Comments on I have a date! She's a redhead.

Go to Mom vs. Wife vs. Sanity - Add a comment - Go to I have a date! She's a redhead.

Why do I doubt you go nuts cleaning for your friends? :)

BTW- have you checked out your madlib? I am a gay designer in your madlib... oh! also... this is turning into a letter.. but, I recently read somewhere that you are 45. I thought you'd find it amusing that I thought you were at most 28. hehe.

posted by IsSanityNear on November 16, 2004 at 2:08 PM | link to this | reply

No judgement intended

We all do it, nothing wrong with it.

posted by jollyjeff on November 16, 2004 at 2:01 PM | link to this | reply

ROFLMAO - you are so stooopid (in a good way) you crack me up.

posted by Hollee on November 15, 2004 at 8:12 PM | link to this | reply

Hollee-

I think that makes us the state fish of Hawaii - the humuhumunukunukuapua'a. Yeah. She said fish. hehe

posted by IsSanityNear on November 15, 2004 at 8:09 PM | link to this | reply

You see ISN - you are me - Homononomumnynns

posted by Hollee on November 15, 2004 at 8:08 PM | link to this | reply

Merryanne

My little Taylor likes to help me clean by putting all the toys on the floor. To him, that is neat, he can see all of them at once! hehe

posted by IsSanityNear on November 15, 2004 at 8:07 PM | link to this | reply

Hollee

I think that's why I do it too- I think I would feel a bit offended if someone I was visiting didn't bother to toss out the old pizza boxes in honor of my visit. Which reminds me....

posted by IsSanityNear on November 15, 2004 at 8:06 PM | link to this | reply

LOL Alf

Good idea... I'll try that... riiiight.... :) Thanks for reading

posted by IsSanityNear on November 15, 2004 at 8:05 PM | link to this | reply

canine277

I agree- BTW, she has three dogs. Thought of you :)

posted by IsSanityNear on November 15, 2004 at 8:04 PM | link to this | reply

suomynona

Since you can't kill that other person, can you have her make some cookies for me? :)

posted by IsSanityNear on November 15, 2004 at 8:04 PM | link to this | reply

ISN - again, I am much like you - I wold put "my best foot forward" as

it were--that's how I was raised--there is nothing wrong with it - some see it as common courtesy.

posted by Hollee on November 15, 2004 at 6:07 PM | link to this | reply

ISN...

You don't really want to be friends with a nitt picky person anyway. I say leave the house a big mess and test her mettle. If she likes you anyway then you're onto something.

posted by A_Norseman on November 15, 2004 at 4:16 PM | link to this | reply

ISN

If she likes you she won't care what your house looks like, if she doesn't there is no amount of cleaning that will satisfy her.

posted by canine277 on November 15, 2004 at 4:15 PM | link to this | reply

I want the house to be clean when friends

esp. new friends come over, but it is almost never tidy. After all the wee baby has a nasty habit of following me around the house as I clean up pulling back down everything that I just put away. It's really just exercise at that point... LOL!

posted by MerryAnne on November 15, 2004 at 4:10 PM | link to this | reply

IsSanityNear

I know exactly where you're coming from....I do the exact same thing myself!! I know in my head that my friends are coming to see ME and not my house, I also know in my head that if my friends saw the way my house is usually on a daily basis and they disliked me because of it...then they are no friends of mine because they are shallow and I hate shallowness, I have even been TOLD over and over....we don't care about where you live or what you do...it's you we like and want to visit. But does this stop the emergence of that other personality.....the super-efficient, exquisitely neat, not a hair out of place, not a toy in sight, owner of a display home answering the door with a platter of freshly made goodies in one hand and a freshly percolated coffee pot in the other? NO!!...I have tried to kill that other person, but to no avail...she is immortal and I'm afraid I have to live with her and all the little voices in my head telling me "Gosh you're sooo shallow!!"

posted by suomynona on November 15, 2004 at 4:05 PM | link to this | reply

Jeff-

That was more judegmental than I deserved.... I think.... but anyway, I think people stay friends because of the real stuff, the rest is just to make sure I don't put forth a messy house....

posted by IsSanityNear on November 15, 2004 at 2:09 PM | link to this | reply

loan lady -

I know, I know.... it'll be a wreck before the kids leave:)

posted by IsSanityNear on November 15, 2004 at 2:08 PM | link to this | reply

It always amazes me

what people will go through to have others think well of them.

posted by jollyjeff on November 15, 2004 at 1:55 PM | link to this | reply

just be yourself her house is probably messy anyways.... and once the children arrive you know all the toy boxes are unloaded all over