Ugh. I hate house cleaning. I’m not unhygienic, mind you. I don’t have creatures residing in my sink or anything like that. But let’s just say that everything does not always find its way back to its place under my purview.
And yet, if someone whose opinion I care about is coming to visit, I will spend days vacuuming and straightening and organizing. Heavy emphasis on the “whose opinion I care about” part. I hate to say it, but the older I get, the less I care about the opinions of most people. Seriously, I just can’t be bothered.
If I ever have any doubt about the depth of my feelings for someone, I simply have to see how much effort I’m willing to put into gaining their good opinion. And that’s ironic, because those people, in general, are the very ones whose good opinion is pretty much guaranteed.
It kind of reminds me of the Seinfeld episode in which Elaine decides who is, and is not, sponge-worthy. With me, the question is, are you vacuum-worthy? If you are, my friend, consider yourself in an elite group, indeed.
That is truly a measure of importance that I can identify with as well.
Great minds think alike! 🙂
I only cook for people that I like. If you’re a guest in someone’s home, and you’re not pleased, that’s on you.
Yes!
Not concerned with your opinion of me (yes, I’m that old) but if I care enough to invite you I feel privileged to look after your comfort. So, normally I’m a nurturer, but show up uninvited and I’ll make you vacuum. Then again, with my allergies and asthma, I may have you dusting and vacuuming even if you are invited. I’ll still cook. 🙂
Why don’t we pronounce both the u’s in vacuum?
Why don’t we just take one of the u’s out of there. Life is too short for superfluous u’s. But I like your housekeeping philosophy.
Well I dropped the superfluous n on Lyn and no one died. With today’s texting shorthand you’d think superfluous letter dropping would be the norm. It’s not as if u’s aren’t being used enough already…superfluous has three very necessary u’s. The down side to letter dropping…how it impacts your scrabble strategies and scores. 🙂
Maybe we need a scrabble, suplerfluous edition.