I firmly believe we should never stop trying to better ourselves. This wonderful world can offer new and exciting experiences regardless of how much we think we know.<\/p>\n
I recently had a chance to put this belief into action. My wife wanted to paint the living room since we had a kid-free house for a few days. Even though I am not allowed to paint \u2013 that\u2019s a long story which goes back a number of years \u2013 I did offer to help prepare things for the project.<\/p>\n
So I moved furniture and carried the area rug upstairs. I made a Sunday morning trip to the hardware store and wandered around the aisles until we found everything on the list. I even spotted something we needed on a shelf before Maria did. That\u2019s husband-of-the-year type stuff right there.<\/p>\n
When we had the room all prepared and the supplies purchased, I thought I would be excused from the project. While I did have plenty of things I could accomplish on my own, particularly napping, I did want to help as much as possible.<\/p>\n
So Maria told me I could help clean the walls. Against my better judgment, I got excited. I could actually claim that I did something helpful on a painting project.<\/p>\n
We had purchased some special cleaning solution \u2013 that\u2019s the stuff I found at the store \u2013 to wipe down the walls, but I had a chance to help even before we got down to that dirty work.<\/p>\n
She let me use the Swiffer.<\/p>\n
At first, I didn\u2019t quite know what to do. She wanted me to use the contraption to clean the walls. The whole concept blew my mind. I almost needed to go lie down to process this information, but knew that would just get me in all kinds of trouble.<\/p>\n
So I attacked the job with the gusto I needed to mark another check box on my bucket list. I went up and down, side to side. I Swiffered like a champion.<\/p>\n
Sidebar: Is that the proper verb? Does one Swiffer? Swuff? Swaff? I think we need to tackle this linguistic conundrum.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I relished this opportunity to make a real difference in the project. As I worked my way around the room, dirt magically appeared on the little rag that you attach to the doo-hickey at the end of the thingamajig. I can neither confirm nor deny I had anything to do with dirt on the walls.<\/p>\n
Second sidebar: Can you believe that we only found two pieces of cereal on the floor when we moved all the furniture?<\/p>\n
I think I did a pretty good job with the Swiffer. Not only did I manage to clean up the walls a little, but I found lots of ways to work this particular task into many double-entendres. Isn\u2019t that the whole point of allowing a man to help around the house? Doesn\u2019t it all come down to the jokes?<\/p>\n
The painting project continues so I can only offer moral support. But when everything is said and done, I know people will look at our living room and say, \u201cWho Swaffed these walls?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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