Close to Home by John McPherson for February 15, 2021

When are you going to clean the garage.

You could always polish the kno………….let’s not go there ;-)

Are you supervising, Bleeb?

Next thing we know she will have a “reality” tv show, “hyper-housewives of Houston”

My girlfriend never did. She is strong against burnout. Still no cleaning. Before or after Covid-19. I work full-time and still find time to clean while she stays in the bedroom watching Netflix. Granted she does work part-time.

The hamster-flossing is what I want to see. Granted, they don’t have a lot of teeth, but still.

I don’t know if I’d call that burnout. Looks more like mania to me.

She seems fine to me….I’d be glad if she took care of my hamsters teeth lol

Sounds like some I’ve known that were wired on meth. Busybusybusy, but not making a lot of sense…

The walls are closing in again! Time for some outside activities!

Uh oh. Run dude. Pretty soon she’s going to start working on you. It’s either pushups or purple nail polish. …or both. GAD!

“I know, Honey… this has been tough on all of us, and we certainly appreciate everything you do around here, keeping this place running, keeping us organized, and to keep yourself sane, and cope with all this quarantine mess. And believe me, there is nothing I wouldn’t do to help you through this and to keep this as comfortable as possible, so it pains me to the core to have to tell you this, but…… we don’t have any Hamsters!”

And she did it all wearing her pearls…

I’ve binge watched all of Star Trek. ALL of it. All of Downton Abbey, cleaned and polished all the hardwood floors, except the Mrs’ studio. Torn down and rebuilt the bicycles, replacing all the cables, truing all the wheels that need it, and giving the frames a polish. Detailed the cars several times. Put up and taken down the Canada Day, Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Xmas and Valentine’s Day decorations. Groomed the dogs and cats on an ongoing basis, making meals in the Crock-pot and Insta-pot, growing tomatoes and peppers, and carrots, baking sourdough bread and carrot cake. And made sure to have time to just do nothing. Lots of nothing. And read comics here and elsewhere.

And I’ve just been reading the comics, watching TV and playing computer games……not to brag! We don’t have a basement or hamsters which might have inspired me to do more.

No starch in the underwear, please.

Sounds like too much caffeine to me. I find it makes the over-the-counter analgesics more effective (an open secret) but generates its own type of “burnout” a few hours later. Caffeine is one of those things that definitely works but not indefinitely. When the third espresso makes be feel sleepy, it’s my body’s way of telling me to lie down .

Ok Carol, time to switch to decaf

Floss And The Hamsters! Excellent band name!

Haha, reminds me of when I first got married (moved 60 miles away). I put our files together, cleaned and painted the house, organized the kitchen, and looked around one day and there was nothing else to do…so I drove to the city and got a job! Started the next business day.

How can I send my address to Carol?