this is from public-domain-image.com, and it is also the much more awesome me that exists in my imagination
Faithful Blog Readers,
I have been over-committed for the past several days, and I want you to know that I’m brewing a really cool Weeks to Geek post for tomorrow (I hope).
But since I didn’t post yesterday, here’s a semi-serious list of 10 things I miss from my days before child and partner.
10 Things
1. Pooping Alone
2. Chick Flicks, Ben & Jerry’s, and weeping concurrently
3. Only one person’s underwear to wash
4. Binge Drinking
5. Dive Bars with Indie Rock
6. Diminished notion of consequence
7. Fanstasy lovers + vibrator
8. Idealizing love
9. Reading for pleasure
10. No compromise
This made me laugh out loud. You will eventually regain the right to poop alone.
Ha! Jamie. This is your new job. Read my posts and tell me if you laughed. If you did, I add the humor tag.
Thanks… for the bleak outlook.
LOL! Well you begin to not care so much about the binge drinking.
And when she’s older, you can take her WITH you to the dive bars with indie rock. I always took Jess, and have stared down more than one bouncer (and disapproving adult) in my day. But I’m the mother. (And it was cheaper to buy him a ticket than pay a babysitter…and since he’d already demonstrated musical talent, it just seemed like the natural thing to do.) Reading for pleasure is like exercise: you simply have to make time for it, even if it’s the last 15 minutes before you nod off.
I don’t really care about the binge drinking now… I took Child when she was a baby and when she was on the inside (she really liked it if I sat against the vibrating wall at the dive bar… it was the only time she was still). She’s *almost* old enough… gotta wait till her bedtime’s past 8:00 p.m… And yeah–I’ve been working on the reading thing. But it always becomes work because I always blog about it… So I think I just have to change my thinking about blog/work/reading…
I totally agree with numbers 3, 9 and 10.
What, Robin… you don’t miss binge drinking? Surely you jest!
I look forward to pooping alone someday. I think it will be nice:)