Over here, there's a TV show called "Help, mijn man is klusser". "Help, my husband is a do-it-yourself-er" and people basically write in asking for help because their husbands have started projects all over the house and not finished them, so there are holes in walls, no insulation, they've ripped out the flooring and never put in new, they've messed with the wiring.....that kind of thing. So the houses are actually dangerous because of these projects that never get finished. Mine isn't up to that level, but he does procrastinate something terrible. We've lived in this house for.....17 years? He never did finish the moulding. He also never finished the outlets....there's an exposed outlet without a cover in the kitchen, and the one in the laundry hangs out of the wall. I can actually USE that outlet....it has the cover, it's just not set into the wall, where the one in the kitchen is just wires. I can't use that one. He detached the lever to open the window in my son's room to put in a screen when he realized I was right and there was no way to open the window if you put a screen in, because the lever would be between the screen and the window. So he quit, never took the screen stuff back to the store, never put the lever back on. He broke the bar slide lock off the port door because he wanted a lock we could open and close from the outside. I told him it wouldn't work....the door overlaps the frame...for a regular lock, it would have to sit flush with the frame and be wide enough that you could set a deadbolt in it. He insisted it would work, broke the old lock off, bought all the stuff for the kind he wanted, and then realized I was right...that kind of lock won't work with the kind of door we have. And since he couldn't unscrew the old lock and had to break it off, it couldn't be put back on. So all we've got is the peg that goes into the ground to keep it from opening. And we still can't open it from the outside. We have to walk all the way around the block and through the house to lock it behind us. It's all these little things, but why does he insist on buying the stuff BEFORE he knows it will work? I finally took over mowing the lawn because he'd procrastinate for weeks until the grass was 2 feet high and full of weeds, and he'd keep saying "I'll do it tomorrow" or "I'll do it this weekend." Then there would always be an excuse why he couldn't do it then, and it would go one for weeks until I finally just said "Show me how to use the mower!" I have hay fever and I'm extremely sensitive to the sun, and the grass was ruined before I took it on, so now it looks terrible and I get exasperated with the state of it, but at least it gets done now. Like you said, I get it....he has a fulltime job. But I also work parttime, and with all the OTHER things I have to do around the house, it's MORE than fulltime. We don't have room for a Christmas tree at all, so I guess I don't have to worry about it getting taken down.
I went for a walk, too.
