Should I do the dishes or write a poem?

[Achebe]

I've actually managed to compose quite a lot of poems while doing the dishes, or in the shower, or watering the garden -- mundane activity frees your mind to wander to very strange places.  

We can't change the repetitive nature of washing dishes... but we can certainly do something about poetry.  And you are.  Make those dishes shine -- reflection is very important

Not to stereotype (but of course, to stereotype), Australians are quite zen about the banality of existence. I think it's the mildness of the climate, and the relative flatness of the country.
Also, no one has been eaten alive by a kangaroo.
Washing dishes is boring, lizziep.
Just ask your kids to do it. After all, they owe you their life.