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another child in the house, or can you believe the cheek of him?
Mr McMuffin just told me (without any shame whatsoever) that when he puts his cooking stained shirts into the laundry basket he expects me to look at them before I wash them and treat any stains. If the wash doesn't remove the marks (and pomegranate juice is particularly difficult) then he puts it straight back in the laundry basket, without telling me, again. I am more than a little pissed off with this admission, when did I become the mother of two children? Is it not enough to care for a baby all day, without being given pointless bloody washing to do? Mr McMuffin, you are cut off. If I recognise a shirt returning to the laundry basket then it will be put in the bin. So there!
By the way, my home made mocha was crap. I also had a crap phone call from my evil boss, basically trying to encourage me into a more child friendly job and out of a career and my hair is falling out in handfuls and clogging the hoover.
On a happier note, I can now fit back into my pre pregnancy size clothes, but they are rather yesterday, so I'll have to do more shopping. Damn shame, that.
mrs mcmuffin on 23 May 2006 @ 07:01 PM ✲ Permalink
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Ah the old "child-friendly" career conversation. I know several women at the consulting company I work at who have given up on promotion now that they have small children -- because they'd like to see said sprogs once in a while. Mind you, they get just as pissed when women managers push them to work even harder to make a political point. My friends are screwed either way, basically.
Posted by: Colin | 23 May 2006 19:54:33
We solved this problem at my house by keeping a stain stick right there next to where Leonard undresses. The idea is that he sees a spot, rubs it and then puts the clothing in the basket. As a process, it works most of the time.
Posted by: Karan | 24 May 2006 01:46:29
That's a helpful suggestion, Karan, but the evil MrMcMuffin already knows where the stain sticks are. I am hoping that this post will shame him into good behaviour!
Colin, I think you're right. Despite working in child care, it does seem to have escaped everyone's attention that out of all the managers at my level and above, only one woman has a child under 5 and she's recently had to go full time. The man with a young sone seems to go off on child related issues all the time without comment. I think I might take the child friendly job and plot my revenge on EB and career success when the Boy goes to school.
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | 25 May 2006 10:12:19
Well, if the child friendly job turns out to be not too taxing, that will leave plenty of time available for contemplating revenge.
Posted by: Colin | 25 May 2006 15:53:59
