There once was a girl who got married to a handsome strong man and enjoyed life with him very much. There were a lot of differences between her family and his family, but they got along just fine and started a happy life together. It was discovered that the younger brother of the husband was a nice looking young man. It was also discovered that the younger sister of the girl was a pretty young lady. They younger brother and the younger sister went to school together, and showed no signs of being attracted to one another. In fact the younger sister showed complete disinterest most of the time. They younger brother and the younger sister did become good friends and even did things together outside of their classes.

One day the younger brother and sister came over to their married older siblings house together without invitation of both. The older sister noticed a little flirting of the younger siblings. Secretely she would LOVE it if the younger siblings "hooked up". What to do?

Question

Do you make the husband finish the dishes, the last thing to do after and hour and half of cleaning? Or do you let him sit and watch T.V. and allow him the option to do them tomorrow? (Keep in mind the option for tomorrow is always his favorite request...let me rephrase...his favorite demand.)

Portfolio

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TAGGED (I love being tagged)

I got tagged by my old friend Chelsea Terry and meant to do it a few days ago because I would have so many good things to put down, but I don't know if they will still apply today, so I will have to just wing it.

8 Things

Tagged by ...

8 T.V. shows I watch:

1. House
2. Seinfeld (still funny)
3. Ace of Cakes
4. Law & Order SVU...honestly I'm not sure I like it anymore
5. Starter Wife
6. American Idol, when its on
7. Movies!...I guess thats not a show, but I watch them when they are on T.V.
8. Extreme Home Makeover


8 Things that happened yesterday:

1. I went to bed at 9:30 and felt great waking up this morning
2. Made 0 dinner, meaning I had cereal and Andrew had popcorn (I am making up for it today)
3. Worked at my job for 9+ hours
4. Someone doorbell ditched us with our door open and left us a carved pumpkin with candy :) (confession, I stole that from sunday)
5. I had a really boring day yesterday apparently
6. I drove all the way to Wellsville for work and wished that we lived in Petersboro
7. Kissed my hubby on the mouth
8. Waited
...lets just say I live for the weekends

8 Favorite places to eat:

1. Iggys
2. Takara Sushi
3. PF Changs (Great Wall of Chocolate!)
4. Village Inn
5. Cafe Rio
6. Cafe Sabor
7. Hamiltons
8. and...Tacanos

8 Things I'm looking forward to:

1. Christmas
2. Time change
3. Florida trip in January
4. Thanksgiving when the In-laws are coming
5. The Twilight Movie I had to leave this on from Chelsea's
6. Visiting my family...I haven't been home forever!
7. Kenny and Jamile moving back to Utah
8. Finally getting a positive pregnancy test. (maybe someday)


8 Things on my wish list:

1. I wish we had a down payment for a house
2. I wish I had new brown boots that are my size (can I get a 5 1/2 SOMEWHERE)
3. I wish that I had ease and happiness that some of the old people in my ward
4. I wish I could buy this house and when I do I wish I could rip down the wallpaper
5. I wish that I had a new windshield for my car. Stupid rock chip.
6. I wish my boobs were the same size
7. I wish that I could forget some of my embarrassing moments
8. I wish that I would get my raise already :)

Now I tag:

1. EVERYBODY WHO READS THIS IS TAGGED!!!!

Shows

I pretty much love the new show HOUSE. Have any of you seen it? I recommend it, makes me wish I had decided to become a doctor. It isn't as dramatic and stressful as some of the other "medicine" shows and it isn't as stupid (scrubs) as others. It is all about matching symptoms with diseases and treatments etc. I hope it doesn't get old as they do the same thing over and over, but I love how they figure out clues to what is wrong and try to match the best treatments.

I also have decided that I really like ACE of Cakes. Have any of you seen that one? It is on the food network and they make the coolest custom cakes. It is on in the evenings on the food network for those of you that are into cakes.

I also watched the premier of Starter Wife and I liked it okay, I didn't love that they have another gay guy as her best bud...(I know I should be more accepting right...well...I'm not really).

Animal Cruelty

The cat was going particularly crazy tonight as she was trying to catch a fly and was darting all over the place. She jumped up into the window and Andrew took advantage of her exploring in between the two panes of glass. I didn't come up with the idea, but I admit I was quick to make sure he got the camera before we let her out.

I am a genius

I was having a really straining day at work on Monday and I came home pretty irritable. As usual Andrew tried to cheer me up by asking me what I wanted him to make for dinner and smiling a lot etc. It didn't really work until he said that he was going to wash all of the dishes as he pointed to our mounding sink. "yeah, that's right, all these dishes" he said. I was pretty impressed that he made the offer (very unusual for him to offer to do dishes) and it did lighten my mood a little. After dinner I was almost cured of my bad mood and Andrew could tell. He told me there was a deal involved with him doing the dishes and that was that I had to clear the dish drainer. I had no problem with that. Then he further shortened his task by saying that he was only going to do them until the drainer was full. What? Now I was feeling like his statement for doing the dishes was a bit of a joke...The drainer was only big enough to fit maybe a third or a fourth of the dishes there. It wouldn't have even dented the counter top that had dishes spread 3 feet ramming into the microwave on the far wall (I am exaggerating just a little...but only a little.) I would have further protested, but I was ahead of him. I finished putting away the dishes in the drainer and started washing the counters until he had about 5 plates stacked in the drainer. I pulled out a towel and started drying the plates and putting them away :) You all see where I am going with this. So did Andrew :) He whined just a little and asked what I was doing. He knew what I was doing. He just laughed at me the next few plates I dried and put away, knowing that the drainer was never going to get full, and he was going to have to do all the dishes. I enjoyed the moment of triumph. He pouted a little after washing every dish and I can't blame him, but the kitchen looked great.

I feel a need to explain my tomatoes a little. We picked them green because I was afraid of a frost with some bad weather coming up, AND we picked them early in the beginning so our tomatoes wouldn't have so many on every plant to focus on. Either way the window ripened tomatoes tasted just as good to me and picking them green gave me a chance to figure out what to do with some of them before they went bad. FYI, you can freeze tomatoes, but they are COMPLETE MUSH when you thaw them...so they would only be good for sauces or soups at that point. Also, you can jam them and jar them and give many many many away. I pulled 2 quarts of tomatoe juice from them when I made my jam. And for those that were wondering, yes they are tomatoes in that picture not APPLES...even though I wish some of them were.

Ha ha ha ha

Weekend

Andrew and I had a really nice conference weekend. It was nice to hear and be uplifted. I was thinking they would talk more about the financial situation that we are in, and they mentioned it briefly, but it occurred to me that, we are a world-wide church more than ever and the American situation is not the majority. That is okay though, I believe we have already been told what we need to do, and the time for preparing is now over. Did anyone watch the special on Panama between sessions? I thought that was pretty cool too...anyone want to move to Panama with me? Beautiful!

Andrew and I took advantage of the extra time we had to make pumpkin seeds and carve a little and I made some Tomato Jam that turned out pretty good actually. OH My WORD though! Ground Cloves...$8 freakin dollars for the little tiny bottle...I about died...I don't know if I saved any money by making my own jam after that.