My childhood training was that whoever cooked dinner was let off from dish duty.
Right? Isn't that how it's supposed to work? The SO has taken to cooking more often now that we're in this house with the awesome kitchen. And I'm happy to clean up after him. But part of the problem is with our personalities, because he's a clean cook and I'm a messy one. He washes each pot during cooking, so by the time you finish eating, the only dishes are the eating and serving dishes. I, on the other hand, enter the kitchen, there is a great cloud of ingredients possibly including flour on multiple surfaces, and from the cloud emerges food. And then I clean everything up. But, you know, later. This is a conflict for us. So it's not a fair distribution of labor if one cooks and one cleans.
My favorite was when three people cooked, used pretty much every cutting board, knife, grater and mixing bowl in the kitchen, and figured I'd do all the cleaning since I was the only one who didn't help cook.
hmm. Guess I'm still mad. I came in here to share a funny. Have you googled Recursion?
IUD Saga, part 836:
It was shipped and I have a tracking number. It is scheduled to get to the OB/GYN tomorrow. The OB/GYN's office closes at 3, so I am going to be obsessively refreshing the tracking until I know it's there. (Right now it's in Columbus, OH, so I am assuming it will make it, but at this point, I just don't want to assume any damn thing any more.)
In the event that anyone still needs one, I just got some Dreamwidth invite codes.
I got my new bike and just went for a ride around the block. Fun! However, do bikes now not have kickstands? I had to lean it against the wall when I got home. Also, I can't go more than about two blocks in any direction without hitting some ridiculously steep hills. I think I'm going to get a bike rack for my car so that I can drive to a park with a bike path.
I have seen new bikes wih kickstands but it's weird that they're not standard anymore.
Well, bike manufacturers are trying to make bikes as light as possible. Taking off a kickstand is an easy way to remove a lot of excess weight. I'm pretty sure that's the reasoning.
I asked on facebook where to get a car rack. A guy I went to high school with, who currently lives in Utah and lists his occupation as "professional ski bum," responded with links within minutes. I guess ski bums become mountain bikers in the summer.
Vermont passes single-payer health care. Not soon enough for askye, unfortunately.
I saw that and one reason I love this state. It's going to take a while to enact anyway, they have to get a waiver from the Feds and the soonest that can happen is 2014 or 2017, depending. So right now it's just going to be a lot of studies and things to put it into motion.
And of course there are the people who think this is going to lead to financial ruin for the state but it's nice to live in a state where health care is considered a right by the majority and not one that's trying to sell off the state to the highest bidder.
