Now I’m sounding anal. LOL!!! But truly, I hate to think while unloading the dishwasher, so my system allows me to unload it without having to “think” about the unloading process.

The husband is to be relied on for memorizing and choosing tools, yard implements, and other “outside stuff.” However, anything inside the house is the wife’s responsibility. Not because she needs more to remember, but because the man simply can’t handle the pressure of picking sheets, paint, pots/pans, or carpet. If you end up with undersize sheets, dreadful paint, or pans that stick, let that be a lesson to you.

Maybe next time you’ll remember.
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BTW, I’ve been reading the blog for a few weeks now, and I always enjoy seeing it in my reader! Keep up the great work.

Thanks for reminding me of my mother’s saying: stop looking for it and you will find it. So so true! Still happens to me almost everyday.

REPEAT: those sheets are mine. I will pay for them. Or perhaps we should have a bidding war and Alisa can donate the winner’s bid to her favorite charity–perhaps something to do with “Saving Bugs.”

You have my official papal dispensation to have a mixed butter/olive oil houshold. We all need to take a more ecumenical view these days. Besides it’s good Karm to follow the middle path, no extremes, not even with olive oil and butter. And besides, Julia would be so proud.

Kathy and MarthaandMe: Thanks for teaching me that the world isn’t so black and white. We really do live in an age where cats and dogs can live together in the same house and where olive oil and butter can coexist on the same plate! This is a happy revelation.

Janet: Are you sure you really want the sheets? Do you know what Bakugan is? It’s a Japanese cartoon for kids, similar to Pokemon. It has lots of things from an outer world that fight battles and people with that squiggly looking hair that the Japanese only seem to draw that way. They are yours if you want them.

Thanks to all who enjoyed this piece. When I wrote it, I didn’t think anyone would read it because it was so long. I’m glad you all proved me wrong.

I’m not commenting today to win the sheets, but I wanted to say–THANK YOU, again! The part about the “stringing along every big word I could find,” to make up a comment “just to teach him who was smarter than whom,” was both truthful & hilarious. See, I have this bad habit of ALWAYS having to have the last word–especially in an arguement/disagreement, and especially with my husband. But lately, (after a LONG chat last night) we have come up with some new strategies and tools–a lot of which I printed out for reading your blog here, but you know that already–when I said I’m going to print it out and hang it on my wall(s), I really mean it and I really do! Anyway, so my husband & I are working very hard on communicating better (your 11 Communication Tips came JUST in time the other day–thank you for that, too!), and TODAY, I too had to ZIP IT, and SILENTLY complain in my head–as to NOT have the last word. Anyway, that’s why that part made me laugh so hard! That and the cleaning under the bed part, I totally know what you mean, and I think we all do! Congrats on the cleaning! I’m doing a lot of that too lately! I love your Karma Project and I think it’s a great way to (at the very least) be concious of what we’re doing, how we’re acting and how we’re treating one another–and not just our spouses. So, thanks for sharing your project and your journey. Life is chaotic lately, but I still ready every entry, every day and right now, I’m in the phase of USING what you’ve written and the advice that you’ve shared! Thanks! Can’t wait to hear about next week’s Karma Project Progress–best of luck!

Many Blessings,
-Sarah Liz

P.S. I got the book from Nava Atlas, THANK YOU, I just finished reading it and am going to review it on Amazon tomorrow–it’s a great book and very comical! Thank you for picking me for the winning recipe contest! My husband, my mom and my friends are all very proud–and also, it’s given you more blog traffic because I’ve sent my friends here to check it out! I think that’s just good karma for us all, don’t you? Take care!

Solution for the twin sheets. 1. use them on your couch when you have more company than beds. 2. donate them to a charity (there’s a gal that collects new sheets for donations). 3. donate them directly to a homeless shelter. There are all sorts of solutions for the sheets. I just gave my unwanted sheets to one girlfriend and my daughter. My girlfriend has full-sized beds and my daughter has my old king-sized bed. Saved my daughter about $100 not having to buy new sheets. She was very pleased. And I cleaned out some closet space.

I must be bipolar (not in the mental way) – I use both butter and olive oil sometimes at the same time. (Must cook pasta in olive oil, then add butter before eating pasta.) And I have one dog and two cats. Besides, it’s not good to heat olive oil over a certain temp. So you were probably better off using butter on the potatoes.