Listen - I'm usually a dunkin-kinda-gal... (medium french vanilla - skim milk - 2 sugars!) but I'll occasionally hit up Starbucks for a fun treat... (tall green tea latte... or skinny vanilla latte) and each time I visit the green mermaid, the college students (notepads, laptop & highlighters spread out) and the writers (coffee. laptop - usually on facebook or other writers-block-distraction) and the small business owners (calculators, quickbooks open...) catch my eye.
I feel like if I had the attention span, I could be an author. But I hated a certain writing class in highschool mostly because the teacher made us draft. and draft, and re-draft and DRAFT AGAIN. And I like(d) to write off the cuff and edit along the way, and usually my "first draft" IS my final draft...
But today, I'm going to pretend and role-play....
See, I'm sitting at my neighborhood Starbucks - cafe breakfast sandwich half eaten, green tea latte empty, and a cup of yogurt (perfect art tableau for instagram, if I did that kind of stuff! lol) - waiting for my car to be done at the Kia service department (oil change - THOUSANDS of miles overdue - and some recall maintenance... something about anti-corrosive spray they want to put on the undercarriage... which E explained to Button this morning as, "Mommy's car is starting to fall apart, so they want to put this special spray on it." and then as I was later loading kids up in the car, Button said - "Mom. you better drive FAST to that place, your car is going to fall apart!!")
Anyways - I've also been fighting a cold the past two days - I would have called out sick yesterday had the biller/assistantt not already called out, and had I not already scheduled today off. I left work about 1.5 hours early yesterday to get some true rest before picking kiddos up at 5:20.
Well - this morning I packed my laptop (ancient old thing from Inspiron that weighs like 20+ lbs...) and a bottle of water (I ain't paying for that sh*t at starbucks. free water > bougie water) and I've been working for the past hour from Starbucks (which conveniently will make up for yesterday afternoon).
and - well, maybe - now that I've finished with work for the day, maybe I will take a stab at writing! (HA - maybe 5 years from now I'll be the next STephenie Meyer and will be interviewing and be like, "It all started when my car needed service at the Kia dealership!")
But for now - a quick rant from Sunday that I penned while in bed (cathartic to get it out before I even put my feet down for the day! lol):
I believe that, thanks to evolution or some bullshit like that, that men are ingrained -they have it in their fucking CODING to think they get a free pass or pardon from child rearing for 95% of the time.
Because they're the hunter-gatherer or some shit.
Well maybe we need another round of evolution influenced mainly by the (relatively/in the last million years) new thing where mothers are working full time, where they are "hunter-gatherers" too.
I mean- maybe this deep instinctive feature is only in MY husband.
Because he seems to be evolved to a state where, because he's the male - and hunts/gathers a bit extra (his websites and side businesses which - lets be honest are his HOBBIES as well,and earn him $$ thousands $$ - as opposed to scrubbing dirty dishes and washing/ folding load after load of clothes which earn me only whatever money was found in pockets ($25.and it was my own money) ) he expects "his woman" to handle it all.
But then - and here's the real kicker!- he had the nerve, last Sunday after an unusual laid back weekend with us all home , to suggest that we take turns on Sundays- "maybe I'll take them for a few hours so you can 'get your stuff done or do your own thing' and then you take them for a few hours so I can 'do my thing'."
😑
Despite the fact that 'my own thing' would consist of fucking chores, and not sitting around reading and eating bon bons - and 'his own thing' would be his HOBBY which earns him mad money - this is all even MORE ironic because on average, every other weekend I've got both kids with me out shopping or at yoga and lunch - leaving E alone for HOURS.
The IRONY especially is that yesterday, I firstly let him asleep til TEN AM. And then had Button at Walmart from 11 til 2 (Mack slept from 1230-245!!) And then I took them both to a play date/mom date at my friend Dee's house- and we didn't get back until 7:30!!!
How much fucking more of a break do you want???
And do I not deserve one at all? (Even if just to have a chance to wash YOUR dirty clothes and dishes you don't seem to pick up after yourself????)
/end rant
Off to start the next great American novel.
;)
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Oh hell no!! I think that you should create a new hobby. Something that is NOT chore-related. Some sort of exercise or something that will get you out of the house and alone. Writing could also be a good one.
ReplyDeleteI am not an early riser but there is no way I could even fathom of sleeping in until 10am post-kids. If I get to sleep in until 7am that is win for me and my husband. My husband doesn't really ask for a lot of breaks on the weekend because he travels a lot for work but I do head out to walk the dog or he will go grocery shopping. Nothing that happens for hours and hours though.
It's not just your husband. Brian's working crazy hours all the time and that means that I have to be home whenever he's at work. So I'm getting cabin fever like crazy but he still wants to get equal time to rest. Yesterday he guilted me into folding laundry while I was on the phone playing around, you know giving myself a break, and he was like "this is an opportunity to be productive"
ReplyDeleteBULL EFFING SHART.
I have literally been the only one cleaning the entire kitchen regularly - including mopping - because we have a young toddler who, when he's done eating, celebrates by wiping his hands back and forth on the high chair to knock everything that we were feeding him onto the ground. Including bananas and other sticky fruit/food. That stuff doesn't just come off the floor! I freaking scrub!
So yeah, I do that like every other day and he's been watching basketball because ZOMG did you guys know basketball is the most important thing in the world that's ever existed! And it's OK to go to sleep late and make your wife get up with the kids in the MOTN when they're screaming because they literally ripped their toenail off passed the pink part.
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