"Skill? Some skill. Putting in an IV, or a catheter, that's a skill. Assembling a cysto scope, that's a skill. Scrubbing a liver transplant, that's a skill."
But I kept thinking, well, that attention to detail, completing a job, that is where I first learned this. No, I don't iron clothes anymore, save a few hats and perhaps once a year for something special, or D's shirts in the summer when he has to be a bit more nicely dressed at work. Intermittent, let us amend.
Not a skill, exactly, but an attitude. Done when I was a kid for an unlikable father, most often. At work, for cranky and ungrateful surgeons - which takes nothing away from my own satisfaction - should I chose to be so satisfied.
Moby takes satisfaction napping on my ankles.
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'should I have chosen to be so satisfied' perhaps.
If I am diligent in removing certain of my apparel from the dryer immediately after the cycle is complete, or soon thereafter, anyhow, I can get away with not ironing it. This is not the normal case. Even still, I more often wear the garment wrinkled rather then do the ironing.
or, perhaps 'should I choose to be so satisfied', upon re-reading.
Phil,
Quite correct, choose. or have chosen. or so willen, haven chose to then thereafter was been. But that's only correct when using a time travel and the tenses are hell.
I too like to hang beautiful lengths of fabric/saris/tablecloths as curtains.
YOur house is now looking like a home.
Do you have a garden?
herhimnbryn,
Yes! Well, will be a garden. No idea how much sun it will get. May have to put the tomatoes and chilis in the front yard. Herbs and lettuce in the back.
Coming from a long line of tailors and textile merchants, I grew up with irons in places of honour. Those old black ones with the curved wood handles that held pieces of coal were displayed on the mantle. My ancestors all had muscular arms.
Cat on ankles- wants you to stay where you are
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