Shieldmaiden, I can cook like a motherfucker. I be putting out charcuterie boards and wine while I’m making a rib roast for these hos out here.
Mr R wrote:
They make up for it in other ways 
Ah, the BBQ duties, yes essentially this is men’s work. HA! but I would not count that as cooking a meal. It appears that a large proportion of Australian men are very spoilt compared to other countries.
We’re a country that likes to think of itself as gender equal but the data tells a very different story. We don’t stack up particularly well compared to the rest of the world.
I know where Wendy is coming from and I am guilty? of the same. When in love to cook for your man is a privilege not a chore.
The movie Bridges of Madison County depicted this perfectly. Have you seen this one Wendy?
=D>
SM wrote
Such as? 
Yes, I saw it in the theaters, but I don’t remember much except my best friend’s brother, Victor Szelazek (he may have simplified his name cuz it’s a Polish mouthful) played the son in that movie.
How has everyone been?
I’ve been above average i think.
How about you?
Damn. That feeling when you wake up and you realize you are a nobody.
Inner alchemy : turning crap into gold. It’s the next step.
Tell me more
:
I am nothing but crap. A few years life expectancy in a system many billions of years old.
My society is crashing and burning. I have only a tiny amount of causal energy and influence.
vs
I am a rare one-of-a-kind being. I am special, and important.
In honor of this, i will try to perfect and transmute myself to an evolved state.
I will make a positive impression on my life and the lives to come after this.
[[ i hope this isn’t offensive terms. well, i tried. ]]
Yeah I guess you are right. I can’t seem to focus my mind. It’s all over the place. Uhh.
Changing a flat tyre, taking out the garbage, walking my dogs, changing the washer in that dripping tap… 
please come over and do my washing…
No loofah bath for you, MP.
Watching Season 4 of Black Mirror.
Happy New Years ILP! 
shit! already 2 days in. time is flying by!
Pandora wrote:
I was due for a sinus operation four days before Christmas day. Four days before I was due to check in my insurance company insisted I get a quote from the anaesthetist. My ENT surgeons said I would be contacted by the anaesthetist so far nothing. I called the hospital to be told they had scant info on me and that I had no private insurance. WTF. I have private insurance. Now I am getting really nervous. The hospital office said I had to call the surgeon’s office (see how messy this is getting) and find out what is going on. I did this only to be told by them they had supplied all my info to the hospital.
That’s it!
Cancel the surgery, everyone is too busy concentrating on their Christmas parties.
I told the surgeon’s office to cancel and reschedule for the end of January and book into another hospital, which I hope she did.
Then I get a call from his office saying he wants to see me. He wants to make sure I have confidence in him. WTF again. Am I supposed to pay $200 for a visit to tell him I have confidence in him.
I am really nervous now.
What kind of sinus surgery? I had a sinus surgery once. Had to sleep sitting up straight for over a week. It was a blast.
I have sinusitis are there other kinds, had a CT scan and they are totally blocked.
What kind of sinus did you have and was it successful?
I have been alright. On vacation in Mexico, going to see my father.
What have you been up to?