 |
| Althea Wiley http://www.thezengun.com |
With Kevin's new job, our schedules have been nearly opposite. I work weekdays and he works weeknights, so when I get home, he's working, and when I'm sleeping, he gets home. The good news is we have Fridays off together, as well as part of Saturday (he gets Saturdays off, and I work my second job on Thursday and Saturday nights, and all day Sunday.) A day and a half off together is not too bad. We're luckier than many couples.
This Friday together we mostly just cleaned the house, something that really needed to happen after two weeks of us taking turns with a nasty head cold. After a few hours of vacuuming, dishes, laundry, dusting, etc., we decided to do NOTHING ELSE and lay on the couch and marathon through Fringe on Netflix. We stopped after a few hours and Kevin made a huge batch of pasta, then we ate that while we continued our TV marathon until we both fell asleep.
Normally, since I don't have many days off, I like to use my days to get things accomplished, but more often than not I stress myself out by cramming everything into one day, then ultimately end up in a corner of the living room, anxiety ridden, because I have not finished even half of what I'd set out to do. But I'm trying to get better at that. Days like this past Friday are much needed sometimes.
Saturday we planned on carving pumpkins before I had to go to work. We'd picked up two fat pumpkins at a local fruit stand in east Olympia the week before, knowing we wouldn't have time to carve them until the following weekend. Saturday morning I got up and gutted my pumpkin and set aside the seeds, but Kevin accidentally slept in too late and I had to leave before we got to his. When I got home that night, I gutted his for him, too, and washed and set out all the seeds to dry. (I really like gutting those things.)
It took 3 days/nights before we got to carving. Sunday after work I roasted my pumpkin seeds, following Angela's (of Oh She Glows) recipe, then Monday and Tuesday just kind of slipped by due to after-work shopping for Halloween props and groceries and spending my evenings prepping a presentation for Friday. After scraping out the little bit of mold that had been growing inside my poor, neglected pumpkin, Kevin stayed up until 3am on Tuesday-going-on-Wednesday, carving these babies:
It only took 11 days (from purchase to carving) to get where we are now. Not bad, right?
Normally, since I don't have many days off, I like to use my days to get things accomplished, but more often than not I stress myself out by cramming everything into one day, then ultimately end up in a corner of the living room, anxiety ridden, because I have not finished even half of what I'd set out to do. But I'm trying to get better at that. Days like this past Friday are much needed sometimes.
Saturday we planned on carving pumpkins before I had to go to work. We'd picked up two fat pumpkins at a local fruit stand in east Olympia the week before, knowing we wouldn't have time to carve them until the following weekend. Saturday morning I got up and gutted my pumpkin and set aside the seeds, but Kevin accidentally slept in too late and I had to leave before we got to his. When I got home that night, I gutted his for him, too, and washed and set out all the seeds to dry. (I really like gutting those things.)
It took 3 days/nights before we got to carving. Sunday after work I roasted my pumpkin seeds, following Angela's (of Oh She Glows) recipe, then Monday and Tuesday just kind of slipped by due to after-work shopping for Halloween props and groceries and spending my evenings prepping a presentation for Friday. After scraping out the little bit of mold that had been growing inside my poor, neglected pumpkin, Kevin stayed up until 3am on Tuesday-going-on-Wednesday, carving these babies:
It only took 11 days (from purchase to carving) to get where we are now. Not bad, right?
No comments:
Post a Comment