A glimpse into my life :)
This past weekend was exhausting. I worked the whole holiday weekend – including two 12-hour days! My patience has been low, along with my energy. It has taken everything out of me to get in my runs with Sammy and a little bike riding (long work days aren’t going to deter me from my cross training).
Maz, on the other hand, had a three day weekend AND he gets home at 2:30 everyday! Then why am I doing everything? I just don’t know.
Conversation One:
Me: Can you go to Costco?
Maz: What do you need?
Me: Well, coffee for starters.
Maz: I think you can go a day without coffee.
Me: Yes, I can but I need you to actually run an errand – point blank. Just because I don’t have time to go to Costco today doesn’t mean I will have time tomorrow. Have some freaking confidence; I think you can do a Costco trip on your own.
Later in the day…Maz was showing off his confidence by giving me the details of his shopping trip. The last thing on my mind was how he couldn’t find the mushrooms, so he decided not to get them.
Conversation Two…following another long day for me, while Maz got home at 2:30:
Me: Maz, when you get home early everyday, I really need you to clean up the kitchen and empty your lunch box. I don’t want to see a full lunchbox on that table again (for those of you who don’t already know, Maz takes a lunchbox the size of a carry-on suitcase with him to work everyday).
Maz: Okay, but today I fell asleep.
Me: It’s called a NAP, and I am glad one of us has time for it.
Me (while doing the dishes): Can you take the bathroom trash out & put it in the kitchen trash, then take the kitchen trash out because tomorrow is trash day?
Maz: No response.
Then I start to see movement…Bathroom trash is gone, kitchen trash is gone, BUT there’s no new bag in the kitchen trash can.
Conversation Three…about ONE hour later:
Maz: You know, I took the trash can to the curb; I didn’t just put the house trash in the can.
Me: What, do you want a gold star?
Tags: Costco, Napping, Running Errands
July 8th, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Love it! Not really…I’m aghast; I actually used this “case” in my political economy course by way of demonstrating how hard is is to believe that in the 21st century women still take on so much more of the “house” work.