It's almost a ritual.
When I know Dot is going to be away, I make fanciful plans for what food experiments I am going to conduct. These experiments are much easier to conduct when you're not thinking about the central reason why all food should be eaten - to satisfy hunger; as is the case every evening when we get home from work. Also, he does lab-test all my endeavours for me, but it just seems unfair to keep subjecting him to it. So when I learn of Dot's impending travel, my chef brain goes into overdrive. Elaborate lists are made in preparation for evenings filled with mixing, baking, tasting, etc.
I also make very grand plans for how much housework I am going to achieve when I get home from work. Indexing bills, restoring civilsation to the wardrobe, bleach-scrubbing bathroom grout, ....you know, things that you would like to do (or wish they got done by themselves somehow) to validate your domestic goddess status. I like to have it all, thank you very much.
And yet, it happens every single time.
I spend every evening he is away, horizontal on the couch, watching reality TV dross, eating....wait for it........instant noodles. I fall asleep dressed in the same clothes I went to work in, wake up at 1am or thereabouts with a crick in my neck, drag myself upstairs, change (sometimes) and get into bed to continue the sleeping.
Rinse, repeat.
I really must miss him.
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....and that reminds me...I do need to bleach scrub up some bathroom grout! I even have this new pen like thing I've been meaning to try....
@kabes: Does what it say on the pen! Magic! I love it.
haha! yes I too am full of lofty plans for when V is away but I never get round to them. Watching TV and eating junk is the key to boredom and loneliness.
good to see you back in the blog world!
@30in2005:Key to getting out of boredom and loneliness for me. I'm such an escapist. I'm glad to know I'm not alone in the lofty plans department.
@Achala: Thank you. I didn't know you dropped by here. Welcome and it's lovely to see you here too.
Gosh...this explains so much of why my apartment's a mess and I'm usually lying on my couch eating crap.
I have to restore civilisation to the wardrobe once a week at least. Grumble
@Ajith: You're always looking for excuses, you lazy sod.
@Uttara: Will you come over to our house too?
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