Puteri’s World

Have you heard that among the popular stocking stuffers this year are health care gift cards? Hehe, this is the first I have heard of such a gift card!

I mean, I’d love to receive gift cards to a spa, a massage, or even a gift card to a beauty salon. But a health care gift card? Oh, they are mostly given to older adults! Heheh.

Maybe when I am older and wrinkled I won’t mind a gift card for Botox or a face lift. But I think my health insurance will take care of the colon screening, or the diabetic screening, so I don’t think a health care gift card will do me much good, except maybe if it helps with my prescription co-pays!

Recently Doug showed me an article he found in a Farm Show Magazine. It was about an online business selling a piece of clothing called the slanket. It is basically a big piece of fleece blanket with large sleeves. The slanket was originally designed for people who were using their laptops on their laps. It is hard to work on your laptop with your hands under your blanket!

 Image:  theslanket.com

 I thought I can make a slanket for myself because my studio is a very cold room. But since I haven’t made one yet, today I am wearing my fleece rob over my normal clothes. I used to wear my denim jacket or an outdoor jacket while working in my studio but I think my fleece robe is a lot more comfortable and it keeps me warm too!  Maybe instead of a slanket I should make a fleece caftan because the slanket does not have a back.  A fleece caftan does sound like a splendid idea! 

I hate housework. My house is such a mess. Clean laundry is piling up waiting to be folded and put away. Dirty laundry is piling up waiting to be put in the washer. The kitchen sink is full waiting for dishes to be put in the dishwasher.

Who wants to do housework when blogging is a lot more fun? Who wants to do housework when making jewelry is a lot more fun?

I wished I could afford a maid. Once a week maid service is also expensive. I don’t want to have to use all the money I make writing paid posts go to paying for maid service! Heheh, so I guess I’ll have to do my own housework! Sometimes I really wished that I was living in Malaysia where having a live-in maid is affordable.

Having kids in the house sure makes the house dirtier and untidy a lot more quickly!

A study of more than 17,000 people in 28 countries found that married men report doing less housework than live-in boyfriends, U.S. researchers said.

Sociologist Shannon Davis of George Mason University, and co-authors Theodore Greenstein and Jennifer Gerteisen Marks of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C., say their key finding suggests the institution of marriage changes the division of labor even for couples who see men and women as equal.

The study, published in Journal of Family Issues, found that in married relationships, even if an egalitarian viewpoint is present, men still report doing less housework than their wives.

“Our research suggests that couples across many countries are influenced by similar factors when deciding how to divide the housework,” Davis says in a statement. “It’s the way the society has defined what being married means, the institution itself, that affects behavior.”

The researchers say they did not track co-habitating couples over time to see if their division of housework changed after marriage.

Source: UPI via Science Daily

So what else is new,eh? For my case, I know for sure that my husband does more housework than any of my married brothers! I appreciate my husband’s help around the house. He does more than take the trash out on trash day. He helps with the dishes, helps with the kids - bathing, feeding and dressing them, as well as attend to all yard work.