Women's Work?


Results from the second annual Dirty Work Survey are in, and even though men are making a bigger effort, women are still bearing the brunt of the housework.
  • 58% of women say it's their "job" to clean
  • 45% of men say it's their job to clean and contribute to the household
  • 75% of men help clean the house to make their spouse happy.
  • But best of all... 38% of women do all the cleaning because they don't trust the guy to get it right.

Great phoner (lots of traffic yesterday): Hate to give away our secret, ladies, but men will purposefully deceive you to get out of housework. We'll ruin a load of laundry or break a few dishes, acting like we don't know what we're doing, to get you to take over.

Have you ever done this to a guy? Do women do this? What have you purposefully ruined so you could get out of doing it forever?


Straight to Bed


A new Singles in America survey found more than half of us have had sex on the first date, but we have an excuse! The research discovered that since most of us now meet online, we tend to know each other better before actually going out on the first date. Translation: The small talk is out of the way and it's "go time!" Other discoveries:

— 58 percent of singles have had a one-night stand (65 percent of men and 51 percent of women).

— 44 percent had not experienced infidelity; of those who had, 36 percent said a partner had been unfaithful, 8 percent had personally been unfaithful, and 13 percent said both were.

— 60 percent said a partner having a series of one-night stands was “more unacceptable” than a three-month affair with one person; 40 percent said a three-month affair was worse.
Source

Diving into the survey even deeper (CAUTION):

-Men, not women, are the ones more willing to settle down
-Bad sex is a deal breaker for women
-Conservative Republicans are the most satisfied in the bedroom reporting the highest frequency of orgasm of all the survey respondents.
Source


So She IS Losing Interest!


Get this -- a separate study has unearthed what most of us knew already --women get less and less interested in sex as the years roll on.  In fact, the formula goes like this: "For each additional month women in this study were in a relationship with their partner, their sexual desire decreased by .002 on the Female Sexual Function Index." Source  (we're talking every woman except yours...she's still totally into you.  I mean, how could she not?)


Valentine's -- For the Dude In Your Life


Yesterday I had 7 great gift ideas for her, so today I found 10 great ideas for him from YourTango.com:


  1. The Economist (magazine and online edition - $126.99)
  2. The Gift of Silver (DVD of "Archer" on FX $17)
  3. Gift of Lace (Lingerie...for you, silly...unless he loves wearing it, too, but that's another issue for another day)
  4. The Gift of Fire (Kenmore 4-Burner LP Red Gas Grill $329.99)
  5. The Gift of Rock (Rock climbing lessons)
  6. The Gift of Magic (Skyrim on Xbox $59.95)
  7. The Gift of Stars (Portable mini-dish from Dish Network $500)
  8. The Gift of Steel (A Leatherman Charge at REI $114.95)
  9. The Gift of Music (Soundsystem for his iPad $150)
  10. The Gift of Ice (ice skates $89)


Get links to them all here


Super Bowl Quickies


4 out of 5 moms would rather have sex than watch the Super Bowl. (unless dad finds out, then the game will be just fine, thankyouverymuch)

Check out a teaser ad for Madonna's half-time show (there's a part where she's jumping rope on stage -- something she learned after taking her boyfriend on playdates to the park)

President Obama said he won't make a prediction over who is going to win on Sunday to avoid getting into trouble. "When the Bears are not involved, I can't make predictions because I will get into trouble." Of course, by trouble, he means political trouble. Both team owners have contributed $5,000 to the Obama campaign.  Source

Foley's Pub and Restaurant in New York City will ban the sale of Samuel Adams beers during the Super Bowl to show support for the Giants. Sam Adams beer, of course, is produced by the Boston Beer Co. Instead, they'll push patrons to drink beers made by Brooklyn Brewery.  Source

Super Bowl party dish ideas...



Cuttin' Cake


Morgan Fairchild (62)
Nathan Lane (56 )
Thomas Calabro (53 Dr. Michael Mancini on "Melrose Place")
Maura Tierney (47 )

Today is Bubble Gum Day, National Wear Red Day (which raises awareness for Go Red For Women, a national movement about women and cardiovascular disease), and Sunday is Super Bowl 46 (the NY Giants vs. the New England Patriots. Giants won in this same matchup 4-years ago).


Primetime, Baby!


 CBS: A Gifted Man (NEW), CSI: NY (NEW), Blue Bloods (NEW)
NBC: Who Do You Think You Are? (Season Premiere/Martin Sheen traces his family roots), Grimm (NEW), Dateline (NEW)
ABC: Shark Tank (NEW), Primetime: What Would You Do? (NEW), 20/20
FOX: Kitchen Nightmares (NEW), Fringe (NEW)
CW: Nikita (NEW), Supernatural (NEW)


Joke of the Day


 A police officer sees a man driving around with a pickup truck full of penguins. He pulls the guy over and says, "You can't drive around with penguins in this town! Take them to the zoo immediately."

The guy says okay, and drives away. The next day, the officer sees the guy still driving around with the truck full of penguins -- and they're all wearing sunglasses. He pulls the guy over and demands, "I thought I told you to take these penguins to the zoo yesterday?"

The guy replies, "I did. Today I'm taking them to the beach!"