My website, www.cherylklein.com, is now on a new, non-Verizon server. If you had any of the individual pages bookmarked, you may want to go to the website and update your links -- or, if you'd always wanted to bookmark a page but not been able to, you can now! My very great thanks to John Noe and Alex Robbin of the Leaky Cauldron for helping me out with this. I hope to do a total site redesign later this fall, so keep your eye on that page.
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In moving news, I'm slowly settling into Prospect Heights. . . . I found a grocery store I like; I'm learning how to work the cable box (this is the first time I've had cable in my house since I was, I think, ten years old); I've put most of my clothes away, and started on the books, which are the real bugaboo in unpacking. And James and I are discovering each other's various living preferences without, thus far, wanting to kill each other. . . . We have different tastes in brands of milk, for instance, but we can both adapt, and we're agnostics on the question of which way the toilet paper falls over the roll. (I do have to say that I disapprove of the way he opens a cereal bag. But he can be taught, right? Right.)
Friday, October 03, 2008
Movin' on Up
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Not wanting to kill each other in the first week is a good sign. I'm not sure about the cereal thing. After 15 years, my husband still rips the bag to pieces. But, I've learned to live with it.
ReplyDeleteOn a business note, I've been waiting anxiously for October to send you a SQUID. Will you let us know when you are ready for them? Thanks!
Just be glad he's not anti-book hoarding! (sigh -- a person *does* need three copies of EMMA, if they all have different emotional connotations, right?)
ReplyDeleteActually, no, they cannot be taught.
ReplyDeleteBut neither can we! After 13 years, my husband still cusses and I still nag ... but what the heck, we kind of brought this on ourselves anyway.
Regarding cereal bags (some of those are really hard to open!) one solution is to eliminate them all together and go with Tupperware or a similar storage container.
ReplyDeleteStill blissfully married after co-habitating for years...
There is a wonderful scene in The Other Boleyn Girl where the mother tells naughty Anne she must be banished to France to "study" under the wretched, old Queen. When Anne objects and asks what that old woman could possibly teach her, the mother wisely answers, "You must learn the art of maintaining control while allowing the man to believe think he is in control."
ReplyDeleteHopefully your destiny is a bit brighter than poor Anne's, but I suppose she never did quite figure out how to manage her men! :)
Ooops, typo!
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ReplyDeleteAfter 24 years together Walt and I don't worry about the small stuff. It's the big picture that counts!
99.9% of the time I am happy when he walks in the door. And he is happy to see me. The most important piece of advice I can give you is: remeber to do nice things for each other. When you do that the little stuff doesn't seem to matter.
Best Wishes,
Sharon
We have fought like lions over such important things as celery in the stir-fry, how to line up the cokes in the fridge, which was solved by those cartons that tear off at one end and roll the cans out, and leaving coat hangers in the bathroom... One of the biggest fights we ever had was over how to decorate the Christmas tree... Victorian Splendor met Bauhaus Minimalism with a resounding clash.
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The best advice that I ever received was, "Be as polite to your love as you would be to an absolute stranger.” It’s harder than it sounds but I at least aspire to it.
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The other bit of useful advice is the “Rule of Three”. If you mention something, like the coffee is the consistency of slurry, more than three times it’s nagging. You can still say it, but just realize that it is nagging, so either set up the coffee yourself or do what I do, which is suck it up.
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And thanks for the new website = pure awesome! I’ve been passing your “Picture Book Cookie” essay around to all our OC Illustrators group. When are you going to publish all these great tips in a book? (hint hint)
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Best thoughts,
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Marilyn.
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There was once a time I would have scoffed at the "he can be taught" line, but here I am 8 years later realizing that I know what a DUVET is and fixing BED SKIRTS... Look away.... I'm hideous.
ReplyDeletePardon me, I'm compulsive about commenting. I was just reading through the CWIM and found a list of editor's blogs. I was curious! So, thanks for letting me stop by. I'm sure I'll be back. I'm sure I'll leave more comments on this and that. And, I noticed a Mansfield Park bar title is missing... and of course, Northanger Abbey, but she is used to being left out of the spotlight.
ReplyDeleteBest of luck teaching Cereal Box Opening 101!
Dearest Movin',
ReplyDeleteGive up on the cereal box lesson for your man. Neither you nor anyone else can teach him at this point. (I am vaguely aquainted with your parents. Lovely people. Your father has his 'uneducatable issues'. Your mom deftly works around them.) Jen has the right idea - use storage containers. James can rip & tear to his heart's content. You can neatly pour the sugar bombs or granola crispies into your 'Martha' inspired containers. Everybody wins!!
Lucy van Pelt
My husband still cannot open any bag that recloses...he kills it beyond repair. He also lets the container of ice cream melt on the counter until it's so gushy I could never eat it even if does harden up again. And don't get me started on the toothpaste goop in the sink.
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