Man Jobs

I'm finding since my divorce, that I now have to do all the house maintenance myself...the MAN JOBS. I noticed back in say July, that I had plants growing in my eaves troughs?? I asked the Ex about it and he said they have to be cleaned out yearly, he used to do it each year...who knew? Certainly not I. The outside stuff was his department, not mine. I kept up the inside. So anyways, all these months I have put it off because I didn't think it wise to get on a ladder when I wanted to be lazy no one else was here. Then yesterday, I decided enough was enough. I had been out and about, and decided to by outside lights to hang for the holidays...for my daughters sake ;) I get home...pull out the ladder and realized before I hung the lights, it was TIME to clean the eaves troughs...because they certainly weren't going to clean themselves!(they never got done last year because, I was in such a fog I hadn't paid attention) It was EASY! Shelby was playing having a good time in the leaves and dirt and stayed away from the ladder as told. After completing that task I began on the lights, and I must say...I did a better job of hanging them then my Ex ever did!! Women just do things much neater than men, yah know? So anyways, I have been patting myself on the back ever since, and I'm pretty sure I've told everyone I know what a fabulous job I did.lol  What I am not looking forward to next, in my new found MAN JOBS is shoveling snow! *Grrrrrrrrrr* The past couple of years when I've had to do it, I curse my unfriendly neighbors with their snow blowers, for not helping out a single mom...I do this the entire time the shovel is in my hand! I then proceed to curse the city for as soon as I finish my LONG driveway, they conveniently decide to plow my street...leaving the end of the drive in a huge snowdrift!!! bastards