Mom - 5, Me - 0 (or -43574085)
Apr. 26th, 2006 12:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I think we all knew this already, but my mom pwns me. Since she has been here (~5 days), she has:
1) Cleaned out my garage (Yes! You can actually park two cars in there now!)
2) Cleaned my kitchen (The Campbell's soup boiled over, Mom, and I didn't know what to do with the stove after that)
3) Rearranged/tidied my cupboards (So that's where all the lids to the Tupperware containers went!)
4) Tidied up my room (I'd almost forgotten what it's like to not trip over something in the middle of the night on my way to the bathroom)
5) Weeded the front garden area (Those were weeds?! And I thought they were kind of pretty...)
She even inspired me to call around for quotes on how much lawn maintenance will cost! (Okay, so she kind of shoved the flyers in my face and was like, "CALL THEM.") One place never returned my call and another one needs 5-7 days to do an analysis. I have a big lot and the grass is all overgrown, so I don't know how much to expect. My mom and cousin say $200-300, but that seems really low to me. After the one-time fix, I'm not sure whether I should invest in a lawn mower and actually cut the grass myself (the chances of me actually doing this on a regular basis seems slim), or to hire someone to come biweekly or monthly to do it. Depending on cost, the latter is probably the more realistic option. Why can't my 15-year-old WoW friend live closer? I could make him do it for me. I would also like to paint the house, inside and out, but the lawn is more important atm.
Oh, and I forgot -- she also cooked dinner one night, making some of my favorite dishes. The plan is that she will cook one more time before she leaves, so that I will have lots of leftovers to tide me over for a bit.
If I am totally useless in the cleaning/tidying/cooking department, she only has herself to blame for not making me do any of it while I was growing up. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
I feel memey but none of the recent memes appeal to me. :/
1) Cleaned out my garage (Yes! You can actually park two cars in there now!)
2) Cleaned my kitchen (The Campbell's soup boiled over, Mom, and I didn't know what to do with the stove after that)
3) Rearranged/tidied my cupboards (So that's where all the lids to the Tupperware containers went!)
4) Tidied up my room (I'd almost forgotten what it's like to not trip over something in the middle of the night on my way to the bathroom)
5) Weeded the front garden area (Those were weeds?! And I thought they were kind of pretty...)
She even inspired me to call around for quotes on how much lawn maintenance will cost! (Okay, so she kind of shoved the flyers in my face and was like, "CALL THEM.") One place never returned my call and another one needs 5-7 days to do an analysis. I have a big lot and the grass is all overgrown, so I don't know how much to expect. My mom and cousin say $200-300, but that seems really low to me. After the one-time fix, I'm not sure whether I should invest in a lawn mower and actually cut the grass myself (the chances of me actually doing this on a regular basis seems slim), or to hire someone to come biweekly or monthly to do it. Depending on cost, the latter is probably the more realistic option. Why can't my 15-year-old WoW friend live closer? I could make him do it for me. I would also like to paint the house, inside and out, but the lawn is more important atm.
Oh, and I forgot -- she also cooked dinner one night, making some of my favorite dishes. The plan is that she will cook one more time before she leaves, so that I will have lots of leftovers to tide me over for a bit.
If I am totally useless in the cleaning/tidying/cooking department, she only has herself to blame for not making me do any of it while I was growing up. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
I feel memey but none of the recent memes appeal to me. :/
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Date: 2006-04-27 03:20 pm (UTC)The pally forums bitch that Pallys stop being useful when they hit endgame, but right now I'm having lots of fun being able to outsurvive almost anything. A few nights ago some mages I was partying with aggroed every single orc from Stonewatch Keep's atrium by accident and when everything cleared, I was the last one standing over a sea of corpses. Fun times :p
So, Gnomeregan next week?