My family has been out of town for the last week. I was really looking forward to having the house to myself! It would almost be living on my own again!
What I wanted to do
• Walk around the house naked
• Not close my door when using battery operated devices
• Walk around the house noisily, at all hours of the night without regard to other people’s need to sleep
• Drink alcohol openly – like a real, live adult who doesn’t live with her religious parents
• Watch even more Law & Order than I normally do (difficult)
• Get myself back track, nutritionally speaking
• Clean my desk
• Organize photo album
• Mail photographs to friends
• Participate in Ubermilf’s Flash Fiction Friday
What I did do
• Walk around the house naked
• Did not close my door while using a battery operated device – only to discover my sister’s friend has stopped by to pick something up (using the garage code – whoops)
• Walked around the house noisily; freaked out the cat
• Drank a bottle of wine
• Kept vodka in the freezer that I didn’t even drink
• Came down with a horrible sinus infection – seriously, my neti pot wouldn’t even work (you’re welcome)
• Watched HELLA Law & Order, yo
• Ate a lot of chicken noodle soup
• Organized my photo album
• Mailed photographs
• Flaked on Ubie’s FFF because I like totally suck and stuff
• Grounded my cat for playing with the riff raff feral cats my next door neighbor feeds (we’ve got foxes in our neighborhood and he refuses to come inside at his curfew – scary)
• Diagnosed my cat as an Emotional Eater (he totally pigged out EVERY time I told him he couldn’t go outside)
• Ate a tomato from the garden
• Weeded and deadheaded the garden
• Took a lot of naps with my cat
• Bought yummy produce at the farmers market
I ended up feeling more lonesome than satisfied with my freedom. I surprised myself by missing my family! No worries, it took less than ten minutes for the irritation to return.
What have you been up to?
You exceeded your goals! You should reward yourself…with some more Law & Order! (is that the show Big from SATC was on? I can’t watch it…I keep waiting for him to say ‘abso-fuckin-lutely’)
I love that you grounded your cat … did it stay in the corner like it was supposed to?
Cool weekend! I LOVE to walk around my apartment naked, but because of the way the building is structured, I get totally paranoid that someone is spying on me.
I thought you should know we have a kid in Baby Singe’s daycare we call Jack Jack. I blame you.
So tell me more about the neck massager incident. A friend came home and you were giving your neck a much needed massage?
The emotional eating feline. LOVE it!!
Equal parts satisfyingly productive stuff and miscellaneous self-indulgent stuff. Good for you!
I had a mostly hermit-like weekend, and I was totally OK with it. But then, I’m a hermit many weekends, so I suppose this is nothing new.
Why would you need privacy to run your clock radio? Oh!
When Mr. A was gone, it was pure bliss. For only two days. Then I start to get all mush pants over him.
I just can’t get into walking around the house naked, even though I live alone. Well, I don’t exactly live alone, I guess…maybe it’s all those crazy feline eyes I don’t want looking at me!
Sounds like you had fun. BBQ this 24th afternoon – come by, bring your swimsuit.
Sounds extremely productive. Naked and all – Jack Jack is an emotional eater. Hello! Too funny.
P.S. Foxes and Coyotes love nothing more than a yummy Siamese under glass. Tell Jack Jack to watch his back.