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Stacyc625
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Why 'Y' chromosone.... WHY do they do the things they do??
Stacyc625
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This is more of a rant than anything---
It goes WITHOUT fail that before we throw a party or event- DH HAS to do the most mundane and quite honestly STUPID things....
either decide it is time to clean the basement out- or take apart the dryer to clean the vent out... we are TALKING hours before a party.
Why do they do this?
Why can the ONLY men that can successfully throw a party be gay? ~
Last night- I had a to do list of things that I needed to get done before Gisele's birthday party this weekend.
What does DH decide is important???--- taking the letters off of Chase's wall- which in turns rips all of the paint off the wall. I wigged out- and his response- I can paint his room tomorrow night (friday).
WTF? really?
How about you reorganize your toolbox while you are at it?
::sigh::
So now- Chase's room needs to eventually get painted (after the party)-- which WAS on the to-do list (to be accomplished within a month or so.....)
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Re: Why 'Y' chromosone.... WHY do they do the things they do??
My DH does this too!!! It's like the have no ability to prioritize and they just start working on whatever they see in front of their face.
Once before one of our parties, DH was tasked with outdoor things (make sure the patio furniture was cleaned off, etc.) I was running around organizing and cleaning and realized that I hadn't seen him in a while. He was in our room reorganizing his dresser drawers. (It started with bringing his laundry up and he must have gotten caught up in the moment;-)
Then he doesn't get why I am all up in arms because he is "cleaning something". Which would have been all well and good if we were going to give our guests a tour of his drawers. Sigh. . .
Yes! Yes! This is my husband to a tee! Without fail, he decides to "organize" the storage room, which is right across from the guest room, the night before we have a house guest. Then he leaves huge piles of crap in the hall and goes off to work the next day, and the kicker is he then gets mad at me for throwing it all back in the storage room. Like I'm going to leave it all there for our guest to navigate around at 3:00 a.m on his was to the bathroom.
He also loves to do his laundry 3 hours before company comes and hang his wool socks to dry all over the house. And again gets mad at me when I gather them all up and throw them in the closet. Because nothing says "welcome" like a bunch of socks dangling from the furniture.
I could go on and on.
I recently saw this with my H too. My brother was doing a brick walkway for us the same weekend H was supposed to poly the wood floor in the kitchen. My brother was already working and I was leaving at 1:30 to bring Parker to her ball game. DH was going to do the poly at that point and then we were sleeping at my dad's b/c of the fumes. DH asks at 10:30 if he could move the fridge out of the kitchen.
No DH- let's not disrupt more things than need be at this point okay. Plus I didn't want to spend the next three hours keeping an 18 month old away from the coils in the back of the fridge. Thanks.
DH does this EVERY single party/get together without FAIL~
I have been with him for 11yrs so this is NOT a surprise. I have tried everthing I can think of to just keep him from doing something REALLY ridiculous.
We had a NYE/DH bday party one year when we were dating and he decided 4hrs before we were to have guests over that he wanted to replace the sink in the powder room.
I like to dub DH's problem - Party Tourettes.
UGH, here to!
H gets in "work mode" and just goes over board. He will mop the kitchen floors for me and then decide that all the cabinets need to get organized, and then he remembers he wanted to hand something up, then he freaks out because a tool is missing, this leads him to the fan somehow and he dusts the dirt off t and onto our clean floors! Guest are on the way and he is now dirty (and so is the floor) and looking for a nail still.
Seriously?! I'm sorry, but that is hysterical! Clean out your drawers b/c you were putting clothes away I can understand. Replace the bathroom sink? Sometimes you just have to wonder what is going on inside their heads!
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I kind of wish I had this problem. I can't get H to do ANYTHING without asking him 10 times. *I* had to clean out his toolbox. Although, he has absolutely no sense of time. If he had the drive, he would totally want to replace a sink 4 hours before a party because he would think, oh, it'll just take a minute. If we need to be somewhere by a certain time he doesn't understand why I give us an hour to feed DS, pack the diaper bag, round up the animals, get DS into his carseat, etc. He expects it all to take 5 minutes and looks at me like I'm crazy.
lol...my husband does this too. He decided to fix a crack in the drywall the week after our oldest was born. This required ripping down the existing drywall, putting up new stuff, sanding, and painting...with a 10 day old baby in the house.
Lurking from WM, but I had to say that my husband does this, too. For him, I say it's like that book "If you Give a Mouse a Cookie." You know what I mean? Like, if you give the mouse the cookie, he needs a glass of milk to go with it. Then he needs a napkin, etc.
My husband's favorite thing to do is to start laundry when we have guests coming. I'm trying to frantically pick up / clean to make things presentable. Laundry is NOT critical at that point. Then, he gets downstairs to do the laundry and decides to reorganize the life jackets for the boat, etc.
I'm glad I'm not the only one with that problem.