Yay, you posted! And you used my title! goofy

This is as sweet as I remembered, and I like your edits. Of course, it reminds me of all the FlyLady emails piling up in my in-box... blush I think you're doing much better than I am at that, these days! <g>

But I do like the insight that Lois's parents nit-picked her to death, and she's trying not to repeat that pattern. Perfectionism is sneaky.

PJ
who might just go do some dishes, or something...

"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."

--Stardust, Caroline K