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Show Can your mamage pass the Sheetrock Test? I started out a few weeks ago writing an article about testing your marriage. I got so carried away talking about balancing the checkbook that I didnt that you remodel or build a deal on the materials, don't house together. Nothing in the marriage vows prepares you for believe him. And when he says complete lack of communication. First you have to remember together) are going to help him build the house, dont even believe that for a minute. If he has friends, he soon wont. They will otherwise be occupied that his brothers and friends (people that want to play basketball and drink beer this amount of stress, and misunderstandings that all the stupidity your husband has have time here-to-fo- to finish some of the other tests that re demonstrated is going to double when involved in a kitchen remodel. You will be amazed at the stupidity that any marriage must endure. Please feel free to me with other ideas that need to be discussed in a public forum. I am sure there are many ail also use the classic book written Besides the checkbook, there are other testa for your marriage at least as effective as looking at ink blots with your therapist and guessing what they are. If your marriage is up to it and you truly want to go to the next, level in testing your marriage, might I suggest First, when your husband the market for a comparable house, dont listen to him. When he says that he knows some people that can get him a might work with contractors. get finished one second sooner. So I became a out of necessity. Well, that and I watch too much TV. I don't want to sound the least bit like I think that I am smart or anything. Buuuttttt, I watched this lady cute little petite thing add a monster deck in less than an hour. If she can do it... so can I. Right? Wrong! NOT!!!! Trust me, consecutive days. I don't know who is in charge of their scheduling, but rest assured he doesn't give a rats tailend whether or not Dummies and checking prices on building materials. All the money estimates are completely bogus and you may as well double the money and triple the amount of time. If you can live with that, please comes to you and says that he can sell the house for four times My too kind and loving wife tried the feed them trick. I mean, it works with other rodents and small mammals... so you would think that it of Best I can tell, the only thing problem a that actually getting happens is that they start contractor to showing up around lunch time show up at your with their buddies, my food house for two bill goes up, and the job doesn't be spending every moment waking consumed with for Remodeling Damnation. much. 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You can play basketball (he other tests that need our by Satan himself, Be Your Own expert analysis. THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday, February 21, 2001 - Page 60602. you can cover every thing, including the cat, with fine white sheetrock dust. Oh, and your nose hairs will forever be covered with sheet rock dust., but please feel free to continue coating your lungs and loved ones with the stuff. Sheetrocking is, of course, one of my all time favorites and one that I am personally acquainted. Having remodeled my house too many times, I know for a fact that nothing tests the .depth of your love as having your too kind and loving wife hold sheet rock above her head, balanced on a chair, while her husband, the ultimate drops the nail, drops the hammer, misses the 2X4, hits his thumb, drops everything, and swears. However, the entire time he insists that Tve just about got it. But it doesn't sound like that because he is holding a few nails in between his lips so it sounds .more like, Illwjesttttboutgottttiiittt, ughhhh. Until he swallows a nail and has to be rushed to the emergency room. Okay, technically I didnt swallow the nail since it was stuck half way down, merely restricting the flow of oxygen to the brain and causing acute panic. Oops, I did it again, the rest ofthe tests for your marriage will be forthcoming. |