The idea of curling up on my cuddle lounge and watching something on TiVo or listening to my iPod while I wirelessly surf the web on my Powerbook while Roomba scoots around and does my vacuuming...hot.

Agreed, but I intend to be watching a movie or surfing the web on Mr. Jane's PSP, or watching something I downloaded on the pod.

I'm quite expert at believing two contradictory things at once. They better not make computers that can do that too.

I think Douglas Adams already thought this one up. It was an electric monk. Of course it turned murderous.

The idea of curling up on my cuddle lounge and watching something on TiVo or listening to my iPod while I wirelessly surf the web on my Powerbook while Roomba scoots around and does my vacuuming...hot.

AIFG

Damn this waiting around until the kids are old enough to be useful as manual domestic labor... I think I have at least 4 years to wait.

Ha hah aha ha ha ha ha ha aha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

flea, mine are 15 and 12 and they haven't learned to mop. I so fail as a mother.

I'm twenty-nine and the first mother-child spat of my recent visit home (hey, there were only two total) was over floor-mopping, which I did not do adequately.

MOM, LATER: I never taught you to mop a floor, did I?
ME: Not really. I did attend an Ivy League college, though.
MOM, SADLY: Well, there's that.

My mom and I have had that same discussion- not really a spat, but I was telling her that I bought a book on housekeeping. She was all apologetic that she hadn't taught me that, and I told her that she taught me how to read and look something up when I didn't know it, so it all worked out.

Timelies all!

I don't want to think about how my cat would react to either a Roomba or a Sccoba. Oh, wait. She'd just hide under the bed, since that's her default reaction to new stuff.

I really would rather not be doing the barcoding I'm doing.

People should entertain me instead.

She was all apologetic that she hadn't taught me that, and I told her that she taught me how to read and look something up when I didn't know it, so it all worked out.

That's awesome.

I'm twenty-nine and the first mother-child spat of my recent visit home (hey, there were only two total) was over floor-mopping, which I did not do adequately.

My dad has to stop us and re-instruct us on how to sweep properly every time he stuck a broom in our hands.

My mother never tried to teach me that stuff. But the woman we had to do the cooking and the cleaning also had childminding as her responsibility, so you pick stuff up. It's not like we had TV to watch, or anything.