I have a confession to make

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[leechbabe]

I've not washed any dishes since Thursday night.

Thursday night the Kinder fundraising subcommittee met at my place and the house was immaculate.  Toilet, kitchen, bathroom, lounge room all looked like a display home it was so freaking clean.  Locked my bedroom door so they couldn't see the massive mountain of stuff I hid in there

Soooo Friday we were out all day, breakfast and an interview with a guy writing a book about aspergers at McDonalds.  Lunch at Grandads, dinner at home but too tired to clean up after and there was only a couple of plates anyway.

That is how it starts you know, not enough dishes to justify wasting a sink full of water on - or so my water saving self tells my lazy arsed self.

Then Saturday up at the butt crack of dawn and off to calisthenics.  The girls ate vegemite sandwiches in the car for breakfast and I drank lots of coffee.  We got home and I decided to take the day off from housework - well apart from cleaning pee and or blob slime (poo) off the walls, chairs, carpets whatever every 30-40 minutes.

So here it is Sunday.  We had a couple of bowls of cereal for breakfast, then off to a birthday party for the rest of the day and now somehow my kitchen looks and smells .. not so good really.

Suppose I shouldn't be sitting here constantly hitting refresh on my browser in the hope of reading something new, or getting a comment in my blog or 'you've got mail', really I should go attend to those dishes.

Seen anything good on YouTube lately?

[Lani]

Lol.  I was just getting a handle on the dishes and had a nice clear bench when I found out my sister hadn't organised a a birthday cake for her boyfriend, so there I was, baking a chocolate cake at 8pm, with a 1 year old who should have been in bed screeching at me.  I made an awful mess.  And there was no clear bench space.

Sorry, that's it from me.  No YouTube.  Go do the dishes.  And then come and finish what's left of mine.  Pots and pans and mixing bowls.  All the best bits saved just for you.

[leechbabe]

  And then come and finish what's left of mine.  Pots and pans and mixing bowls.  All the best bits saved just for you.

Pots and pans and mixing bowls I can deal with, it is all those fiddly little things like cutlery that I loath.

I'd rather scrub a burnt pot than wash cutlery.

[Lani]

Oh, we really should share the workload around, then.  I like cutlery.  I'll even polish it for you.  Years in hospo and I'm an expert at that.

[kathiemt]

I hate mess in the kitchen. I have a diswasher and everything gets put into there and then it runs every night when we're in bed - that way everything is clean in the morning.

I am always wiping down the cupboard tops and benches - I'm wondering if getting older makes you pedantic?  But it seems no-one else in the family really cares (even hubby who is older than me) so perhaps it's just me.

[leechbabe]

We have a dishwasher - me.  Funnily enough I to seem to wash dishes after everyone else has gone to bed

Is a deal lani - I'd do anything to avoid washing cutlery.

Done most of the dishes now.  Accidentally made myself a full caf. coffee instead of a decafe so I'm going to be buzzing for a bit longer.

Fed my Straight Dope addiction yesterday with Scylla's "I Waterboarded" thread and dug into the Dope's archives for Scylla's hysterical The Horror of Blimps.

So I'm not really sure where to take myself off to today.

I could watch some DVDs that are in my 'will watch them someday' pile - there is Supernatural Seasons 1 and 2, or Underworld or Underworld Revolution.  But I'm still recovering from the Dr Who Stone Angel induced nightmares and know it would be best NOT to watch scary movies or tv shows just before bed.  Why this never happened with Buffy or Angel I do not know.  I blame Dr Who and those evil stone angels. 

Maybe I should go dry the dishes in the dish drainer and wash some more.  Perhaps even make up the lunches for tomorrow.  If I was feeling really enthusiastic I could even sweep the kitchen floor.  'tis the life I'm telling you, really it is

[Kelley]

Mr Nobody keeps putting cereal encrusted bowls in my sink.  Not in the dishwasher.  And always in the evening.  That crusted soak and scrub type of thing that surely has been marinating for days......

Oh how I despise doing dishes.

Once MPS and I were having a feud over who would do the dishes (BC - before children) and we went a week before the smell near killed me and I ended up doing them.

[Gemisht]

Once MPS and I were having a feud over who would do the dishes (BC - before children) and we went a week before the smell near killed me and I ended up doing them.

