I’ve been thinking about lot about how my relationship works. There are some quirks that come to mind. Some of these I am sure other couples can relate with having similar experiences.
Ricky does the cooking and I do the clean up. Seems fair. The laundry is a waiting game. I usu6lose and start the laundry because I need something like underwear or t-shirts.
Clean the house usually falls on me, though he will pitch in on occasion. I just finished packing up all the Halloween stuff and clearing the guest room for company arriving today.
Ricky does all the bills through a bill pay app from the bank. A few bills come to me and get paid through account transfers. We argue about the payments every month. Some how they miss his “budget” or are entered with the wrong amounts. Fun stuff. Of course it’s my fault, because I don’t have access to the bank app. Every payday we go through the same routine.
Then there are the quirky things. We run the dishwasher at night. In the morning I make the coffee and unusual empty the dishwasher. Attually, the dish sterilizer because I pretty much wash them by hand first. Anyway, in the middle of my unload he pipes up and says I can do that….to which I reply it’s already done now, thank you.
He is also a stickler to expiration dates and is constantly throwing things out of the pantry or the fridge. To be honest I don’t know where all this stuff comes from with year or more expired dates on them. But there seems to be an endless supply. must be time travel. Maybe I show climb in the pantry and come out years younger.
Ricky takes care of the yard. I take care of the ring cameras keeping the batteries charged. I also organize the garage and the closets. Which leads to “searching” expeditions for things i have hidden from him in my attempt to tidy things up.
Then there is the setting of his watch. My syncs with my phone but his requires an internet instruction manual an multiple attempts at push the button in the right sequence. Why we don’t just look at our phones or one of the many clocks in the house beats me.
Of course, every clock has a different time. The mantle clock runs slow. The cuckoo clock stops with the weights on the floor. And how do you set the one on the oven. The alarm clock has a battery back up but it still flashes after a power outage. It uses a transistor radio battery and never gets replaced in time to be useful. Do people know what transistor radio is anymore? I set the alarm on my phone to be safe.
This post is trivial. I guess the point is don’t sweat the trivial things in life. Being there for each other is enough. When we went out for Halloween and Ricky got drunk to the point of throwing up, I was there to pick him up off the floor and get him to bed…..and clean up the mess. He fell on a plant in the bedroom and broke the flower pot. He thought he broke the windows. His tail bone is still sore.
Even in his stopper he argued with me that he could get himself up. I should have took pictures it was funny and sad.
Enough. Hope you all had a happy Halloween, stay safe and remember to vote!
