Dear Appliances,
As you may be aware, the Bo Hunkmeister
is going on a trip. This letter shall serve as your official notice
to stay on duty. Previously, when the Bo Hunkmeister has gone away, a
few of you decided that it would be great fun to stop working and leave
me bereft of your services. While this has at times provided a small
amount of amusement in the form of blog posts, in general, it has
been a highly irritating happenstance.
Therefore, I am formally putting you on
notice that failure to work according to your accepted standards will
not be tolerated. It has already been an expensive year with the
furnace, alternator and van transmission deciding to go AWOL. So much
so that the Bo Hunkmeister and I were contemplating celebrating New
Year’s Eve June 1 in the hopes of ending an expensive year and
starting a newer, less expensive one. The UN however denied our
request to alter the time/space continuum.
Thus you are hereby ordered to continue
working. Please heed this notice. As the mom of six, two born by
C-section, I am not to be trifled with. To paraphrase Shakespeare,
hell hath no fury like a mom left without her appliances.
In closing, treat me right and I will
treat you right. Resort to your previous hi-jinks and there will. be.
pain.
Love Always,
the Domestic Goddess
