h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I love to cook... PC enjoys it as well and has surprised me more than once with a nice dinner..

My first missus could do a Newfie "cooked dinner" for 30, but nothing else. Nor could she launder, clean house, ... hell, she couldn't even fashion and place a cloth diaper. (Couldn't afford the one kind of disposables available then). So I learned to be the Jack-of-all-domestic-stuff as well. I've rather surprised Milady with some of my abilities.

PC does most of the cleaning.. he's a neat freak so I let him do it as he likes.. but I will help him.. plus I do the cooking and laundry..

Heh heh heh, my clothing is pretty much all "earth-tones", so I justifiably think ALL laundry can go in at once. Hence the firm understanding that SHE will do the laundry.

I cook about 60% of the meals, do the windows and vaccuuming, and of course any maintenance and construction. She predominantly does the cleansing and dusting of the place. I think it's mostly a balanced arrangement.

I, of course, DO know better than to ever name anything as "men's work" and that obvious alternative.

yeah.. that could get you hurt.

She was an excellent and very adept with the sharp implements of the kitchen trades. Hence I have a world of respect for her.

And understandably so!

So how's about you? Gainfully employed?

right now I'm entertaining my options.. when my last contract was up I decided to take some time to look at other things so that's what I'm doing..

Mmmmm, that would indeed be a nice option. I wish you a patient and satisfactory success.

Very young, I joined our uniformed lot due to lack of employment options. For 21 years, I serviced and repaired radio, computer and data processing stuff for "Her Majesty's Canadian Armed Forces", anywhere they had a need for my skills and talents. And a lot of other electronic stuff and "duties" that don't exist outside of that world. Around the 16th or 17th year though, careerism and "business model" methods arrived and changed the whole environment. So I hung around long enough for a small pension, and took the first living-wage offer. Which just happened to be doing exactly the same stuff, but as a civilian paid by a contracted company. That's done me nicely this past 8 years ...

What I do is primarily marketing... most recently with a very large bank in the US.. my charming man is, as I mentioned, an uber..

Ah, so your primary tools-of-the-trade are a creative quantity of grey-cells. Very nice. I know the general limitations of meself there, though I do surprise myself on occassion.

Milady never intended to be a , but that was the only immediately available trade when she took up the uniform. She made use of some of my severance monies to get updated skills in what she preferred, ... office administration and management. And now over 5 years at the head office of the largest insurance and investment firm this little 'city' has.

lovely...

a major culinary institute just moved here and PC and I have been talking about taking some of the weekend classes they offer to the general public.. the culinary scene here isn't spectacular but once the s start graduating I'm sure it will improve tremendously.

Oh, that sounds fun. It's always great to find something that you both enjoy and yet is not the speciality of either. Our town simply isn't large enough for much of that sort of thing unfortunately. But on occassion, our mutual enjoyment of volunteering with local service clubs brings some very pleasant experiences.

Volunteering together is fun... I got PC to join me volunteering for an annual culinary event the city throws (made far better since it was the first year Johnson & Wales - the aforementioned school - was participating) and we had a wonderful time. It was exhausting work but lots of money was raised for charity.

Most of the places the "crown" sent me to were very small communities. Say, 750 or less people. There will always be the same 20 or 30 that get in to the community stuff, and that was us. Teen-town, kid's stuff, ... One place, Milady was Deputy-Mayor and I was a Ward rep, ... She created a pre-school facility and I chaired the committee (and then was President) of a family resource centre. We have pretty much always done things that are youth or family oriented. As you say, it's a bucket-load of work at times, horribly exhausting, but in the end, someone benefits well. And that is a nice little warmy-feeling.

So true. There is a satisfaction to that kind of exhaustion that you just don't get elsewhere.

Mind you, it did come with a small price. As one or both of us bore "titles" at any given time, community functions like a New Year's Dance, or an Oktoberfest, ... the Commanding Officer liked to be seated with the "good people". Then come Monday, as a lowly Corporal, I'd get it from the co-workers ...

Simple jealousy, but a bit annoying at times.

We don't have to worry about that... just making sure our company's parties don't fall on the same date or anything..

Amazingly, over the years, that hasn't proven to be a problem once for us. Though some weeks leading up to Christmas DO get rather congested with 'social' stuff. And I ain't as young as I once was.