My MIL used to always do laundry, dishes, you name it, whenever she visited when the kids were little. She still does the dishes when she comes to the house. I know it is out of love and she can get away with it on that basis. She also does a really good job of cleaning.
Buffy: Dancing with you is way better than trying to hook up with some good-looking guy. Xander: I think I liked it more when you were kicking me in my puffy groin.
'Get It Done'
Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Laura - Jan 15, 2017 3:26:19 pm PST #28763 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
SuziQ - Jan 15, 2017 4:45:39 pm PST #28764 of 30002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I struggle with the dishwasher loading issue just about daily with C living in the house. He loads it completely differently than I do. But hey, he is loading it, the dishes come out clean, so I've given up on rearranging it constantly.
Steph L. - Jan 15, 2017 5:10:59 pm PST #28765 of 30002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I wouldn't load the dishwasher if it were a few days of dishes. I do totally get it that people are picky about how their dishwasher is loaded, but it was a full 2 weeks worth, and it needed to be done.
I promise I won't load alla y'alls' dishwashers.
DavidS - Jan 15, 2017 5:40:50 pm PST #28766 of 30002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I have no dishwasher so that won't be an issue.
We do hand washed artisanal dishwashing around here.
meara - Jan 15, 2017 5:45:34 pm PST #28767 of 30002
My roommate overloads the dishwasher. But probably if you had done that I would just go behind you and remove some dishes and rewash them later. Virgo.
Steph L. - Jan 15, 2017 5:50:52 pm PST #28768 of 30002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I have no dishwasher so that won't be an issue.
We have a great dishwasher. (SPOILER: it's me.)
We do hand washed artisanal dishwashing around here.
Ours is free-range, locally sourced, small-batch dishwashing.
billytea - Jan 15, 2017 7:30:35 pm PST #28769 of 30002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Truly are you two the Four Yorkshiremen for the hipster generation.
Beverly - Jan 16, 2017 1:26:26 am PST #28770 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
We do hand washed artisanal dishwashing around here.
As do we. One better: when the inlaws moved into their new house, MiL had the perfectly functioning dishwasher taken out, and replaced with a stack of cabinet drawers. H and I both come from a long line of artisinal by-hand dishwashers.
Calli - Jan 16, 2017 3:39:46 am PST #28771 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I love my mechanical dishwasher. Barring a total societal-technological breakdown, I plan to never live anywhere without one. And Steph is welcome to load mine up at any time, as I don't care about how it's loaded, as long as I get clean dishes at the end of it. (Plus that would mean we'd have a Steph visiting the Trianglistas, and how cool would that be?)
askye - Jan 16, 2017 5:18:36 am PST #28772 of 30002
Thrive to spite them
I want to have a dishwasher so bad. Mom got a second hand portable dishwasher that hooks up to the sink but it wasn't compatible for some reason.
So we hand wash dishes. And there is always a fuss over how to deal with the dirty dishes (I think they should go in the sink, Mom thinks they should be stacked next to the sink) and what to use to wash dishes, I prefer a sponge and she likes those blue and white flimsy dishcloths that make me shudder every time I have to touch them in the water.