Livin' The Dream

Here's proof that dreams do come true...

Does anyone give a rats that I was cooking dinner at the time? Didn't think so.



From Hubby to hottie with the drag of a vacuum, the plug of a lead and the push of a button...


What? Good deeds deserve celebrating -
with smudgy glasses.

 

If you're acquainted with this little spot, you'll know that Hubby don't vac.
Unless you blog it into being, it seems.


For good measure, Magoo entered the room, laughed and said
"Daddy! What choo doing??!"
When I suggested Daddy could do it again sometime, they both looked quite dismayed.
Hubby quickly explained to Magoo that he wouldn't have time for their "fun stuff" if he took up vacuuming!

Keep dreaming the dream people - and blogging the blog!

Off to compose a little post about men cleaning bathrooms while I'm on a roll here.


Shar :-)

He's Doing What???

Sometimes I mistakenly think I might be modern, hip, with it, current...
You know, not living in the dark ages.
Sometimes I'm wrong.

I saw this ad in the weekend's papers  - or the recyclable packaging for copious promotional material posing as a newspaper here in W.A.
Immediately I was struck by the stereoptype switch or role reversal depicted in it.


Could be the cover of a houswives' raunchy magazine, really.

When I showed it to Hubby he didn't even notice.
Hmmm.
But their target market would have on some level, right?
Well, I did.
If you're still in the dark, wondering what I'm banging on about 
- the man is vauuming.
The man. While the woman looks on.


If I wasn't already in a happy, committed relationship with my own beautiful Dyson I may have considered such a purchase.

Magoo and I would love to watch Hubby enjoy a spot of vacuuming while looking on from the clean couch in our pristine finest.


There my 1950s-esque self was, thinking that they were cleverly and subtley turning society's stereoptypes on their head in this avant garde campaign.

Until...
Later that day, I opened  Kate's blog (Our Little Sins) to realise that it was probably only my personal stereotype that this ad was actually challenging


She featured a pic of her man, the Innovator, vacuuming their place.
For real.
(Love the blur effect too. We can't show you this man's face because he is in trouble with men like Shar's Hubby for raising the bar.)

The pic didn't actually show gorgeous Kate and her children reclining and gazing on with familial pride and adoration - but I'm sure they were.

So, there you go.
A raging dinosaur I am.
Guess I'd better go back to my rightful place in the kitchen now.

Did you notice / care that the handsome man was happily engaged in housework?

Shar :-)