27 thoughts on “Necessary Evils”

1. I could have been fine without the chin hair comment!

   Cellphones are EVIL, ugh.

   I love your list.

2. p.s.

   Working=money, both evils.

3. I could certainly do without the chin hair! It’s really just one… and seems to appear overnight every few months.

   Yes working and money – both necessary evils….

4. Yay, I finally am reading your blog, Allison! My apologies for taking so long, because obviously it has been steaming forward for some time now.

   Necessary evil: housecleaning. That’s it. I mean, you work your ass off and just have to do it all over again. Enough said.
   Michelle, you are mental because you LOVE it. Ugh.

5. I just thought of another one:parking garages. They make me incredibly anxious.

6. A colonoscopy. Yes I know early detection can save lives but it is degrading, and the “night before” preparation is just horrible!

7. Vegetables (I know they’re good for me, but there are many of them that I still just don’t like).

   I agree with Michelle on the work & money thing…

   Getting dressed- I absolutely hate trying to decide what to wear to work each morning (I think I’d like to live in a nudist colony)

   Waiting at traffic lights… or just traffic in general.

   And of course everything on your list.

8. Tweezers, yes. I have a mole on my jawline that likes to spring a few black whiskers from it’s surface area now and then. I can’t really see it so Zach always has to say “Um…can you pluck these?”

9. Chris & Erica – delighted you dropped by. Do so often and help liven up my site. You guys are all so creative…. Erica, your blog keeps me in stitches.

10. Neighbors? I’m so unsocial. It’s not that I don’t like them, its just that I don’t know what to say to them. The only thing I have in common with my neighbors is that we live on the same street. They’re great people, but I still hide when I see them outside.

    Airlines. Totally evil. Any other business that treated their customers with so little concern or respect for their customers needs, and with such lousy service would go out of business in no time.

    Shopping for clothes. Oh, I know most people really enjoy it. But I’ve hated it since I was a kid. I used to ask my mom if she could just go pick out my school clothes for me. I hate trying clothes on. Especially now at my size, NOTHING looks good on me. Totally miserable experience.

    I’m with Chris on the house cleaning. There is simply no satisfaction in it.

    That’s what comes to mind at the moment.

11. Oh, and hello….EXERCISE. Why is it necessary at all? Why can’t we just exist on cookie dough and be done with it.

12. Definitely exercise. That should have been on my list.

    I’d also add cooking. I love eating, but really wish someone else would do it for me…. or have tasty, nutritious meals magically appear before me when I am hungry.

13. YES neighbors! I run for the hills when I see one coming my way…I hate chit chat small talk.

    TRYING ON CLOTHES I also hate, that’s why I drag Erica with me, she makes me try on things against my will. If I could afford a personal shopper it would be done.

14. Perhaps Allison should list “going to bed. Or getting out of bed”. 🙂 Please note the time of Allison’s previous post and comparee it to Michelle’s. It just made me laugh. The truth is, it could very easily have been 3:30am, as she is known to stay up that late from time to time.

15. LOL–good catch Kris.

    2:24am, that’s my girl Alli.

16. Heavy sigh…. yeah… that’s me. I actually didn’t get in bed last night til about 3:30am because I was hunting down another giant hobo spider in my living room. Man those things are fast. But I got him on a sticky mat – and watched him struggle and struggle to get free (he didn’t).

17. (not that I need an excuse to be getting to bed at 3:30am…. even when I don’t have an excuse, that is often the norm)

18. Are we intentionally avoiding “Annual Female Exams”?

    I have a great story about female exams. Perhaps one day I can share it with those of you who have not heard about it.

19. Yes please, I would love to hear it.

20. Okay, here you go. This actually isn’t my own personal experience, but I feel I need to share it.

    Good Hygiene Will Really Wow The Doctor

    I was due later that week for an appointment with the gynecologist, when early one morning I received a call from his office saying that I had been rescheduled for early that morning at 9:30 AM. I had just packed everyone off to work and school and it was around 8:45 already. The trip to his office usually took about 35 minutes so I didn’t have any time to spare.

    As most women do, I’m sure, I like to take a little extra effort over hygiene when making such visits, but this time I wasn’t going to be able to make the full effort. So I rushed upstairs, threw off my dressing gown, wet the washcloth and gave myself a wash in “that area” in front of the sink, taking extra care to make sure that I was presentable. I threw the washcloth in the clothes basket, donned some clothes, hopped in the car and raced to my appointment.

    I was in the waiting room only a few minutes when he called me in. Knowing the procedure, as I am sure all women do, I hopped up on the table, looked over at the other side of the room and pretended I was in Hawaii or some other place a million miles away from here.

    I was a little surprised when he said, “My… we have taken a little extra effort this morning, haven’t we?” but I didn’t respond.

    The appointment over, I heaved a sigh of relief and went home. The rest of the day went normal, some shopping, cleaning and the evening meal, etc.

    At 8:30 that evening my 14 year old daughter was getting ready for a school dance, when she called down from the bathroom, “Mom… where’s my washcloth?” I told her to get another from the cabinet. She called back, “No, I need the one that was here by the sink. It had all my glitter and sparkles in it.”

21. ROFLOL…. oh, that is spectacular….

22. That is hilarity. I wonder if my female ob/gyn would appreciate extra effort like that. Maybe we could market a new product???

23. I love that story. I read it out loud to Tim and we both had a good laugh.

24. I laughed til I wheezed (Asthma season) anyway I loved it !

25. Oh…on the list…
    Washing, Ironing and washing Dishes…
    also having to wear “professional attire” when I much prefer jeans and T shirts !

26. First, sun screen. I hate putting on sun screen, it gets all over my hands and makes me all greasy and smelly. But the alternative is to fry my delicate, pasty white skin. Sun screen is necessary, but it’s evil.

    Secondly, sales people. It is true that nothing happens until somebody sells something, but they are a pain in the butt to work with.

27. Spam filters. Those are necessary evils. Or maybe just necessary pain in the butts.