ROFL, thats the sort of thing that we would have done too. Now its all up to me to do it because I am the only one that it seems to bother enough to actually do it. And like leechbabe, usually after everyone else is in bed.

[kathiemt]

I could watch some DVDs that are in my 'will watch them someday' pile - there is Supernatural Seasons 1 and 2, or Underworld or Underworld Revolution.  But I'm still recovering from the Dr Who Stone Angel induced nightmares and know it would be best NOT to watch scary movies or tv shows just before bed.  Why this never happened with Buffy or Angel I do not know.  I blame Dr Who and those evil stone angels. 

DON'T BLINK!!!  Was that being cruel?  Sorry, couldn't resist.

[leechbabe]

Hubby and I have this deal, I will do the majority of the housework because I'm a stay at home mum.

He goes to work 12 hours a day (plus 2-3 hours travel time), his jobs at home are
1. to worship the ground I walk on.
2. to spend quality time with his daughters.
3. to do the dishes or put the rubbish in the bin.

Item 1 and 2 he completes very well, I would go so far as to say I'm very satisfied with his attentions in regard to item 1.  :rkiss:

However number 3 is often not completed for days.

If he has been very attentive to item 1 then I often forgive him for skipping item 3.

Cereal bowls in the sink are evil.  I've still got wheat bix stuck on my wall from when we moved in almost 2 years ago.  I just can not get it off without damaging the paint.

kathiemt, I may just have to go drink some more full strength coffee after that! Evil, Evil torture

[Lani]

...best NOT to watch scary movies or tv shows just before bed.  Why this never happened with Buffy or Angel I do not know.

Hard to get too freaked out when the tension is leavened with comments like, "That probably would've sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas."

I really want those yummy sushi pajamas.  I think I lost the link to wear you can buy them though. 

[Sakuralulu]

My partner has two jobs- Garbage and dishes....I have to remind him to do both but he does them, most of the time. Except when I went back to Australia and came back after 2 and a half weeks and there was bags of garbage on the veranda, rubbish all over the kitchen and what looked to be a weeks worth of dishes in the sink.Not tomention he had just taken his clothe off at night and left them on the floor in the living room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom or whever he happened to be I guess. I spat the dummy....

We always clean the apartment together on Sundays....we just did it....Its almost 11pm. Usually dishes from Friday stay in the sink until we clean the apartment on Sunday....I will never be a domestic goddess....

My confession is that while I love to cook, if the boyfriend didn`t do the dishes, then I would be happy to eat out everyday because I hate nothing more than doing the dishes!

[Lightening]

Now I feel guilty.  I have 2 dishwashers!!!!  One that is electronic and the other one I'm married to.  And we're starting to train 3 more!!!

I very rarely DO dishes.  How spoilt am I??????

[leechbabe]

  And we're starting to train 3 more!!!

I get Annie to help me dry the dishes when I do them during the day.  But sometimes it is just easier to do them myself. 

Is good bonding time doing housework together.  Speaking of which, the laundry mountain appears to have grown again. Time to send  the girls outside with pegs to hang up the wet washing - for some reason they love doing it, strange kids.

[Lani]

Now I feel guilty.  I have 2 dishwashers!!!!  One that is electronic and the other one I'm married to.  And we're starting to train 3 more!!!

It was always my sister's and my job to do the dishes but we fought so much that we got "separated".  One of us would go in and wash and then the other would go in and dry. I used to get out of doing the pots and pans because they were "too heavy".  I was really little (my parents literally threw a party when I reach 4 feet) but the day I hit her over the head with the cast iron frying pan ended that concession. 

[Hilary]

Once MPS and I were having a feud over who would do the dishes (BC - before children) and we went a week before the smell near killed me and I ended up doing them.

I'm not trying to suggest everyone should get a divorce, but I this was seriously one of the main advantages I noticed when I did. That and having a child-free house for half the week. (I love my children. Really. I do.)

[supersarah]

Mr Nobody keeps putting cereal encrusted bowls in my sink.  Not in the dishwasher.  And always in the evening.  That crusted soak and scrub type of thing that surely has been marinating for days......

Yes, this is a regular argument around our house!

Hubby and I have this deal, I will do the majority of the housework because I'm a stay at home mum.

