I just want to get remarried...

[cheyennemama]

so I can have someone else operate the snowthrower. and shovel off the steps and cut the grass and all that stuff! That's basically the only reason!

It's so much snow and sleet, the snowthrower is not digging down enough. UGH

[ombra*luna]

I will not be getting remarried, but I know what you mean about that! My x loves playing in the snow, and when he finished doing my driveway and scraping snow off my roof with the special "snow rake" he would go do our neighbors' snow for fun.

I do have a teenage son who is supposed to shovel, but of course he left off shoveling to play video games as soon as I went to work yesterday and then shoveled for a while when I came home only to come in for a "20-minute" break that lasted like 20 hours. And I am not doing it, I'm in too much pain right now (tendonitis). I'm forcing him out there again right now. There's a ton of it! Yuck.

[MsChatsAlot]

I like shovelling. Well...most of the time.

Good luck with that. Perhaps you could place an ad....

"Wanted...a man to shovel snow. Perhaps a few other 'fringe benefits' but otherwise...keep to yourself."

Let me know how that works!

[Haydee]

Originally Posted by MsChatsAlot

Good luck with that. Perhaps you could place an ad....

"Wanted...a man to shovel snow. Perhaps a few other 'fringe benefits' but otherwise...keep to yourself."

That's perfect!!!

[Purplehaze]

I did not enjoy shoveling....

this morning I had to shovel the big hump made by the snow plow.... it is dense like cement and frozen solid so it was more like chipping ice then shoveling, and slippery too! Reminded me all over again why I am selling this place (150 foot driveway....) and getting a place with a driveway that is maybe 15 feet deep! Yeah!

The snow blower always is so loud- The kids dad took the muffler off it years ago. I dunno why- he just does crap like that. I truly think the man likes to be loud... So not having to hear that awful noise shatter the silence on a dark winter morning will be nice.

[MissLotus]

I was just thinking that this morning as I shoveled in the cold, icy wind!

[Blue Dragonfly]

Hey, I want to get remarried so I am not the only person who can get up in the night. But by the time I find a guy who can/will, it will take a year or so for me to trust him enough to have him stay over, and then another year or so until I feel comfortable with him parenting my children in the night, by which time they'll be 3 and 4 and night time wake ups won't be such an issue any more.

Dammit.

I'm "training" my son to shovel snow.

[JustVanessa]

: Bf shovels snow AND takes the garbage out.
Then he goes home and does it at his house.

BTW, I never ask him to do these things, he offers or just does them to be sweet.

[green]

Ha!
As I was shoveling in the bitter cold - I kept thinking to myself "I must be indestructable" - which made me begin to chuckle to myself. I swear - there is nothing a woman cannot do!!! Not that I *want* to do the shoveling in the bitter cold - but I CAN.

[cheyennemama]

Originally Posted by green

Ha!
As I was shoveling in the bitter cold - I kept thinking to myself "I must be indestructable" -

I know! I can do EVERYTHING! Mow, shovel, snowthrower, bag leaves, blow leaves, take care of the kids, clean the house, etc, etc.

[MissLotus]

Ahh yes....that is the flip side. Since I do my own shoveling anyway, as well as everything else, then why in the world would I ever NEED a man? Not for nothin'.

[woo27ks]

I think about getting remarried when...

I have a mouse in the mousetrap.

My sewer backs up in the laundry room.
I have to take my car in to be serviced.


When it snows, my retired neighbor comes over and clears my driveway. I bake him brownies in return.

[fairywing8]

oooh careful what you put out there cuz that may be all you get one day! LOL!

I like to add some personal traits to my lawn mower.....

[edamommy]

ummmm... i am married... and still do all that crap myself! What you need is to become a princess and find a prince because the average man just doesn't cut it!

[Jane]

Around here, there's a "rent a husband" service, which is not the sleezy escort service I thought it was...it's a handyman service. Can you imagine telling your mom that you work as a "rent a husband"?

[pranamama]

I'd love a fire"able" husband

free divorce

YAY

[chefpaige1]

It took me a long while to realize that you can hire someone to do the "man" tasks. It's actually way cheaper than actually having a husband!!

[Haydee]

Originally Posted by Apricot

Around here, there's a "rent a husband" service, which is not the sleezy escort service I thought it was...it's a handyman service. Can you imagine telling your mom that you work as a "rent a husband"?

Ohhh, that's awesome!! I want one!

[ombra*luna]

Originally Posted by chefpaige1

It took me a long while to realize that you can hire someone to do the "man" tasks. It's actually way cheaper than actually having a husband!!

Good point! The guys like that are kinda scarce around here though, they are all booked up, don't return calls, etc. - why even advertise your services if you haven't even got time to make a phone call to say you're too busy!

A good portion of my snow is still in place, despite my teenage son putting in a lot of work. : I would love to get out there and show him how it's done but now it's frozen solid as a rock, and my arm is worse. (Btw, I have been going to doctors, but they haven't fixed it yet. Just added that, b/c my kids think I should "just go to a doctor" and it will miraculously be fine, as if I hadn't thought of that already.)

[MaWhit]

Just hire a neighborhood teen or handyperson. It's much less hassle.