temporarily single

[kirkcudbright]

Francie left this morning for 10 days in London. We were up before dawn to drive her to the airport shuttle. By the time she was airborne (~8:45), I had done a load of dishes, thoroughly cleaned the kitchen and bathroom, and mopped. If you've only been to our house for parties, you don't know how squalid it can get. There's so much more to do, but I'm rather looking forward to it.

So why the sudden cleaning binge? Partly due to Baitcon, because we're going to have neighbors taking care of the pets this weekend, and squalor is embarassing. Also, being left on my own, the mess is entirely my own responsibility to deal with. Normally, there are always other more pressing things to do, and neither of really owns the housekeeping portion. With Francie gone, I'm taking a couple weeks off aikido, and leaving work early every day to pick up Kylie from camp. It's kind of the opposite of a vacation, but it has the same quality of disrupting my usual habits and patterns, and focusing attention on things I normally don't deal with.

(Leave it to me to get all introspective over house-cleaning...)

Comments

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

You're going to Baitcon!

Well, that answers my question...

[ceo]

I'm the same way. I'm terrible at keeping up with shared responsibilities, but if something is My Responsibility Alone, I'm intensely anal about it.

[veek.livejournal.com]

Me three. It took having the sole responsibility for unpacking, and having it really sink in that it was up to me to do certain things, to net progress. We now have a bedroom. :)

This is something I loved about living alone: it felt like I was procrastinating much less. Either I'd do things or decide to put them off, in which case, no guilt. It's only me, etc.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

i'm offended by your subject line.

[kirkcudbright.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I was thinking about the single-parent aspect, not the unattached aspect.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

np, although if my yesterday had gone as planned, we'd have been taking the kid to the tack shop....which i rather imagined you did anyway.

see you (and kid) on wednesday :)

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

oh, and i shoulda said i was "singularly" offended ;)