Yup, same deal around here. He works fulltime to bring home the bacon, I work fulltime to cook it, clean up after and make sure the kiddiwink eats it!

My confession is that just after Christmas and New Year we had a funny smell in the kitchen. It was only around one corner and smelt like something was dying. Most unpleasant and after a busy weekend it started to drive me mad. We were convinced our possum had upped and died in the roof and it was only when I came to make coffee on the Monday morning that I discovered the source of the smell. Maggots breeding in the sordid left over scum of milk in the metal milk jug that was sitting under the coffee machine where it had been left three or four days before.

I could actually have DIED I was so mortified. Right then and there I had to stop everything I was doing and scrub the kitchen from top to bottom with BAM. It took me a few days to get my appetite for coffee back though!

[Kelley]

Once MPS and I were having a feud over who would do the dishes (BC - before children) and we went a week before the smell near killed me and I ended up doing them.

I'm not trying to suggest everyone should get a divorce, but I this was seriously one of the main advantages I noticed when I did. That and having a child-free house for half the week. (I love my children. Really. I do.)

right now I would like to divorce my children.......

[guera]

Mr Nobody keeps putting cereal encrusted bowls in my sink.  Not in the dishwasher.  And always in the evening.  That crusted soak and scrub type of thing that surely has been marinating for days......

Yes, this is a regular argument around our house!

Same here, although since my husband has a much lower mess threshold than me he always seems to cave first. Bwaahaaa! When I was a bit more conscientious about doing the dishes (before kids), the only thing that I asked him to rinse (not wash, just rinse) was the cereal bowl.

My confession is that just after Christmas and New Year we had a funny smell in the kitchen. It was only around one corner and smelt like something was dying. Most unpleasant and after a busy weekend it started to drive me mad. We were convinced our possum had upped and died in the roof and it was only when I came to make coffee on the Monday morning that I discovered the source of the smell. Maggots breeding in the sordid left over scum of milk in the metal milk jug that was sitting under the coffee machine where it had been left three or four days before.

I could actually have DIED I was so mortified. Right then and there I had to stop everything I was doing and scrub the kitchen from top to bottom with BAM. It took me a few days to get my appetite for coffee back though!

I had the same problem just after our first child was born - a few weeks after coming home from the hospital there was a really rancid smell in the kitchen. I could have sworn something had died a horrible death in there but couldn't find it. A few days later I discovered a raw chicken breast in a ziplock bag sitting on the top of the fridge where I had obviously put it in my sleep-deprived new baby fuzzy head stage and then forgotten about it for about a week. 

If there was a vomit smilie I would put it in here.

Actually, its probably best there is no vomit smilie...

[Meg]

This was nearly 20 years ago - funny how the memory gets stirred. We had a grill (as you do) in the oven, but rarely used it. I noticed a smell & couldn't isolated it. Turns out a sausage had fallen off the grill plate at the back of the oven (a few weeks prior). At least it was cooked!

Speaking of old cooked food, a guy who ran a gym I went to kept a hamburger from an "unnamed" fast food establishment on his desk for 3 years (as the story goes). No mould, no smell. Just the bun was a bit crumbly. Kinda makes you wonder about all the preservatives eh? 

[Anonymum]

You should hear the story about a piece of pizza from a VERY well known chain that sat in a drawer for 9 months, unwrapped! Not one bit of mould, not even crunchy! The scariest thing was it looked like it came straight from the oven.
*shudder*
At least your insides will be well preserved if you eat there regularly I guess!

[Lightening]

Our dishwasher broke!!!!!!      I need to borrow this smiley for a bit.

[Gemisht]

I hope that its the electronic one and not your DH 

Is it major, can it be fixed???? It can't be that old is it.................

[Anonymum]

Our dishwasher broke!!!!!!      I need to borrow this smiley for a bit.

I never needed a dishwasher..I had all girls!
 

[Lightening]

No, it's not old.     We bought it new to go into this house which is.... I have no idea how many years old now????  Must be almost 3 I think?  It's just the switch but when you live in the middle of nowhere they're not easy to get hold of.

Anonymum - My DH washes most of the dishes here (that don't go in the dishwasher) so I think washing dishes is a BOYS job!!!!