Comments on: Creeping Guyification

By: Jolana Malkston

Jolana Malkston — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 04:09:24 +0000

I’m trying, Lucy. Macho Guy suggested I decorate the shelves on the new larger than life TV stand, which I did tastefully, placing one attractive object on each shelf but on opposite sides, kind of zig-zag. Later on, when I came up from the fully guyified lower level where my office is located, he said, “It looks good. I like what you did, and I added to it.” Lord, give me strength. I walked over and he had “evened things out” by placing a couple of old tacky Christmas decorations in the “bare spots.” (He’s an engineer with OCD; everything has to balance evenly.) I wanted to scream but managed to just say, “eww” instead. Despite his grumbling, I removed the tacky Christmas decorations and found more tasteful non-seasonal objects with which to fill in the “bare spots” so they wouldn’t drive him crazy the way his idea of decorating drives me crazy. ::sigh::

By: Jolana Malkston

Jolana Malkston — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 03:48:01 +0000

I feel your pain, Melissa. Macho Guy even made guyification inroads into my home office–which is supposed to be my very own personal workspace. I accumulated so many books that I needed another bookshelf to match my golden oak waterfall style desk and the 4 bookshelves in my office. He nixed that–too expensive, he said–and he went to an estate auction and brought home a hideous orange-toned fake oak bookshelf that probably never saw better days even when it was new. And then, to store my office supplies, he spray-painted a used double gym locker that was once in our elder son’s bedroom. Waste not, want not. And I wanted it not in my office. 🙁

By: Jolana Malkston

Jolana Malkston — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 03:30:47 +0000

I think he’s taking the “King of the Castle” thing too seriously. He should know by now that, “If the Queen ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.”

By: Lucy Kubash

Lucy Kubash — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 03:16:35 +0000

Last summer I did something I’d been threatening to do for six years–replace the living room curtains. We still had the ones that were there when we moved in six years ago. They were the old traverse rod kind and were starting to look pretty sad. Luckily my daughter was here and so we shopped together and she helped me put them up. These actually had a nice pattern and, heaven forbid, grommets at the top! The grumbling started after she went home. “I don’t like these.” “They’re too hard to close.” Eight months later he still won’t close them at night because there is no cord to pull. Go figure. Stand your ground, Lana!

By: Melissa Keir

Melissa Keir — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 23:18:12 +0000

Good luck with your war. I no longer have any furniture in our house. I have been forced to even *gasp* get rid of two book shelves (and said books). I’m hiding in the bedroom as I type this and hope that I get to keep the bed. 🙂

By: Diane Burton

Diane Burton — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:36:28 +0000

LOL I’m surprised he’s held out this long on the living room.

By: Jolana Malkston

Jolana Malkston — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:20:15 +0000

Thank you, Alyssa. I have a feeling I’m going to need lots of good luck. The satellite man will be here today to install Genie. Something tells me Macho Guy will soon want a Mega TV in every room–maybe even beside the master bath whirlpool tub. ::shudder::

By: Alyssa Alexander

Alyssa Alexander — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:56:35 +0000

Ha! Funny how they take over the house. Good luck with the girlification!