Yes...80s Music Is The New Elevator Music

 I saw this photo the other day, I don't know where. But, I had to snap a picture and send it to m wife. It describes us to a T.

A few years ago we bought a sound bar for our living room TV. It was on sale during Black Friday. It's not a good one, but it does what it's supposed to do--it amplifies music from our phones. It's perfect for when we bring out the duster and the vacuum cleaner from the laundry room and start cleaning, all the while listening to the songs of our youth.

We listen to my wife's playlist. I'm too lazy to create my own playlist so we use her's, and the one we listen to most is: 80s Alternative.

If you're not familiar with 80s Alternative, just listen to the music being pipped into the overhead speakers when you go shopping. 80s Alternative is the new elevator music. If you're too young to recognize elevator music, don't worry--just wait a decade or two and you'll be shopping for unspoiled produce when a song will come over the speakers and you'll stop.

Then, you'll remember the song.

Then you'll find it unbelievable that a song you used to dance to with your friends is now playing w/o lyrics on the grocery store sound system.

Then, you'll realize you're old.

But don't worry. Just go home, crank the tunes on your home speaker system, and do some cleaning.

Pulling My Weight...Something I Should Have Done Decades Ago

 Every night I see the same thing...of course, the past couple of days there have been more items in the sinks than usual, but the view from above looks down on dirty dishes. 

And they're my responsibility.

And I'm totally fine with it.

You see, my wife has made tens of thousands of meals for our family since we were married over thirty years ago. It's not always been easy--doing something multiple times day after day, week after week, year after year can be a pain in the neck. Yet, she's continued making meals for us and she is a wonderful cook--top rate. For the past several years, I've done the dishes, almost exclusively. 

I know I did the dishes before, but it was more on a "take turns" basis, which was never really fair because my wife made the meals, then many times did the dishes.

Not cool.

I don't know why it took me so long to just "man-up" and do the dishes every time. I can tell you that ever since I've been pulling my weight, the dishes have been done almost every night. Gone are the days where stacks of dishes accumulated in the sinks until finally someone caved.

I know that in order for people to stay together, they have to work things out between them--either spoken or unspoken...guaranteed. Like I said, I should have figured this out years ago.