QotD: Chores
Which household chores do you most/least enjoy?
Submitted by falcon.kmc.
Enjoy so much they're not really chores anymore:
Yardwork.
Cooking.
Don't mind doing:
Laundry.
Washing dishes, although usually my husband does them.
Cleaning bathroom, except for the bathtub.
Sweeping and mopping, which I find kind of meditative. We don't have carpet, but I find vacuuming to be similarly calming.
Hate, hate, hate:
Ironing. I just don't, actually. I don't even think we have an iron right now. It doesn't matter because neither of us has jobs that require us to be wrinkle-free and shiny. It's funny, though. In high school, I used to starch and iron creases into all of my shirts (except T-shirts) and jeans. Ah, those were the days.
Cleaning the friggin' bathtub.
Dusting. Mostly I hate having to move everything. We have partially solved this problem by not buying tchotchkes, but there are still always things laying around that have to be moved if you're to properly dust. Makes you want to become a monk.
Anything that involves a ladder. I don't like being on ladders. I have Meniere syndrome, and thus I am prone to random bouts of severe vertigo. It's really hell to get one of those while you're on a ladder doing something. It's also not good to get them while driving, so I don't drive a lot. My husband does a lot of the ladder stuff, which is fine because it gives me a chance to admire his calf muscles. Those are some fine-looking calf muscles, let me tell you.
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Eh, I probably should not have said that like that. I may have Meniere's--so far, no other explanation has been found, but it's hard to diagnose for sure. I have some symptoms that are not classical, though. I don't just get rotational vertigo, for example. I get a whole smorgasbord of vertigos. Sometimes I feel like I'm spinning, usually it feels more like I'm going down a funnel, spinning and dropping at the same time. I also sometimes just feel like the ground has just suddenly dropped out from under me and I'm in free fall. I get the classic rotational vertigo, too. Vertigo has become a frequent companion.
But I keep hoping it will turn out to be something fixable.
We think mine was probably started during a very severe ear infection I had when I was 15 or so. Nothing seems to have been right in my head since then. I used to always tell my mom I had a brain tumor, which isn't really funny, but I couldn't figure out what was wrong. I also get migraines, and at that time I had excruciating cluster headaches, too. The cluster headaches seem to have stopped now, thank God. I used to lie there with the headache and fantasize about lobotomizing myself with a band saw. That would have been far less painful, but I'm afraid it would have scarred.