My love don’t cost a thing… except $20 and a sink full of dishes

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Karl loves me:
Karl loves me

And, you know, I love him too:

…because I let him take a photo of my boobs! And Dawg pointing at them!

Speaking of Dawg… He did the dishes. Without me asking.

Best boyfriend EV-AR, in the entire universe. Poor Ripley, corrupted again by our bedroom discussion. Oh well. :grins:

41 thoughts on “My love don’t cost a thing… except $20 and a sink full of dishes”

  1. Hey!

    Where’s the PayPal button for the $5 a view???

    How am I going to afford getting you stripped down now tomorrow night??? :winks:

  3. You guys are so damn cute…but I have to say Ripley’s cuter..that is one gorgeous cat! And I can’t believe you fit $400 worth of groceries in your kitchen..we need video proof woman!
    Seriously…so happy for you guys..and good luck on the job hunt! :smiles:

  6. Nervous blushy (yes, we can HEAR you blush) laughter is adorable. And so are cute couples.

    Also, you gotta love Ripley’s “I’m surrounded by lunatics” look at the end.

  7. i laughed out loud several times during that video. you two crack me the hell up.

    reilly is laying on the couch with me and he watched the entire video with me, turning his head sideways at ripley. ludo likes how poppy laughs and had his nose pressed up against the lappytop monitor a few times.

    p.s. i have a few of those flattened bottle cheese plate / spoon rest / whatever the hell you want em to be thingies. loven your blue one.

  9. Tell Dawg I have some dishes in my sink that need to be done. Does he empty dishwashers? Because my dishwasher needs to emptied too.

  10. Steph, an excellent point. Keep in mind, everything is waaaaaay overpriced in NY. I paid $4.59 for lactose-free cheese that I would have paid $2.69 for in Vermont. Also, I bought a lot of cleaning supplies and non-edibles. And I finally found the Clorox toilet wand! So, I bought that too. :grins:

    BB, when we went to the really good Chinese food restaurant to get take-out a woman outside commented on his shirt. He turned to me after and said, “she has nooooo idea.” Ahhh, I love having a famous boyfriend that not everyone recognizes yet.

    Creature, she truly is surrounded by lunatics. And, yah, I was totally :blush: during parts of that video. Good thing I wasn’t on camera! :grins:

    Hola, Dawg’s favorite aunt gave us a bunch of kitchenware for the apartment, including that glass bottle thingie. I think it’s supposed to hang on a wall, but I like using it to hold the onion and garlic instead.

    Delmer, Dawg needs no coaxing. He’s OCD, he has to clean up. But, like me, it’s selective OCD. We are surrounded by boxes until my stuff gets here from VT, and the mess is comforting. Having a messy sink? Not comforting to either one of us.

    Lisa, he does empty dishwashers! He’s very domestic. Although, I’m getting the impression he does not do bathrooms. Luckily I finally have the perfect cleaning gadgets for the bathroom so that I enjoy cleaning it even though I say “YUCK, YUCK, YUUUUUCK!” the whole time.

  12. the little loops on the top of the flattened wine bottles are so that they can be displayed on the wall as decorations until you need em as cheese plates (wine and cheese, two of my favorite things…is 11 am too early for wine drinking?). i also use mine as spoons rests just as you also use yours to hold garlic. it is all good! i’m all about multifunctional.

  15. As BB said, love the t-shirt.

    I do dishes every once in a while and without being asked. As long as I have my iPod on, it’s all good. We don’t have a dishwasher, so it’s all sink, soap and water.

  17. Dishwashing without asking is one of those jewels within the relationship. From a guy perspective, it’s a great move.

  18. All I saw was a picture of a shirt. I saw no pictures of your boobs. But I totally understand. I wouldn’t want my boobs on the internet either.

  23. Oh thank you for stopping him from continuing with the hand soap.

    You two are so cute getting used to the domestic stuff together!

    Oh Dawg, please, please shut the water off in between rinsing!! ARGGHH!

  24. Wait a second.

    How is hand soap worse than dish soap? If anything it should be BETTER since most handsoap is used after using the toilet! :hrmph:

    P.S.

    The water must run to keep the germ killing heat in motion.

  26. OMG NO!!!!!!!!

    Once the water is hot enough, shutting it off for 30 seconds is not going to make it suddenly not hot.

    Do you leave the water running when you brush your teeth too??

  27. OMG I totally do!!!

    Besides… have you ever noticed how your dishwasher uses water constantly? That’s to keep the heat and the H2O movin’ to loosen up the food particles and the bacteria. I’m not only quicker, and more efficient, but I’m cuter too! :grins:

    Not leaving the water running means it stagnates… and the only type of safe stagnant water is the chlorine brimmed type in a swimming pool.

    Remember… this is New York… the site of the frontline battle against the West Nile Virus.

  29. Ha! I got backstage passes to eco-hell!!!

    Bring on the global warming I say! I’m all about surfing down 5th Avenue! :grins:

  30. Hola, just pretend you work 2nd or 3rd shift then 11am is not too early to drink. You’re welcome.

    Tense, I’m really glad my site does that for you. :love:

    Shelli, if you asked Dawg he would tell you he’s not a good guy, which amuses me.

    Marty, we have two dishwashers! Dawg and Poppy!

    Steph, I definitely enjoyed using it the other day, and going “eww, eww, EWWWWWW!” the whole time I used it.

    Dan, he definitely gets thanked properly for doing them. (I scooped his ice cream for him! Gutter-minded people!!!)

    Wah, Karl has X-ray vision.

    BB, and Poppy is a lucky, lucky girl. :grins:

    Bearette, I do enjoy watching him hold his hands in that soapy water… :blush:

    Just Me, he says it from time to time. I don’t think I’ve heard anyone else say it…

    Jan, I do, in fact, love birds! :grins:

    Britt, so far it’s been super easy living together. It’s very strange. The only thing that ever happens that’s “bad” revolves around food. If one of us has reached the stage where we want to gnaw an arm off it’s time for an emergency feeding session. We have plenty of snacks in the house for this exact reason.

    And…

    Dawg, I’m with you on the water thing. Don’t care if we’re going to eco-hell, I always leave the water running while doing dishes, unless I’m soaping up a ton of utensils all at once. Not having the water running actually skeeves me out.

    Avi, do you do dishes?!

    But, when I brush my teeth I don’t leave the water running.

  37. oh for fuck’s sake…ya buy a $1.75 dishpan and fill it with hot an soapy water. wash the dish, the set it beside the dishpan, in the sink. when you have enough stacked up, turn on the water and rinse the fuckers. then go back for more. you don’t leave the water running!!!
    (where is the slap head smiley thingy?)

  39. Or you could buy a dishwasher. The electric kind. *ducking and running*

    For the record, my husband does the dishes. I almost never do. He scrubs them under running water with a scrubber and then he loads them into the dishwasher. That’s why I don’t do the dishes because I would just put them in the dishwasher and let it take care of the scrubbing. He can’t stomach that. So he does them. (Did I mention that I hate doing the dishes? ) :winks:

  40. Hola, so we get a dishpan and then leave the water on anyway? :grins: For it it’s an OCD thing, I won’t be stopping it. When we are suddenly so wealthy we have a permanent dishwasher on staff then we’ll save the environment. At least we recycle… and reuse…

    Shelli, I’ve had an apartment dishwasher before, one that hooked up to the kitchen faucet! Gave it away to a wonderful woman who rescues bunnies and dogs, so needed a dishwasher for their food and water bowls. As long as the dishes got cleaned I don’t care if they were pre-washed before washed.