Huh, apparently it's National Singles Week. Who knew? But, are these really the "The 10 Best Things About Being Single""? If so, I feel sorry for singles and marrieds alike.
1. You can make last-minute plans with your friends and stay out all night if you want.
2. You can lie on both sides of your bed and have all the covers to yourself.
3. You can flirt with the opposite sex without someone saying, "Who are you looking at?"
4. You can make your own decisions.
5. You don't have to remember your significant other's birthday or anniversary.
6. You have no one to clean up after.
7. You can leave the toilet seat permanently up if you're a man, or permanently down if you're a woman.
8. You can make a list of things you always wanted to do...and actually do them.
9. You can listen to your favorite radio station in the car.
10. You can actually hold on to the remote control.
If so, I feel sorry for singles and marrieds alike.
I have to agree there. What a miserable pinched life that implies for both sides.
What kind of chocolate (oh, your poor sister-I hope to never learn that) did you use?
Sorry for the response delay - I had to run out to an appointment. The icing had 16 oz of bittersweet chocolate, plus a large quantity of cocoa (1/2 cup? 1 cup?). Also nearly a pound of butter. Did I mention the overwhelmingness?
I'm glad to hear your cake turned out well. We did wonder if we were testing the "let's see if it's possible to have too much chocolate" version of the recipe. About how thick was the icing on your cake? It was about 1 cm thick (1/2 cm in between the layers) on ours.
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You know. If that means toilet seats and remotes to you.
I wept at this one:
8. You can make a list of things you always wanted to do...and actually do them.
I've never quite groked the toilet seat thing -- don't boys want it down half the time? If its half and half why the insistance on upness?
I've never understood why women are supposed to fuss over toilet seats being up. If the guy has to put them down for us, why shouldn't we have to put them up for him? Just don't sit down without looking.
I've never understood why women are supposed to fuss over toilet seats being up. If the guy has to put them down for us, why shouldn't we have to put them up for him? Just don't sit down without looking.
Personally, I think there's an aesthetic element to it.
don't boys want it down half the time?
More like one time out of six or seven, actually. I prefer my home toilet seat up as it looks better that way, but my office men's room is nicer with the seat down.
#1 is a pretty nice fringe benefit of being single, and I take #4 to mean that you can make all your big life decisions without having to compromise with a spouse over them—that'd be the gold medal winner for me. But the rest seem pretty trivial compared to the benefits of being part of a couple.
My parents just close the entire thing. that way, everybody has to do some work. Incidentally, if I'm at a guy's house and I put the seat down, I put it back up when I leave.
