Friday 18th February

de1amo

İs there a football match tomorrow!!???--i hope the premiership is functioning as well because i enjoy that, the fa cup is only covered by turkish channels and i hate watching football when the commentators cant be understood--its bad enough with the dire usage of grammar you get from English ex professionals-we was robbed!!
Bad day today everything that could possibly go wrong went wrong! i am home now and the bottle of raki is luring me to partake. i am getting a right old soak because its three nights in a row -my wife's 28 day condition is stressing me plus today she has got a migraine and spitting fire!
Tomorrow i have 9 consecutive lessons with 30 minutes for lunch so i need to chill out and get to bed early tonight, we have been falling asleep on the sofas this week in front of the tv and i dont get quality sleep with the tv on and disturbing my dreams!

jackieglasgow

Afternoon All.

I cried my last wee tear for Diva today, and though I will think of her in the future, it will be with a smile when I remember how kind and sweet she was.

I am having a tough day here, the house is not getting any cleaner nd my husband is proving to be less than useful. I have things I really need him to do to help me, but I am afraid of asking lest it start a tiff, or a sulk as he really does not like being "nagged" - for nagged read asked to do something other than watch TV!!! Don't get me wrong, I adore him, but he is so laid back its not funny, and having been raised by a passive aggressive mother, he has learned to sulk with the best of them :mad:

Thanks for that, I feel better already! Can't decide what's for dinner - possible spag bol or chilli as I have quite a few bags of quorn mince in the freezer. Be back later.

Jac xxx

sistercas

jackieglasgow wrote: »

Afternoon All.

my husband is proving to be less than useful. I have things I really need him to do to help me, but I am afraid of asking lest it start a tiff, or a sulk as he really does not like being "nagged" - for nagged read asked to do something other than watch TV!!!
Jac xxx

you could be talking about my DH there :eek:

candygirl

JACKIEG women have been silenced for centuries by being called "nags", think of the old fashioned scold's bridle:mad::mad::mad:Nag away hun, you need help, ask for it:o;)Men do!!!:mad:
RANT OVER:o

camelot1001

Afternoon All

RIP Diva

Been a long day, woke up at 5 and got up at 5.30. Stripped my bed and turned the mattress, cleaned the hen house, showered and went to work. Had a migraine headache by half 10! Still feel better now but would like to sleep. Going to have a very chilled Friday night in front of the fire/telly and do nothing!

Redruby - hope your Mum gets a rest and your Dad is ok.
Taplady - good news about your test results.

Hugs to those not feeling so good today. Take care all. XX

anguk

candygirl wrote: »

JACKIEG women have been silenced for centuries by being called "nags", think of the old fashioned scold's bridle:mad::mad::mad:Nag away hun, you need help, ask for it:o;)Men do!!!:mad:
RANT OVER:o

I agree! Women are accused of being nags because they always have to ask more than once for something to be done, if men just did as we asked the first time we asked then we wouldn't have to nag! :mad:

Men aren't nags because whenever they ask we do normally do it!

ubamother

I agree with anguk and candygirl. This is my workaround to give a bit of visibility to the 'they say they're going to do it - we just do it' I sit down with OH every now and again and say, we've got load to do this weekend - will you give me a hand making a list. This turns jobs into a list with our names next to it. This is left in a very visible place, and I cross off the things I've done as they're done. He sees the list, competitive blokey nature kicks in (and the desire to remove any food for sarcastic micky-taking on my part) and cracks on - hoorah. I like to think of it less as manipulative, more of assertive people management! Perhaps men respond well to star-charts?

Rowan9

Thinking of Diva's family and friends today. Will certainly miss her purple posts and kind words.
JackieG - just ask him! Give him a choice of 2 jobs, that's what i do with my DH sometimes. Mind you, he does hate it as it makes me out to be organising him (which I am;)).
Good to see you Halight - thought you were missing!
Taplady - really pleased for you re result!
Pasta and some kind of sauce that doesn't involve too much effort but which will contain fresh(ish) ingreds for tea.
Take care all

LameWolf

*Sticks head tentatively round door*
Please can I come back?:o

Not been in a terribly good place health-wise, so had to step back a bit, and ironically, I've been flat on my back on the sofa today, but feel a bit more able to post on the Daily. I won't promise to post every day, but will try and be a bit more sociable than of late.

Regarding getting men to help - I have to have Mr LW's assistance with a lot of things, I generally say, something like "Right, we need to do A, B and C, which shall we tackle first?" and we do the tasks together as much as possible.

Probably helps that Mr LW was already house-trained, as he'd lived alone for many years before I met him.;)

donny-gal

JG I know a easy way to bring them out of their "sulks"
DG