I've always thought I'm extremely lazy. I mean, I'm surrounded by busy people, and I never get anything done. I don't feel like I have time for hobbies .. and I'm not even working outside the home.
I've talked to other people who feel the same way, with and without children, with and without careers. But in this last week I've been making a lot of lists and going through them and it's made me question just how lazy I am/we are. Wondering if anyone else out there can relate?
I'm gonna pick on Randy here for a bit ... cause .. well .. he's just so damn easy to pick on! Plus he doesn't read this .. I don't even know if he realizes I write in it cause it's so rare.. so I can probably get away with it. :P
Randy is a busy guy, not lazy at all, his parents instilled in him a very strong need to be busy/need to help out when I can value in him. (They've instilled in his sisters very similar traits that come out in different ways) It's a good trait to have, and one that I've feared that I'm missing. Until this week.
I come home, from whatever it is I've been doing and I can go through the house and make a list of exactly what my super busy boyfriend has been up to, often I can tell in what order and how long even by the amount of stuff that is out of place.
He's got a million jobs on the go (none finished), and is like a hurricane between them all. So I start cleaning up and 20 minutes later when he comes in I'm standing in the middle of the now clean kitchen trying to decide what to make for dinner and I get this raised eyebrow look and a "Dinner isn't cooking yet? I kinda need your help"
But I don't think about the 20 minutes I just spent cleaning up after him and his indoor projects that he's gonna finish later (I fill a diaper box full of tools/materials a week from cleaning up these projects before the baby gets them.) And I rush out the door to help him, only to find that he's not actually working on the truck like he said, or the camper that he was doing earlier or the garage that is next on his list (for that day ... he has no concept of time either lol) He's at the neighbor's helping or at least talking about whatever project the neighbor has on the go. Then since he's there he borrows the lawn mower and tells me to wait just a sec while he cuts the lawn, we have a small yard.. I wait.. stir dinner... come out and hes done. Just gonna take lawn mower back! So I wait... and wait.. then hear the lawn mower fire up. Then come in finish and plate dinner when randy comes home from mowing the neighbor's lawn and says: "Dinner? Umm I was kinda hoping you'd help me with the truck before dinner cause I can't drive it to work tomorrow" So outside I go, but of course he doesn't have the tools ready, so I wait, then he's gotta do this one job before I can help with that job... so I wait. Finally, 20 minutes later I help for 30 seconds with my job and we go in to eat. While eating the neighbour calls him out to borrow something .. he'll be back to eat the rest of his dinner in just a minute, but while out there with the neighbour another friend says he'll be stopping by cause he's bored ... so I clean up again to find out that he's gonna go pick up something with the first neighbour and will be back in an hour to help out the third friend.
So I end up picking up the crap from the 5 outside projects he started, but didn't finish.
And That afternoon I didn't get a single thing of my own done!
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