I just rang my mum up and while on the phone to her the post came, one was an important letter telling me if DD has a school place. So I opened it while talking to her, she asked me what I was doing. I apolif=gised and explained what the letter was and that it was important. Then carried on talking and opened another letter.
My mum muttured something about how it normally anooys her people doing other stuff while on the phone and I said sorry again and pointed out that time is short and I'm off to work in an hour.
She then starts ranting at me that my time management skills are wrong and she "needs to have a talk" with me. I tell ehr that no we don't and that there's nothing wrong with my time management skills. She then starts saying that maybe I should have rung her earlier before the post came, etc, etc. Then she says that I spend too much time on the computer and not enough time doing housework.
I point out that I work 4 days a week and everything that needs doing in my house is done. We do have different levels of houseproudness. My house is a bit messy, but its clean. Food is cooked, dishwasher is done, laundry, ironing is done and hoover gets done as needed. Her house is spotless.
I tell we have different levels and that I'm happy with my house. She is now talking to me really condescending and saying its not fair on the other people in the house. I tell her if DH has a problem then he can pull his finger out his bum and do some housework.
She says thats not fair on him as he works 5 days a week and I only work 4. I point out that seeing as I'm the only person who irons, does supermarket shopping, walks the dog and does laundry then that equates to that extra day a week. She says I need to spend my one day a week off cleaning hte house from top to bottom. I think she needs to fuck off.
I'm happy with the amount of housework me and DH do between us. DH seems Ok with it apart from when I've had a mad cooking spree and he comes home to find the kitchen looks like its exploded. But it gets sorted.
I know she's going to be going on and fucking on about this for weeks now. She'll get DD on side as well because DD likes to play us off against each other and stir it. So mum will come to me saying that DD says you spends hours on the laptop.
I know I'm on MN and FB most days but I don't watch TV so this is now my relaxation time before starting work as I won't finish work till 10:00pm. So get no evening. Laundry has been done this morning, dog has been walked, pots put away, chickens fed, dishwasher is on.