course, Sally's is getting it for free, right?  But she is virtuous about it, with an eye for detail.
The other day the wife is like "I cleaned all the crumbs out of the microwave!" with that triumphant wifely tone...which goes hand in hand with that tone of "maybe you should clean crumbs out of the microwave sometimes yerself!".  I am no dummy though, so I open the 'wave and to my masculine eyes it looks the SAME as it always does, but I enthuse "WOW! Amazing!".  One of those white lies men need to practice...

That is why we have changed her weekly household tasks.  The poor woman is a professional bookkeeper...and she is also MY bookkeeper.  Obviously people who notice crumbs in the microwave are good with numbers.  Her new weekly thing is now labeled SPECIAL PROJECTS.  So she does our books and...whatever catches her eye*.... like yesterday?  Scrubbing the dials on the stovetop with a q-tip.  That one had never occured to me either, and naturally I was like "WOW! Amazing!" *(I suspect special projects will probably include, some weeks, following her husband around and redoing the sh!tty job he did on the dusting and vacuuming)

But today the difference between men and women seemed especially clear.  The wife tells me with that triumphant tone "I stirred the peanut butter!", and you will recall that this tone has an element of "how come you never stir the peanut butter?".
I go through 2 jars of Wegman's organic chunky every week.  I did NOT know you were supposed to...stir it?  I thought you put it on things and ate it.
She continues "you know how its runny on top and thick on the bottom?" and I think to myself "well, it always spreads easily when it is a new jar but at the bottom is like old gorilla glue" and I thought it was just the way life was!  Full of surprises!
I fake her out with "How clever!  Stirring the peanut butter!" and she is like "it seperates, the oil stays on top and needs to be stirred down" and I am thinking "it does? Do they teach this in school and I was out that day?" but I fake her out again by saying "Wow! Amazing!" and I buy some time with "Hey, your hair sure is curly today!".  Just don't get her started on the subject of TP and whether it hangs toward the wall or....gosh, just so long as it is there when you need it does it have to be aerodynamically placed?  Anyway....


In other news, speaking of wives and marital cooperation, we made avocado quesadillas last night!  GOOD golly that is yummy... basically, take any filling you like, and this time we did salsa, avocado and roasted potato, fold a bit into the middle of a tortilla NOT TOO FULL and fold it like an envelope, adding a bit of cheese (we use vegan cheese) to each fold, so that when you fry it in a pan it will melt and hold together into those cute little packages you see on my plate...about the tastiest thing on earth!
Note the wife's CURLY HAIR....
I also had an aging zuccini....I make so much zuccini bread when they are ripe in summer, but soooo good anytime....
have a great Monday!